Policymakers often rely on familiar indicators such as GDP, employment rates, and education levels to assess regional well-being. Yet these metrics tell only part of the story. Human flourishing, encompassing happiness, health, purpose, virtue, relationships, and financial stability, is increasingly recognized as a vital complement to traditional economic indicators (VanderWeele et. al, 2020). However, existing […]
We are pleased to announce that we will run a special track (i.e., set of research paper panels) at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association (UAA), taking place from April 29 – May 2, 2026, in Chicago, Illinois. The session, titled The City-Region Reimagined: Intersections of Theory, Policy, Practice, and Place, will […]
Clusters are geographically concentrated areas of activity around a certain industry. The central question for modern cluster theory from the perspective of industry dynamics is why firms co-locate in the same space. The classic example is Silicon Valley, where multiple IT companies compete side by side, amidst some of the highest costs in the world. […]
Women’s Entrepreneurship and Rural Regional Revitalisation – Comparative Study Women’s Entrepreneurship and Rural Regional Revitalisation – Comparative Study addresses the persistent policy challenge of how to stimulate economic revitalisation in ‘left behind’ rural regions. This comparative, exploratory ethnographic study examines the extent to which locally led entrepreneurial ventures by less-visible social actors (rural women) are contributing […]
Michael R. Glass is an assistant professor in Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. Working at the intersection of sociology, geography, and regional studies, his primary research is on city-region governance, infrastructure, and innovation. He has published in leading international journals including Regional Studies, Urban Studies, the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and […]
As in previous years, the RSA will again have a strong presence at this year’s AAG, which will take place from March 24-28 2025 in Detroit,USA. Publishing Regional Studies Research will focus on publishing, where RSA members and editors will unravel the mysteries in an engaging session around this topic. Publishing Regional Studies Research: from […]
Geographies of Refugee Resettlement and Post-industrial Urban Renewal in Rust Belt Cities Refugees are active agents of urban change. According to the United Nations, 60 percent of the world’s refugees are in cities and as such, cities of today are uniquely positioned to seek solutions that address refugee concerns alongside interrelated urban social justice and […]
Grete Gansauer is an economic geographer and interdisciplinary public policy researcher focused on regional development, place-based policy, and the Foundational Economy in peripheral regions and ‘left behind’ places. Focusing on rural contexts and natural resource production, her research examines sustainability of essential services and infrastructures as both drivers and indicators of spatial inequality, and evaluates […]
Jennifer Clark is Knowlton School Distinguished Professor and Head of the City and Regional Planning Section in the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University. She is also a Visiting Professor of City and Regional Planning with the School of Business at the University of Stavanger in Norway. She has authored numerous articles, chapters, […]
It was great to see six sessions at RSA 2023 in Ljubljana as part of a theme on Climate Change, Energy & Environmental Sustainability. Several other sessions were focused on sustainability as well. Many of the papers presented technical analyses of supporting blue or green economy initiatives. While these are much needed, we also need […]
Jennifer Clark is Knowlton School Distinguished Professor and Head of the City and Regional Planning Section in the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University. She is also a Visiting Professor of City and Regional Planning with the School of Business at the University of Stavanger in Norway. She has authored numerous articles, chapters, […]
Small Grant Scheme on Pandemics, Cities, Regions & Industry: Racial Disparities of the Paycheck Protection Program: Focusing on Structural Differences in Banking Infrastructure This project examines the distributional outcomes of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which was implemented by the U.S. federal government to preserve jobs in small businesses in response to the 2020 coronavirus […]
This blog was written for the RSA Blog Student Summer Series that will highlight graduate student success in regional studies across the globe throughout the summer. If the American West could be defined by one characteristic, it would be aridity. Water quantity and quality deficiencies perennially frame development controversies across the West– particularly in […]
This blog was written for the RSA Blog Student Summer Series that will highlight graduate student success in regional studies across the globe throughout the summer. Various studies have acknowledged and highlighted the significant contribution of an integrated system to adopt and execute climate action plans. This article will attempt to unveil the influence […]
Michael R. Glass is an assistant professor in Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. Working at the intersection of sociology, geography, and regional studies, his primary research is on city-region governance, infrastructure, and innovation. He has published in leading international journals including Regional Studies, Urban Studies, the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and […]
Whether we call it cohesion, levelling up, lagging regions, or place-based policy; regional inequality has been a long-term persistent problem. I started to become really interested in how places adapt, and what we would find if we begin from the starting point of adaptation – particularly using the Deleuzian Assemblage and the complex adaptive […]
The RSA Ambassador to USA is Michael Glass, Director of the Urban Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. As the United States ambassador for the RSA, it’s my pleasure to assist anyone who wants to address the unruly, diverse, and essential set of regionalisms that exist across the country. I look forward to working […]
This blog was written for the RSA Blog Student Summer Series that will highlight graduate student success in regional studies across the globe throughout the summer. Inequality is a broad concept. Over the last few decades, different disciplines and research fields have come up with distinct interpretations and concepts to reveal, track, explain, and […]
Jessie P.H. Poon is Professor of Geography at the University at Buffalo, New York. She is currently an editor of Environment and Planning A. She was the North American editor of Papers in Regional Science from 2002 to 2006. She has published over 100 papers on multinational firms’ locational strategies, foreign direct investment, trade, and […]
Open to all and free to attend, this webinar series aims to bring experts in the field of regional studies, science and policy to you. The webinar can be watched live but will also available on demand. The webinars will run live once a month and feature researcher and policymaker experts. They include time for […]
Jennifer Clark is Professor and Head of the City and Regional Planning Section at the Knowlton School of Architecture in the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University. She specializes in urban and regional economic development planning. She is the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Regional Studies and a Fellow of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) […]
Mia Bennett is an assistant professor in the Geography Department at the University of Washington. As a political geographer with geospatial skills, through fieldwork and remote sensing, she researches transportation infrastructure and natural resource development in northern frontiers, namely the Arctic, Russian Far East, and along the more remote corridors of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. […]
Andrea Morrison is currently Marie-Curie Fellow at the Department of Management and Technology, Bocconi University and Associate Professor in Economic Geography at Utrecht University. His research interests lie in the areas of evolutionary economics, innovation studies, economic geography and economic development. He has investigated extensively topics like system of innovation, industrial clusters, knowledge networks, global […]