Regions and Cities
About the Book Series
In today’s globalised, knowledge-driven and networked world, regions and cities have assumed heightened significance as the interconnected nodes of economic, social and cultural production, and as sites of new modes of economic governance and policy experimentation. This book series brings together incisive and critically engaged international and interdisciplinary research on this resurgence of regions and cities, and should be of interest to geographers, economists, sociologists, political scientists and cultural scholars, as well as to policy-makers involved in regional and urban development.
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Kristina Abbotts – [email protected] – Routledge Commissioning Editor
The Regions and Cities book series welcomes Open Access projects. Please contact Kristina Abbotts or visit https://www.routledge.com/info/open_access for more details.
About the Regional Studies Association (RSA)
The RSA is the global community for regional and urban research, development and policy. As a learned society for regional studies, it provides an authoritative voice for researchers, students and practitioners from disciplines including economics, geography, political science, planning, urban sociology, transport planning and other fields. The RSA delivers its charitable aims through knowledge exchange and policy engagement activities, its portfolio of journals and publications, its programme of conferences and events and its worldwide territorial and research networks. The RSA also runs a grant funding programme and recognises good practice in regional studies through its awards. It is an inclusive, diverse and environmental responsible organisation. For more information go to www.regionalstudies.org
Dissemination Support for Authors
The RSA increases the dissemination of research and supports authors publishing in this book series through the promotion of new books, organisation of online book launches in cooperation with the author(s) and by offering a platform for the publication of book reviews.
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Higher Education and Regional Green Transitions: Navigating Tensions, Complexities and Solutions
1st Edition
Edited
By Rómulo Pinheiro, Ina Drejer, Dzamila Bienkowska, Vito Laterza, Markku Sotarauta
June 04, 2026
Higher education institutions (HEIs) play a pivotal yet underexplored role in Regional Green Transitions (RGTs) and sustainable development. This volume addresses this knowledge gap by examining how universities in the Nordic region engage with RGTs, offering theoretical and methodological insights...
Spatial Governance Landscapes: Regulation, Property, and Planning
1st Edition
By Tuna Taşan-Kok, Sara Özoğul, Andre Legarza
April 04, 2026
What shapes the city? This book answers this question with a fresh, relational lens: spatial governance landscapes, the dynamic interplay between planning regulation and property-market strategies. Centered on the Metropolitan Region of Amsterdam, the book traces how rules, norms, and public ...
Regions in Evolution: A History of Regional Planning
1st Edition
By Daniel Galland, Mark Tewdwr-Jones, John Harrison
March 04, 2026
Throughout the twentieth century, planning and planners were central to our understanding of cities and regions. Today, however, planning is facing powerful challenges – professionally, intellectually, practically – in ways arguably not seen before. Recent developments and trends are raising ...
Universities, Knowledge and Places
1st Edition
Edited
By David Charles, Lisa Nieth, Lars Coenen, Ridvan Cinar
February 20, 2026
This book is a memorial to Professor Paul Benneworth who died in 2020 at the age of 46, but also a review of the current state of the art in work on universities and place, identifying important new directions for research. The book showcases Paul’s contribution, authored by those who worked with ...
The Political Economy of Megaprojects in Asia: State Power, Land Control, Financial Flows, and Dispossession
1st Edition
Edited
By Hyun Bang Shin, Dong-Wan Gimm
November 26, 2025
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of how the developmental goals of Asian states are reflected in large-scale projects and how various actors both realize and challenge these goals. The rise of Asian economies has spurred the proliferation of megaprojects through large-scale resource ...
Regional Economic Development in Mexico
1st Edition
By Alejandra Trejo Nieto
October 16, 2025
Latin America is the most unequal region in the world, and geographical imbalances are a significant component of overall inequality. On average, regional economic disparities here are four times higher than in countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). This ...
Spatial Justice and Cohesion: The Role of Place-Based Action in Community Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Matti Fritsch, Petri Kahila, Sarolta Németh, James W. Scott
January 30, 2025
Place-based strategies are widely discussed as powerful instruments of economic and community development. In terms of the European debate, the local level – cities, towns and neighbourhoods – has recently come under increased scrutiny as a potentially decisive actor in Cohesion Policy. As ...
Inequalities, Territorial Politics, Nationalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Donatella della Porta, Michael Keating, Mario Pianta
December 18, 2024
This book explores how political, economic and social crises in Europe have led to electoral realignments, territorial forms of politics and new nationalisms. Since the 2008 financial crisis, European countries have faced economic stagnation, rising inequalities, worsening social conditions and ...
Climate Governance and Urban Planning: Implementing Low-Carbon Development Patterns
1st Edition
By Deborah Heinen
August 26, 2024
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 ...
Questioning Planetary Illiberal Geographies: Territory, Space and Power
1st Edition
Edited
By Jason Luger
August 26, 2024
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 and terrains) is producing, and ...
The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Future of Working Spaces
1st Edition
Edited
By Ilaria Mariotti, Mina Di Marino, Pavel Bednář
May 27, 2024
This edited volume presents a compendium of emerging and innovative studies on the proliferation of new working spaces (NeWSps), both formal and informal (such as coworking spaces, maker spaces, fab labs, public libraries, and coffee shops), and their role during and following the COVID-19 pandemic...
Governance and City Regions: Policy and Planning in Europe
1st Edition
By Karsten Zimmermann, Patricia Feiertag
September 25, 2023
City-regions are areas where the daily journeys for work, shopping and leisure frequently cross administrative boundaries. They are seen as engines of the national economy, but are also facing congestion and disparities. Thus, all over the world, governments attempt to increase problem-solving ...