The Changing Space Economy of City-Regions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Changing Space Economy of City-Regions write by Koech Cheruiyot. This book was released on 2017-10-30. The Changing Space Economy of City-Regions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book addresses the South African Space Economy and its stark disparities and dualisms through an assessment of the Gauteng City-Region – the largest economic agglomeration in the country and on a continent bedevilled by a myriad of development challenges. The book’s focus on understanding the overall character of Gauteng City-Region’s Space Economy – through data mining/analysis and mapping – comprehensively supplements the Space Economy literature on the region. It covers the disparities exacerbated by an overlay of apartheid planning ideology and top-down regional development based on selective encouragement of manufacturing investments in growth points or poles and how implementation of past policies intended to cure these disparities have yielded mixed results. This book further offers the Gauteng City-Region as a microcosm of the national economy in the form of evident significant placed-based variations in the intensity and character of economic structure that on the one hand enjoys massive agglomeration economies, while on the other, has high levels of poverty and large numbers of people living below the Minimum Living Level. This book should appeal to urban studies specialists, economists and development studies researchers in the Global South.
The Spatial Economy
The Spatial Economy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Spatial Economy write by Masahisa Fujita. This book was released on 2001-07-27. The Spatial Economy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The authors show how a common approach that emphasizes the three-way interaction among increasing returns, transportation costs, and the movement of productive factors can be applied to a wide range of issues in urban, regional, and international economics. Since 1990 there has been a renaissance of theoretical and empirical work on the spatial aspects of the economy—that is, where economic activity occurs and why. Using new tools—in particular, modeling techniques developed to analyze industrial organization, international trade, and economic growth—this "new economic geography" has emerged as one of the most exciting areas of contemporary economics. The authors show how seemingly disparate models reflect a few basic themes, and in so doing they develop a common "grammar" for discussing a variety of issues. They show how a common approach that emphasizes the three-way interaction among increasing returns, transportation costs, and the movement of productive factors can be applied to a wide range of issues in urban, regional, and international economics. This book is the first to provide a sound and unified explanation of the existence of large economic agglomerations at various spatial scales.
Society, the City, and the Space-economy of Urbanism
Society, the City, and the Space-economy of Urbanism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Society, the City, and the Space-economy of Urbanism write by David Harvey. This book was released on 1972. Society, the City, and the Space-economy of Urbanism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Location and Space-economy
Location and Space-economy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Location and Space-economy write by Walter Isard. This book was released on 1956. Location and Space-economy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Keys to the City
Keys to the City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Keys to the City write by Michael Storper. This book was released on 2013-07-21. Keys to the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why do some cities grow economically while others decline? Why do some show sustained economic performance while others cycle up and down? In Keys to the City, Michael Storper, one of the world's leading economic geographers, looks at why we should consider economic development issues within a regional context--at the level of the city-region--and why city economies develop unequally. Storper identifies four contexts that shape urban economic development: economic, institutional, innovational and interactional, and political. The book explores how these contexts operate and how they interact, leading to developmental success in some regions and failure in others. Demonstrating that the global economy is increasingly driven by its major cities, the keys to the city are the keys to global development. In his conclusion, Storper specifies eight rules of economic development targeted at policymakers. Keys to the City explains why economists, sociologists, and political scientists should take geography seriously.
