Economic restructuring and new urban form

Economic Restructuring, Urban Change and Regeneration: the Case of Dublin

This paper examines the impact of international economic restructuring and globalisation in urban areas, with particular reference to Ireland’s capital city, Dublin. These trends, often depicted as unproblematic, have resulted in considerable polarisation between various social groups and areas, and new inequalities have emerged between “winners” and “losers”. In Dublin, as in other cities, the...

Contemporery Urban Development and Sustainable Urban Form

Sustainable settlement is one of the key constituents of sustainable development, and sustainable urban development can be defined in this framework. Emergence of sustainable development as a commonly-used phrase has caused several controversies about urban forms. Today’s urban form is known as a source of environmental problems. Undoubtedly, this phrase has persuaded many of researchers to sea...

Regional Restructuring and Urban Regimes:

Economic Clustering and Urban Form: The Case of Hamilton, Ontario

A body of literature has emerged over the past three decades to quantify the sprouting form of our contemporary cities. This paper adds to this literature by investigating the urban form of the City of Hamilton in Ontario, Canada. The novelty of this research is the use of firm micro data for the examination of the types of economic clustering and their influence on urban form. Furthermore, we ...

Mapping Urban Change and Changing GIS: other views of economic restructuring

For positivist researchers, geographic information systems (GIS) emerged in the 1990s as a unique tool to further legitimize geography as a science and profession. Those on the critical side tended to see GIS as a tool producing knowledge that supports the status quo, including class, gender, and ‘race’ hierarchies. Alternatively, other geographers considered GIS as a socially constructed techn...