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This Could Be the Start of Something Big
For nearly two decades, progressives have been dismayed by the steady rise of the right in U.S. politics. Often lost in the gloom and doom about American politics is a striking and sometimes underanalyzed phenomenon: the resurgence of progressive politics and movements at a local level. Across the country, urban coalitions, including labor, faith groups, and community-based organizations, have come together to support living wage laws and fight for transit policies that can move the needle on issues of working poverty. Just as striking as the rise of this progressive resurgence has been its reception among unlikely allies. In places as diverse as Chicago, Atlanta, and San Jose, the usual business resistance to pro-equity policies has changed, particularly when it comes to issues like affordable housing and more efficient transportation systems. To see this change and its possibilities requires that we recognize a new thread running through many local efforts: a perspective and politics that emphasizes \"regional equity.\"
Manuel Pastor Jr., Chris Benner, and Martha Matsuoka offer their analysis with an eye toward evaluating what has and has not worked in various campaigns to achieve regional equity. The authors show how momentum is building as new policies addressing regional infrastructure, housing, and workforce development bring together business and community groups who share a common desire to see their city and region succeed. Drawing on a wealth of case studies as well as their own experience in the field, Pastor, Benner, and Matsuoka point out the promise and pitfalls of this new approach, concluding that what they term social movement regionalism might offer an important contribution to the revitalization of progressive politics in America.
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Urban and regional planning
\"This is the sixth edition of the classic text for students of urban and regional planning. It gives a historical overview of the developments and changes in the theory and practice of planning throughout the entire 20th and first part of the 21st centuries. The extensively revised edition incorporates the most important developments in recent times: debates on economic rebalancing and national infrastructure including high speed rail, energy, millennium projects, Celtic devolution, European influence, impact of London on nation. A new chapter \"Planning for cities and city regions 1990-2017\": includes new material on housing, localism, neighbourhood planning, privatisation, city modernism, reform, Devo and city deals and metro mayors. Urban and Regional Planning will be invaluable to undergraduate as well as postgraduate Planning students. It will prove useful in a variety of built environment areas such as Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Real Estate where planning is taught\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhancing the resilience of regional digital innovation ecosystems: a pathway analysis from the lens of resource orchestration theory
Enhancing the resilience of regional digital innovation ecosystems represents an effective strategy for managing risky shocks and fostering sustainable regional development. This study investigates the regional digital innovation ecosystems in 30 provinces and cities across China. Grounded in resource orchestration theory, this research employs the fsQCA method to examine the configuration paths through which traditional and digital resources and capabilities contribute to the resilience of these ecosystems. By developing an evaluative framework for the resilience of regional digital innovation ecosystems, this study reveals a fluctuating upward trend in resilience across China’s regions, albeit with slow improvement rates and uneven development. The fsQCA identifies six configurational paths that bolster ecosystem resilience, categorized into two types: Technology Innovation-Digital Platforms and Financial-Physical Dominant. Furthermore, the paper highlights insufficient technological innovation capacity and imperfect digital governance as critical barriers to strengthening the resilience of regional digital innovation ecosystems. This research improves the evaluative framework for resilience in regional digital innovation ecosystems and extends the application of resource orchestration theory to the domain of resilience. The findings offer significant theoretical and practical insights into how regions can utilize both traditional and digital resources and capabilities to reinforce the resilience of their digital innovation ecosystems.
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Three revolutions : steering automated, shared, and electric vehicles to a better future
For the first time in half a century, real transformative innovations are coming to our world of passenger transportation.The convergence of new shared mobility services with automated and electric vehicles promises to significantly reshape our lives and communities for the better--or for the worse.
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The planner's use of information
\"For more than 35 years, planners have depended on The Planner's Use of Information to help them address their information needs. While the ability to manage complex information skilfully remains central to the practice of planning, the variety and quantity of information have ballooned in the last two decades. The methods of accessing and handling information -- although often ultimately easier and faster -- require new technical savvy. At the same time, planners themselves, and the constituents they serve, have changed. This completely revised and updated third edition of this popular book will serve the new generation of planners who work in a world where social media, cell phones, community embedded development, and a changing population have revolutionized the practice of planning. Edited again by Hemalata C. Dandekar, with chapters by leading experts in data collection, analysis, presentation, and management, The Planner's Use of Information empowers practitioners to use and address the impacts of twenty-first century technologies. The Planner's Use of Information offers a range of methods for addressing many kinds of information needs in myriad situations. It's an invaluable day-to-day resource for practicing planners and an ideal classroom text for courses in planning communication and analytical methods. Illustrations, real-life examples, cartoons, exercises, bibliographies, and lists of online resources enrich the text\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Public capital investment spike events: the regional dimension in Greece
Deviating from the standard practice of linking public infrastructure and regional output expansion through a linear long-run equilibrium relationship, we consider the case where public investments follow a ‘bumpy’ path instead. According to the political business cycles theory, we argue that public infrastructure investments occur in a lumpy manner at the beginning of the electoral period, with reduced activity between spikes. In this framework, we propose a novel methodology applied in a different context to identify the role of investment spikes on the performance of Greek regions from 1995 to 2015. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first research focusing on the relationship between spikes in public investments and their impact on regional development. To address the research question, we utilize a difference-in-differences (
Diff in Diff
) model. However, it is important to note that this approach is susceptible to endogeneity concerns, particularly it might suffer from omitted variable bias, a form of endogeneity. The analysis shows a strong increase in regional labor productivity, peaking three years after the shock.
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Crossing Borders
The complex diffusion processes affecting the flow of planning ideas and practices across the globe are illustrated in this book. It raises questions about why and how some ideas and practices attract international attention, and about the invention processes which go on when external influences are woven together with local efforts to meet local specifics and requirements.
Initiated to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the journal Planning Theory and Practice in 2009, this book reflects the themes of the journal.
Taking different intellectual perspectives, this collection takes a critical look at the international diffusion of planning ideas and practices, their impacts on planning practices in different contexts, on the challenge of ‘situating’ planning practices, and on the ethical and methodological issues of international exchange in the planning field.
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