As Europe’s current economic crisis continues many households are developing new coping strategies in response to the pressures of everyday life. This paper explores such practices within Birmingham’s Castle Vale housing estate, drawing on the increasing engagement within the social sciences...

Cet article confronte la notion de mutabilité à celle de durabilité au travers de l’analyse des transformations des territoires urbains en France et en Suisse. Il analyse les positionnements antagonistes, convergents, ou synonymes, inhérents aux interactions entre ces deux champs de...

This paper discusses the role played by the cultural regeneration of a tobacco factory known as <italic>La Friche</italic> in the urban renaissance of Marseille. It builds an analytical framework to decrypt the extent to which the network and strategy building, the mobilization capacity and the project-making...

A<sc>ndres</sc> L. and C<sc>hapain</sc> C. The integration of cultural and creative industries into local and regional development strategies in Birmingham and Marseille: towards an inclusive and collaborative governance?, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This paper explores the nature of the integration mechanisms of cultural...

Our paper aims to analyze the economic and urban changes undertook by French and Swiss cities and stressed in the two concepts of sustainability and changeability (?mutabilité? in French). Its goal is to assess how these two concepts can be opposite, convergent or synonymous when they relate to...

Drawing upon collaborative planning theory and on the work of Lefebvre and de Certeau, this paper explores the multistage governance arrangements leading to the employment of temporary uses as an instrument for regeneration in a context of economic crisis. It contributes to a thorough...

Few studies exist of the role of business and professional services (BPS) in second city regions that have experienced significant levels of deindustrialisation. The case for enhancing our understanding of the dynamics of BPS firms in the economy of a second city suggests that it is timely to...

This timely and fascinating book illustrates how applied geography can contribute in a multitude of ways to assist policy processes, evaluate public programs, enhance business decisions, and contribute to formulating solutions for community-level problems.

What is built and where it is built is largely determined by the activities and perceptions of global investment capital. Comparatively limited work has been undertaken into the property markets of regional cities as well as into the process of building obsolescence, refurbishment and...

Energy is a critical input for production industries. As production becomes increasingly fragmented the management of inputs along the supply chain is a significant factor to stability and the competitiveness of the individual firm and the wider chain. Sustainable supply systems will require...