Following the inauguration of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, designed by the star architect Frank Gehry, numerous cities have developed star architecture projects that try to emulate the 'Bilbao Effect' in the hope of triggering positive impacts for tourism and socio-economic development....

Die Agglomeration ist eine Verdichtung von Unternehmen, Bevölkerung, Infrastrukturen und Interaktionsmöglichkeiten. Die Agglomeration bietet räumliche Nähe zu anderen Akteuren und schafft häufig positive Verstärkungseffekte. Durch die zunehmend wichtigere Rolle der wissensbasierten...

Transport accessibility is an important location factor for households and firms. In the last few decades, technological and social developments have contributed to a reinvigorated role of passenger transport. However, rail accessibility is unevenly distributed in space. The introduction of...

Corporate strategies and decisions concerning location, such as outsourcing of individual production processes, have an impact on the volume of freight traffic. Due to concentration of core competences, new logistics trends, growing importance of services and liberalization of markets, corporate...

Regional development, and crossborder cooperation in particular, needs feedbacks on the impacts of public policies. Policy evaluation is one appropriate tool. The ?hidden hypothesis'- approach is characterized by two elements: (1) an emphasis on the invisible goals of an evaluated programme or...