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Knowledge Management for Regional Policymaking
The present publication focusses the attention on new avenues in regional information and knowledge management, while we will zoom in particularly on the potential promises and hurdles of digital technology. This digital challenge has already generated a wealth of implications in the area of smart or intelligent cities, but as yet far less has been achieved in the field of regional planning and regional science. There is clearly a need for a more systematic and wide-ranging assessment and presentation of emerging approaches and concepts in this field, for instance, in regard to principles (e.g. geographic rule modeling), methodologies (e.g. blockchain systems), data analytics (e.g. machine l...
Housing Governance in a Time of Financialization
In recent years, the financialization of housing has become a major challenge to many cities across the globe, not the least because it tends to favor the interests of global finance over the needs of residents. Based on three case studies in the city regions of Zurich, Birmingham and Lyon, the present investigation analyzes the interplay of housing governance and policies over the past 20 years against the backdrop of the financialization of housing.
Inequality and Governance in the Metropolis
This book undertakes the first systematic, multi-country investigation into how regimes of place equality, consisting of multilevel policies, institutions and governance at multiple scales, influence spatial inequality in metropolitan regions. Extended, diversified metropolitan regions have become the dominant form of human settlement, and disparities among metropolitan places figure increasingly in wider trends toward growing inequality. Regimes of place equality are increasingly critical components of welfare states and territorial administration. They can aggravate disparities in services and taxes, or mitigate and compensate for local differences. The volume examines these regimes in a global sample of eleven democracies, including developed and developing countries on five continents. The analyses reveal new dimensions of efforts to grapple with growing inequality around the world, and a variety of institutional blueprints to address one of the most daunting challenges of twenty-first century governance.
Mobilités : changer de modèle
Les mobilités sont l’un des premiers facteurs d’émissions de gaz à effet de serre en France. La crise des Gilets jaunes a cependant montré que décarboner les mobilités nécessite de prendre en compte les différences de situations. Quels sont les enjeux territoriaux et sociaux des mobilités ? Comment décarboner les déplacements de manière équitable ? Combien cela coûtera-t-il et qui paiera ? Comment compenser pour les plus fragiles ? Quels impacts sur la gouvernance publique ? Telles sont les questions auxquelles ce livre essaie de répondre en analysant précisément les enjeux et en déconstruisant les simplismes en vogue. Parvenir à une neutralité carbone est un challeng...
Métropolisation et ségrégation
La métropolisation est traditionnellement analysée comme un processus de concentration des fonctions supérieures de commandement et de contrôle favorable aux très grandes villes, perçues comme les fers-de-lance de l'efficacité économique et de la compétitivité dans le contexte de la mondialisation. Les métropoles sont toutefois également des lieux privilégiés d'exacerbation des tensions sociales et de leur cristallisation par la ségrégation urbaine. Cet ouvrage se propose d'analyser et d'illustrer les interactions et les tensions qui se nouent entre métropolisation et ségrégation. Il rassemble des contributions de chercheurs spécialisés en économie urbaine ainsi qu'en ...
Écologie et cultures populaires
Paul Ariès livre une théorie à contre-courant et pourtant réaliste : les plus écolos ne sont pas ceux que l'on croit ! Ce livre est d’abord un coup de gueule contre l’idée selon laquelle il n’y aurait rien de bon à attendre des milieux populaires au regard de la situation écologique. Les élites auraient donc raison : « Salauds de pauvres qui consommez si mal ! ». Ce discours discriminant est susceptible de contaminer ceux qui à gauche se disent les plus conscients des enjeux planétaires et sociaux. Pourtant tous les indicateurs prouvent que les milieux populaires ont un meilleur bilan carbone, une meilleure empreinte écologique que les milieux aisés, y compris quand ces ...
Demokratisch - gerecht - nachhaltig
"Die Sozial-Ökologie bringt eine großartige Hoffnungsbotschaft mit sich: Unsere Gesellschaften werden gerechter sein, wenn sie nachhaltiger sind, und nachhaltiger, wenn sie gerechter sind." Ökologische Fragen, meint der französische Wirtschaftswissenschaftler Éloi Laurent, seien immer auch soziale Fragen, und deshalb könnten Umweltprobleme in Zukunft nur noch mittels einschneidender gesellschaftlicher Veränderungen gelöst werden. Die Gesellschaften der einzelnen Länder, Europas und der ganzen Welt sind längst im Zerreißen begriffen und die sich weiter öffnende Reichtumsschere spielt in den ökologischen Krisen der Gegenwart eine immer gewichtigere Rolle. Deshalb hält Laurent die Aufwertung demokratischer Rechte für das wichtigste Mittel, um gegen ökologische Katastrophen anzukämpfen. Kenntnis- und faktenreich setzt sich Laurent mit den aktuellen wirtschaftlichen Entwicklungen und den jüngsten "Umweltkatastrophen" auseinander: die Erdbeben in Sichuan und Haiti, Hurrikan Katrina. Und er zeigt anhand von Beispielen aus der Vergangenheit und Gegenwart auf - UdSSR, USA, China -, wie eng Demokratisierung und Nachhaltigkeit aufeinander wirken (könnten).
Sustainable Mobility in Metropolitan Regions
This book is focussing on the results of the mobil.LAB Doctoral Research Group “Sustainable mobility in the metropolitan region of Munich” for its first phase. It highlights the key findings of young scientists from diverse disciplines on selected issues of sustainable mobility, such as neighbourhood mobility, sustainable modes, regional governance and spatial aspects. This includes insights of methods used to assess sustainable mobility, the way how to study and how to conceptualize sustainable development in each of the contributions. Each chapter is built on case studies in cooperation with practice partners and based on empirical data in the metropolitan region of Munich. Moreover, a common understanding of sustainable mobility in metropolitan regions and future research perspectives on mobility cultures are developed. In consequence, the knowledge and experiences are shared in order to generate strategies and actions to address, promote and support sustainable mobility in metropolitan regions.
Residential Location Choice
The effective planning of residential location choices is one of the great challenges of contemporary societies and requires forecasting capabilities and the consideration of complex interdependencies which can only be handled by complex computer models. This book presents a range of approaches used to model residential locations within the context of developing land-use and transport models. These approaches illustrate the range of choices that modellers have to make in order to represent residential choice behaviour. The models presented in this book represent the state-of-the-art and are valuable both as key building blocks for general urban models, and as representative examples of complexity science.
The Tourist Gaze
This Second Edition deepens our understanding of how the tourist gaze orders and regulates the relationship with the tourist environment, demarcating the "other" and identifying the "out-of-the-ordinary." It elucidates the relationship between tourism and embodiment and elaborates on the connections between mobility as a mark of modern and postmodern experience and the attraction of tourism as a lifestyle choice. The result is a book that builds on the proven strengths of the First Edition and revitalizes the argument to address the needs of researchers and students in the new century.
