Call for Proposals for the Regional Studies Association’s Regions & Cities Book Series Published by Routledge Places, Networks, and Uneven Spatial Development Regions and cities develop unevenly, within and without, and value is created spatially across their unevenness through places and networks. Regions and cities are sub- and supra-national geographies, often with contested, overlapping boundaries, […]
The RSA is pleased to announce the publication of the 12th Policy Impact book: A seat at the table: A place for disabled entrepreneurs and innovators edited by Helen Lawton Smith, Connie L. McNeely, Jacqueline Winstanley and Ayşe Seyyide Kaptaner Demirhan. One of the editors, Helen Lawton Smith, said: “Increasing entrepreneurship by disabled people is a global […]
Watch as Stephen Ramos, University of Georgia, USA presents the 2025 RSA Best Book Award to Neil Lee of the London School of Economics in the UK for his book entitled Innovation for the Masses: How to Share the Benefits of High-tech Economy. https://www.ucpress.edu/books/innovation-for-the-masses/epub-pdf eBook ISBN: 9780520394896
Watch as Laura Polverari, University of Padua, Italy, presents the 2024 RSA Best Book Award to Henry Wai-Chung Yeung, of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, for his book entitled Interconnected Worlds: Global Electronics and Production Networks in East Asia. Ebook ISBN: 9781503632233
Questioning Planetary Illiberal Geographies Territory, Space and Power Edited by Jason Luger, Northumbria University Newcastle, United Kingdom This book engages with current debates on ‘planetary urbanization’ and the nature of urban political theory but notably considers the implications of illiberalism on space, territory, and power. Such a focus is timely, as illiberalism (across various settings […]
Climate Governance and Urban Planning: Implementing Low-Carbon Development Patterns By Deborah Heinen, HafenCity Universität, Germany Urban planning as a discipline is deeply integral to implementing a low-carbon future. This book fosters an understanding for how the rules-in-use that govern urban planning influence the ability to implement low-carbon development patterns. Drawing on the theoretical foundations of the […]
Edited By Peter Karl Kresl [https://www.peterkarlkresl.com/], Charles P. Vaughn Professor of Economics Emeritus, Bucknell University, USA; President, Global Urban Competitiveness Project, USA Plenty has been written on the competitiveness of megacities, capital cities, and regional hubs. Cities in developing countries have not yet received the same attention – this book fills that gap. An international team […]
Universities and Regional Engagement From the Exceptional to the Everyday Edited By Tatiana Iakovleva, Elisa Thomas, Laila Nordstrand Berg, Rómulo Pinheiro, Paul Benneworth The study of universities’ role in regional engagement has traditionally been focusing on exceptional cases. This book presents a reconceptualization which embraces its underlying complexity and proposes a roadmap for a renewed research […]
Planning Regional Futures Edited By John Harrison, Daniel Galland, Mark Tewdwr-Jones Planning Regional Futures is an intellectual call to engage planners to critically explore what planning is, and should be, in how cities and regions are planned. This is in a context where planning is seen to face powerful challenges – professionally, intellectually and practically – in […]