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Cities, Regions and Flows (Paperback)
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Cities, Regions and Flows (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography
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Urban regions have come under increasing pressure to adapt to the
imperatives of mobility, including greater freedom of travel,
rising trade volumes and global economic networks. Whereas
urbanization was once characterized by the concentration of
services and facilities, urban areas now have to ensure the
exchange of goods, services and information in a much more complex,
interrelated, highly competitive, and spatially dispersed
environment. As a consequence, cities are challenged to ensure the
functionality of infrastructure while mitigating negative
environmental and social impacts. Cities, Regions and Flows brings
together debates in a single volume to present a theoretical
framework for understanding the changing relationship between
places and movement. It analyses the significance of flows of goods
for urban and regional development and emphasises the twin
processes of integration and disintegration that result from goods
movement within urban space. It discusses urban regions as nodes
for organizing the exchange of goods, services and information
against a background of socio-economic and technological change, as
well as new patterns of urbanization. The new logistics concepts
and practices that have been developed in response to these changes
exert both integrative and disintegrative effects on cities and
regions. It also considers how urban policies are dealing with
related challenges concerning infrastructure provision, land use,
local labour markets and environmental sustainability. Cities,
Regions and Flows contains thoughtfully prepared case studies from
five different continents on how cities manage to become part of
value chains and how they strive for accessibility in an
increasingly competitive environment. This book will be on interest
to policy-makers and advanced classes in planning, geography, urban
studies and transportation.
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