The Role of Culture in the Economic Development of Old Industrial Regions
Author: Paul Benneworth
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9783037359686
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A Culture of Growth
Author: Joel Mokyr
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 0691180962
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial Revolution During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much has been made of the details of the Industrial Revolution, what remains a mystery is why it took place at all. Why did this revolution begin in the West and not elsewhere, and why did it continue, leading to today's unprecedented prosperity? In this groundbreaking book, celebrated economic historian Joel Mokyr argues that a culture of growth specific to early modern Europe and the European Enlightenment laid the foundations for the scientific advances and pioneering inventions that would instigate explosive technological and economic development. Bringing together economics, the history of science and technology, and models of cultural evolution, Mokyr demonstrates that culture--the beliefs, values, and preferences in society that are capable of changing behavior--was a deciding factor in societal transformations. Mokyr looks at the period 1500-1700 to show that a politically fragmented Europe fostered a competitive "market for ideas" and a willingness to investigate the secrets of nature. At the same time, a transnational community of brilliant thinkers known as the "Republic of Letters" freely circulated and distributed ideas and writings. This political fragmentation and the supportive intellectual environment explain how the Industrial Revolution happened in Europe but not China, despite similar levels of technology and intellectual activity. In Europe, heterodox and creative thinkers could find sanctuary in other countries and spread their thinking across borders. In contrast, China's version of the Enlightenment remained controlled by the ruling elite. Combining ideas from economics and cultural evolution, A Culture of Growth provides startling reasons for why the foundations of our modern economy were laid in the mere two centuries between Columbus and Newton.
The SAGE Handbook of New Urban Studies
Author: John Hannigan
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2017-05-01
Total Pages: 839
ISBN-13: 1526421615
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The last two decades have been an exciting and richly productive period for debate and academic research on the city. The SAGE Handbook of New Urban Studies offers comprehensive coverage of this modern re-thinking of urban theory, both gathering together the best of what has been achieved so far, and signalling the way to future theoretical insights and empirically grounded research. Featuring many of the top international names in the field, the handbook is divided into nine key sections: SECTION 1: THE GLOBALIZED CITY SECTION 2: URBAN ENTREPRENEURIALISM, BRANDING, GOVERNANCE SECTION 3: MARGINALITY, RISK AND RESILIENCE SECTION 4: SUBURBS AND SUBURBANIZATION: STRATIFICATION, SPRAWL, SUSTAINABILITY SECTION 5: DISTINCTIVE AND VISIBLE CITIES SECTION 6: CREATIVE CITIES SECTION 7: URBANIZATION, URBANITY AND URBAN LIFESTYLES SECTION 8: NEW DIRECTIONS IN URBAN THEORY SECTION 9: URBAN FUTURES This is a central resource for researchers and students of Sociology, Cultural Geography and Urban Studies.
Dealing with Urban and Rural Shrinkage
Author: Gert-Jan Hospers
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2018-01-22
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 3643908229
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →More and more places across the world are confronted with demographic shrinkage. This edited volume discusses how local communities in city and countryside have responded to the challenge of population decline. It is argued that formal strategies based on political and public sector decisions are only one way to deal with shrinkage. Informal adaptation strategies developed by civil society play an important role as well. To illustrate this, the book brings together a variety of theoretical perspectives, case studies and policy lessons from both urban and rural areas. Gert-Jan Hospers is researcher at the University of Twente and Radboud University, the Netherlands. Josefina Syssner is researcher at the Centre for Municipality Studies at Linkoeping University, Sweden.
Regional Economic Development and History
Author: Marijn Molema
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-10-17
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0429818424
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Regional Studies is inextricably intertwined with history. Cultural and institutional legacies inform choices between different policy options, meaning that the past plays a crucial role in how we think about regional economic development, planning and policy. Through a selection of accessible theoretical, methodological and empirical chapters, this book explores the connections between regional development and history. Drawing on the expertise of scholars in several disciplines, it links history to topics such as behavioural geography, interdependence, divergence and regional and urban policy. This innovative book will be of interest to researchers across regional studies, planning, economic geography and economic history.
Regional Innovation Systems and Sustainable Development: Emerging Technologies
Author: Ord¢¤ez de Pablos, Patricia
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2010-08-31
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 1616928484
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The regional development of society and economy are closely related with innovative capacities. As the benefits of Regional information systems in establishing innovative regional planning are more widely recognized, there is a greater demand for a definitive text on the nascent subject. Regional Innovation Systems and Sustainable Development: Emerging Technologies promotes scientific discussion on standards and practices of regional development, while also covering emerging research topics in regional innovation systems and sustained development. A leading source of information from experts in the field, this text demonstrates the capacity of regional innovation systems, information technology, management and sustainable development for the mutual understanding, prosperity and well being of all the citizens in the world.
Regional Culture and Economic Development
Author: Ullrich Kockel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1351905597
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From an interdisciplinary perspective based primarily on European ethnology and political economy, this book explores issues and concepts concerning the link between culture and economy. A historical introduction to key theoretical problems is followed by five empirical chapters discussing aspects of development in rural as well as urban locations. The author considers local leadership, looking in particular at part-time farming, counter-urban migration, and pluriactivity. The classification of informal economy is illustrated with examples drawn from fieldwork, and urban poverty and migration are each explored in detail. A discussion of heritage and identity as a resource for development questions whether the concern with the authenticity of culture(s) may be an inappropriate approach to take. The book concludes with a theoretical reflection on the problematic of culture and economy and a call for a return to the roots of European ethnology as an essentially political science.
Shrinking Cities
Author: Harry W. Richardson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-03-14
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1136162097
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines a rapidly emerging new topic in urban settlement patterns: the role of shrinking cities. Much coverage is given to declining fertility rates, ageing populations and economic restructuring as the factors behind shrinking cities, but there is also reference to resource depletion, the demise of single-company towns and the micro-location of environmental hazards. The contributions show that shrinkage can occur at any scale – from neighbourhood to macro-region - and they consider whether shrinkage of metropolitan areas as a whole may be a future trend. Also addressed in this volume is the question of whether urban shrinkage policies are necessary or effective. The book comprises four parts: world or regional issues (with reference to the European Union and Latin America); national case studies (the United States, India, China, Korea, Taiwan, Germany, Romania and Estonia); city case studies (Detroit, Buffalo, Cleveland, Naples, Belfast and Halle); and broad issues such as the environmental consequences of shrinking cities. This book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners working in the fields of urban studies, economic geography and public policy.
Breaking Down the Barriers to Growth
Author: John Harrison
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →While explosive industrial growth in the nineteenth century placed Manchester as the manufacturing centre of the British Empire, and Liverpool as the distributive hub to the colonial trading world, both cities experienced remarkable socioeconomic decline in the post-war period resulting from their institutional 'lock in' to outdated industrial infrastructures. Today, however, both cities are experiencing a strong renaissance that bears has a great deal to do with the dynamic properties of culture. In the first instance, the paper highlights the important role that culture played, alongside political restructuring in the 1980s, to enable Manchester to break free from its institutional 'lock in' and to gain competitive advantage in the post-industrial global marketplace. Contrasting this, the paper then goes on to argue that while culture enabled Manchester to break-free from its own institutional 'lock in', Liverpool in the 1980s remained 'locked in' to its outdated institutional arrangements because the cities culture actively prevented change. What becomes interesting from the tales of these two cities is that in the last ten years Liverpool has opened up to the potential of building up its cultural capital. Indeed, where Manchester's renaissance was highlighted through the 2002 Commonwealth Games, Liverpool's remarkable economic upturn has led to its status as European Capital of Culture for 2008. As such, this paper argues that there are important lessons to be learnt from these two contrasting tales of renaissance in England's Northwest region.
The Creative Capital of Cities
Author: Stefan Krätke
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2011-10-17
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1444336223
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book challenges the new urban growth concepts of the creative class and creative industries from a critical urban theory perspective. Critiques Richard Florida's popular books about cities and the creative class Presents an alternative approach based on analyses of empirical research data concerning the German urban system and the case study regions, Hanover and Berlin Underscores that the culture industry takes a leading role in conforming with neoliberal conceptions of labor markets
