Mobilizing leadership in cities and regions

Planning support systems for cities and regions

Planning support systems for cities and regions / [edited by] Richard K. Brail. p. cm. Includes index.

The Poverty of Cities in Developing Regions

A LONG-STANDING BELIEF in development studies holds that, on the whole, living conditions in developing countries are superior for residents of large cities than for persons living in smaller cities, towns, and villages. The concept of big cities as " islands of privilege " (Harrison 1982: 145) is fundamental to otherwise discrepant theories of modernization, dependency, world systems of cities...

Geocentric Crowdsourcing and Smarter Cities: Enabling Urban Intelligence in Cities and Regions

This paper explores the application of crowdsourcing to cities and regions – what I call “geocentric crowdsourcing.” My basic interest is in how crowdsourcing can be used to enable cities and regions to more effectively address issues ranging from infrastructure to governance. I have two entwined aims in this position paper. One is to discuss the notion of smarter cities, and the ways in which ...

Housing affordability, occupation and location in Australian cities and regions

Spatial Disparities in Developing Countries: Cities, Regions and International Trade

Spatial inequality in developing countries is due to the natural advantages of some regions relative to others and to the presence of agglomeration forces, leading to clustering of activity. This paper reviews and develops some simple models that capture these first and second nature economic geographies. The presence of increasing returns to scale in cities leads to urban structures that are n...