Open Access Open Access  Restricted Access Subscription Access

Some Reflections on the Post-Urban World Paradigm: Innovative Global Economies and Emergent Transformation of Cities and Regions1

Tigran Haas, Hans Westlund

Abstract


Edward Glaeser has pointed out that cities with a million inhabitants before the year 1800 were all capitals of empires and the reason that they could reach that size was that they were the best governed cities in the world.
The industrial revolution would change the urban-rural balance forever. Industrialization meant urbanization, either by growth of existing cities or by emergence of new urban agglomerations. But urbanization also meant increased demand for rural products, such as food.

Full Text:

PDF

References


T. Haas, H. Westlund (eds.). The core of this text is part of the major book and presents the main idea of Post Urban World and introduction, In: The Post-Urban World” – Emergent Transformations of Cities and Regions in the Innovative Global Economy. Routledge: London; Reproduced by permission from the authors and editors. Social Capital and Rural Development in the Knowledge Society/[ed] Hans Westlund and Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing; 2013, s. 1–18p.

C.L. Beale. The revival of population growth in non-metropolitan America, Economic Research Service. publication 605, US Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC, 1975.

A.G. Champion. Urban and regional demographic trends in the developed world, Urban Stud. 1992; 29: 461–82p.

S. Watson (ed.) The New Blackwell Companion to the City. Oxford: Blackwell; 679–89p.

E.W. Soja. Regional Urbanization and the End of the Metropolis Era. In Gary Bridge. 2011.S

S. Sassen. The global city: introducing a concept, Brown J World Affairs. 2005; XI(2): 27–43p.

R. Florida. Cities and the creative class, In: City & Community 2:1. March 2003. American Sociological Association; 2003, 3–19p.

M. Castells. The Rise of the Network Society: The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture. Vol. 1, NY: John Wiley & Sons; 1996.

W.J. Mitchell. City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press; 1995.

E. Glaeser. Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier. Pan Macmillan: New York; 2011.

J. Rose. The Well-Tempered City. Harper Wave: New York; 2016.

H. Lefebvre. The Urban Revolution. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, (French original published in 1970); 2003.

H. Westlund. Urban futures in planning, policy and regional science: are we entering a post-urban world? Built Environ. 2014; 40(4): 447–57p.




DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/jrrpd.v3i1.305

Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.