Urbanisation and financialisation in the context of a rescaling state : the case of Spain
of the major manifestations of the current financial crisis: excessive private indebtedness and the credit crunch. It concludes that this case is revealing because of the intensity of construction work until 2007, the severity of the subsequent economic crisis
Mono-industrialism and the struggle for alternative development : the case of the Roşia Montană gold-mining project
This article analyses mono-industrialism and the struggle for alternative development through the case of the Roşia Montană gold-mining project in Romania. It examines the socio-economic consequences of the mining project proposed
The spatial knowledge of indigenous people in mountainous environments : a case study of three Taiwanese indigenous tribes
This article recounts information gleaned from a case study of three indigenous tribes in Taiwan regarding the origin and nature of their spatial knowledge. The results show that spatial components are used for daily activities, as well as having
Urban sustainability and the LEED rating system : case studies on the role of regional characteristics and adaptive reuse in green building in Denver and Boulder, Colorado
Using the case of a state-led urban regeneration program implemented in Portugal since 2000, the Polis Program, this article discusses the hegemonic status of neoliberalism as a theoretical concept and as an analytical framework and on discussions
to a diversity of concepts may be a more profitable line of inquiry. It suggests that current efforts at epistemological renewal within urban studies benefit from taking up cities in the “borderlands” of urban theory as relevant cases in their own right.
This paper explores the use of synthetic variables in IV estimation when the analysis is of spatial data series. It considers two situations of interest: first, the case where there are no clear candidates for instrumentation and the instruments
are comprised of purely synthetic variables; second, the case when there are substantive but weak instruments that can be enhanced by the addition of synthetic variables. The approach proposed is illustrated with an empirical example.
The article draws on a case study of Totnes, a small market town in the southwest of the UK, to provide an empirical example of the emergence of an alternative milieu and the benefits of the approach. The paper proceeds as follows: in the first
section, it introduces and explains the concept of an alternative milieu. It then provides some background on the case-study area. In the next section, it describes the emergence of the alternative milieu under consideration, and the processes leading
Building on the case study of Quebec’s coastal region maritime industry, the relevance of the regional innovation system framework to analyse and plan innovation development in the periphery is discussed. The analysis indicates that, while public
production system’. This case suggests that a ‘thickening’ of the knowledge infrastructure does not automatically lead to significant development in the productive system in peripheral regions.
enhancement in the first case and the strong effect of convection in the latter case produced differences in the return periods of precipitation totals. Subsequently, the hydrological response was rapid and particularly strong in smaller streams in August