Overview
Focusing on the strategic position of towns in rural development, this book explores how they act as hotspots for knowledge creation, diffusion for vital business life and innovation, and social networks and community bonds. By doing so, towns - even the smallest - can cope with processes of socio-economic decline and promote a geographically balanced income distribution and sustainable production structure. The contributors to this volume examine how to take advantage of the great potential offered by urban areas in the rural world to favour competitiveness and encourage economic activity. Taking a European perspective, the authors identify the main socio-economic advantages generated by urbanized population settlements that small and medium-sized rural towns can provide. Although much attention is currently focused on the efficient use of scarce natural resources and land, they argue that towns have an increasingly important economic and social role to play in rural areas.
Full Product Details
Author: Teresa de Noronha Vaz ,
Eveline van Leeuwen ,
Peter Nijkamp ,
Professor Peter Nijkamp
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.861kg
ISBN: 9781409406921
ISBN 10: 140940692
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 26 July 2013
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'It sometimes seems that world cities capture all the limelight in our mediatized world. By focusing on small cities, towns, and villages, this book is a refreshing departure from this oppressing trend. This impressive collection of seventeen original contributions on an array of socio-economic facets of towns and small cities by scholars from across Europe reaffirms that small may be beautiful and that balanced urban development is crucial to sustainable futures.'Jean-Claude Thill, University of North Carolina, USA
Author Information
Teresa de Noronha Vaz is professor of Economics of Innovation at the University of Algarve, Portugal and director of the Research Centre for Spatial and Organizational Dynamics. Eveline van Leeuwen is an assistant professor in Regional Economics at the Department of Spatial Economics of the VU University Amsterdam. Peter Nijkamp is professor in regional and urban economics and in economic geography at the VU University, Amsterdam. Teresa de Noronha Vaz, Peter Nijkamp, Eveline van Leeuwen, Waldemar Ratajczak, Jenny Grek, Charlie Karlsson, Johan Klaesson, Jose Antonio Porfirio, Jose Luis Navarro Espigares, Jose Antonio Camacho Ballesta, Ana Paula Barreira, Helen Lawton Smith, John Glasson Tomaz P. Dentinho, Rita D. Coelho, J. Dias Coelho, Clive Winters, John Dodd, Keith Harrison, Anca Dachin, Daniela L. Constantin, Zizi Goschin, Fernando P. Fonseca, Rui A.R. Ramos, Emilia Malcata Rebelo, Aliye Ahu Akgun, Tuzin Baycan, Zbigniew Florianczyk, Adam Wasilewski, Claudia Chlebek, Segolene Darly, Andre Torre.
