Transitions in Regional Economic Development

At a time of extraordinary challenges confronting the world, this book analyses some of the profound changes occurring in the development of cities and regions. It discusses the uncertainties associated with the stalling of hyper-globalization and asks whether this creates opportunities for resurgent regional economies driven by local capabilities, resource efficiencies and domestic production. Theory and evidence on socio-economic and environmental transitions underway in many regions are brought together. Implications of the shifting balance of global power towards emerging economies in the East are explored, along with the consequences of urbanization in the global South for politics and democracy. Dilemmas surrounding migration are also discussed, including whether incomers displace local workers and depress wages, or bring benefits in the form of know-how, new technology and investment. More integrative concepts of the region and theories of regional development are analysed, recognising the role of human capital, knowledge, innovation, finance, infrastructure and institutions. This was originally published as a special issue of Regional Studies.

Global reversal, regional revival? Ivan Turok, David Bailey, Jennifer Clark, Jun Du, Ugo Fratesi, Michael Fritsch, John Harrison, Tom Kemeny, Dieter Kogler, Arnoud Lagendijk, Tomasz Mickiewicz, Ernest Miguelez, Stefano Usai and Fiona Wishlade Contesting European regions Michael Keating Foregrounding the region Anssi Paasi and Jonathan Metzger Towards a theory of regional diversification: combining insights from Evolutionary Economic Geography and Transition Studies Ron Boschma, Lars Coenen, Koen Frenken and Bernhard Truffer Shifting horizons in local and regional development Andy Pike, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and John Tomaney Transforming cities: does urbanization promote democratic change? Edward L. Glaeser and Bryce Millett Steinberg Uneven and combined development Michael Dunford and Weidong Liu The city as innovation machine Richard Florida, Patrick Adler and Charlotta Mellander Global investments and regional development trajectories: the missing links Riccardo Crescenzi and Simona Iammarino Geographical linkages in the financial services industry: a dialogue with organizational studies Eric Knight and Dariusz Wójcik The interregional migration of human capital and its regional consequences: a review Alessandra Faggian, Isha Rajbhandari and Kathryn R. Dotzel Can transport infrastructure change regions’ economic fortunes? Some evidence from Europe and China Chia-Lin Chen and Roger Vickerman Future green economies and regional development: a research agenda David Gibbs and Kirstie O’Neill Analysing the regional geography of poverty, austerity and inequality in Europe: a human cartographic perspective Dimitris Ballas, Danny Dorling and Benjamin Hennig

Ivan Turok is Executive Director, Economic Performance and Development Unit, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa; Honorary Professor, Universities of Cape Town and Glasgow David Bailey isProfessor of Industrial Strategy, Economics & Strategy Group, Aston University, UK Jennifer Clark is Associate Professor of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Jun Du is Professor of Economics, Economics & Strategy Group, Aston Business School, Aston University, UK Ugo Fratesi is Associate Professor of Regional Economics, Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy Michael Fritsch is Professor of Economics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany John Harrison is Reader in Human Geography, Department of Geography, Loughborough University, UK Tom Kemeny is Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Southampton, UK Dieter Kogler is Lecturer in Economic Geography, University College Dublin, Ireland Arnoud Lagendijk is Professor of Economic Geography, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Tomasz Mickiewicz is Professor of Economics, Aston University, Birmingham, UK Ernest Miguelezis Junior Researcher, CNRS, GREThA-University of Bordeaux, France Stefano Usai is Director, Centre for North South Economic Research (CRENoS), University of Cagliari, Italy Fiona Wishlade is Director, European Policies Research Centre, University of Strathclyde, Scotland