[Introduction] Leipzig's urban development has been subject to serious, not to say extreme, changes in terms of shrinkage and growth over the past three decades. These had a strong impact on the housing market, which was first very tight and then (very) relaxed for some time. In recent years it...

Institutional weaknesses limit the capacity of local governments to support efficient urbanization in developing countries. They also lead to the emergence of large developers with the clout to build entire cities. This paper analyzes the urbanization process when local governments are weak and...

African cities are growing at an extraordinary rate. Unfortunately, many cities are growing so fast that national, provincial, and city governments cannot manage how they develop or assure the provision of the services people need. This has many negative consequences for national and city...

The creative services sector plays an important and constantly growing role in the modern economy. This publication presents the results of extensive research on the functioning of the creative sector in Polish cities, conducted on a representative sample of 287 cities located throughout Poland....

Since the establishment of the partnership principle within EU regional policy in 1988, the role of cities in the European multi-level governance system has been progressively strengthened. Today, the cities of Europe are central actors with key functions in the implementation of EU regional...

Leipzig’s urban development has been subject to serious, not to say extreme, changes in terms of shrinkage and growth over the past three decades. These had a strong impact on the housing market, which was first very tight and then (very) relaxed for some time. In recent years it has tightened...

Purpose: Bring to light the risks of smart cities and the perspectives of their management. It has been discovered that smart cities are created and developed under the impact of not only technological factors but also social factors. The connection between smart cities and quality of life is...

Institutional weaknesses limit the capacity of local governments to support efficient urbanization in developing countries. They also lead to the emergence of large developers with the clout to build entire cities. This paper analyzes the urbanization process when local governments are weak and...

African cities are growing at an extraordinary rate. Unfortunately, many cities are growing so fast that national, provincial, and city governments cannot manage how they develop or assure the provision of the services people need. This has many negative consequences for national and city...

Welche Rolle spielen Belange der Ressourcenschonung in der Stadt- und Infrastrukturentwicklung? Wo liegen geeignete Handlungsfelder, vielversprechende Potentiale und was sind zentrale Stellschrauben zur Stärkung dieses Umweltaspekts in der kommunalen Planungspraxis? Dieses Hintergrundpapier...

Kleinstädte befinden sich in einer systematischen Aufmerksamkeitslücke der Raum- und Sozialwissenschaften. Stereotype Vorstellungen über "die" Kleinstadt konnten sich so seit Langem relativ unhinterfragt halten. Was wissen wir über Kleinstädte - und was nicht? In diesem Kompendium wird die...

Der Beitrag reflektiert bedarfsgerechte Stadtplanung und aktivierende Stadtentwicklung von Kleinstädten aus der Praxisperspektive einer Bürgermeisterin. Es werden die Voraussetzungen, die Akteure sowie das (finanzielle) Anreizsystem der Stadtplanung ebenso diskutiert wie aktivierende...

Digitalisierung ist ein Schlagwort, ein Leitmotiv in Stadtentwicklungsstrategien sowie ein Megatrend. Sie schreitet voran und betrifft alle Arbeits- und Lebensbereiche, somit auch die Stadtentwicklung. Dabei ist jedoch die Kleinstadt nicht explizit Gegenstand der raumwissenschaftlichen...

Die transdisziplinäre Schnittstelle zwischen Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft wird im Reallaboransatz als Potenzial für die Erzeugung von Transformationswissen angesehen. Gleichzeitig gibt es offene Fragen bei der methodischen Umsetzung, denen in diesem Beitrag mit Erkenntnissen über...

Die Wanderungen und Wohnbedürfnisse junger Erwachsener spielen im Kontext der Reurbanisierungsdebatte eine bedeutende Rolle. Regelmäßig werden sie als eine Hauptträgergruppe der Reurbanisierung identifiziert, wobei Studierende für viele Städte von besonderer Bedeutung sind. Die Befunde...

Vielfältige lokale Ökonomien sind ein zentraler Faktor für das Gelingen von Nachhaltigkeitstransformationen auf kommunaler Ebene. Doch gerade die heterogenen Strukturen inhabergeführter, ortsansässiger (Klein‑)Betriebe scheinen in ihrer Existenz von voranschreitenden überregionalen...

Eine Urbane Produktion gehört zu den konstitutiven Merkmalen einer Großstadt. Dies betrifft auch die Stadt Bremen, die eine wechselhafte Industriegeschichte aufweist. In einem Forschungsvorhaben des iaw wurden neue Formen der Urbanen Produktion mit Blick auf die Ausgangslage und...

In the 2019 Government Work Report of The State Council, Prime Minister of the People‟s Republic of China, Li Keqiang, stressed the need to “promote coordinated regional development and improve the quality of new-type urbanization.” The Government Work Report of The State Council in May...

We studied Malaysia’s ability to achieve its climate goal amidst high rate of entrepreneurial activities and influx of people from rural to urban cities (urbanization) due to massive and prospective economic activities in the cities. We investigate the impact of urbanization, entrepreneurial...

The main aim of this paper is to analyze the security, privacy, and risks in intelligent smart cities in the context of smart cities engagement. One of Smart City Technologies' aims is to collect data to evaluate people's and activities' real-time awareness and to provide decision-makers with...

Urban economies are often heavily reliant on a small number of dominant industries, leaving them vulnerable to negative industry-specific shocks. This paper analyzes the long-run impacts of one such event: the large, temporary, and industry-specific shock to the British cotton textile industry...

This paper examines the productivity (and wage) gains from locating in dense, urban environments. We distinguish between three potential explanations of why firms are willing to pay urban workers more: (1) the urban wage premium is spurious and is the result of omitted ability measures, (2) the...

Using extensive data on 1970 and 1987 urban characteristics, the paper analyzes changes in employment in specific manufacturing industries in cities between 1970 and 1987. Two sets of questions are the focus. First, what present or past characteristics of a city's economic environment are...

The paper is concerned with the formation of polycentric cities. The model we introduce includes two types of developers and planning authorities. Developers’ characteristics, such as scale of operations, availability of own-capital and time preferences lead to various decisions concerning the...

Sustainable development may safely be regarded as a cornerstone of cities’ engagement with international law, an engagement which is certainly bound to increase in the time of COVID-19. This article revisits the historical trajectory of cities’ and local governments’ participation in...

The United States transformed itself from a rural to an urban society over the last three centuries. After a century of unremarkable growth, the pace of urbanization was historically unprecedented between the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the twentieth century, the urban...

When tax incentives are designed in ways that create opportunities for nonprofits to participate in investments, a wide variety of mission-driven investments can be supported. This Essay has analyzes nonprofit participation in the New Markets Tax Credit program in order to gain insights to the...

Residential development is a dynamic process, as changes in housing stock vary substantially over space and time. These spatiotemporal dynamics are expected to differ in various hierarchical levels of urban areas. Urban cores, peri-urban areas and predominantly rural areas are likely to...

In a recent paper Czamanski and Roth (2011) demonstrated that because the profitability of construction projects is influenced by variations in the time incidence of costs and revenues, despite of declining willingness-to-pay and land gradients with distance from central business districts,...

Why are some countries in sub-Saharan Africa more prone to outbreaks of urban protests than others? Drawing together insights from the contentious politics and conflict studies literatures I develop an empirical model of protest incidence comprised of basic demographic, political and economic...

The urbanization and megalopolis have deteriorated traffic concerns, energy crisis and carbon pollution. In this study, a flexible-possibilist chanced constraints programming (FCCP) model is developed to plan the energy-transportation systems at a metropolitan scale (METS), which have multiple...

What are the traits of a good local leader? While most studies of local officials focus on the mayors of large cities, 85% of municipalities in the U.S. have a population of less than 20,000. We conduct in-depth phone interviews with nearly 300 mayors and city managers from predominantly small...

This paper studies how limitations on land suitable for development affect within-city variation in urban density and its three components: crowding, residential coverage, and building height. We use the high variation in geographical obstacles − such as steep land slopes and the presence of...

City tourism is considered as one of the fastest growing travel segments worldwide, and one of the most important tourist patterns that can bring substantial benefits to cities, the main purposes of this research are: promoting the pattern of city tourism in Alexandria city to be a tourist...

Culture permeates even the most imposing industrial building. Driven by global city making, city leaders see culture as a key to bolstering a new economy and to dealing with decayed urban sites. However, regional practices of creating creative strategies differ, as actors are not ‘‘dancing...

Cities are made of people, by people and for people. Sustainable measures will have to make sense to inhabitants of cities, making their life more liveable. Furthermore, it is people who drive sustainability and who are its ultimate source and beneficiaries. This vision underpins the notion of...

Over the last thirty years, China's major cities have experienced significant income and population growth. Much of this growth has been fueled by urban production spurred by world demand. Using a unique cross-city panel data set, we test several hypotheses concerning the relationship between...

The importance of the creative and cultural capital in the economic development of postindustrial inner cities has been widely demonstrated by urban development literature as it interacts with the physical environment and sustains regeneration processes. However, also in depressed and peripheral...

By drawing from every corner of the world and every academic discipline that could implicate cities, City, State: Constitutionalism and the Megacity does a praiseworthy job of calling out the constitutional silence of cities and making a case for their enhanced constitutional standing. There is...

In the last decade, most states have targeted certain depressed areas for revitalization by providing a combination of labor and capital tax incentives to firms operating in the "enterprise zone" (EZ). Despite the large number of state initiatives, and the frequent re-introduction of federal EZ...