The Rise of the English Regions?

The Rise of the English Regions?
Author: Irene Hardill
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2006-10-03
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1134306083

A critical look at regional development and governance, examining the causes of the South-East domination and comparing each region in terms of its characteristics and its experience of devolution.

Shrinking Cities

Shrinking Cities
Author: Harry W. Richardson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2014-03-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136162097

This book examines a rapidly emerging new topic in urban settlement patterns: the role of shrinking cities. Much coverage is given to declining fertility rates, ageing populations and economic restructuring as the factors behind shrinking cities, but there is also reference to resource depletion, the demise of single-company towns and the micro-location of environmental hazards. The contributions show that shrinkage can occur at any scale – from neighbourhood to macro-region - and they consider whether shrinkage of metropolitan areas as a whole may be a future trend. Also addressed in this volume is the question of whether urban shrinkage policies are necessary or effective. The book comprises four parts: world or regional issues (with reference to the European Union and Latin America); national case studies (the United States, India, China, Korea, Taiwan, Germany, Romania and Estonia); city case studies (Detroit, Buffalo, Cleveland, Naples, Belfast and Halle); and broad issues such as the environmental consequences of shrinking cities. This book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners working in the fields of urban studies, economic geography and public policy.

Innovation, Regional Development and the Life Sciences

Innovation, Regional Development and the Life Sciences
Author: Kean Birch
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2016-10-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317613813

The life sciences is an industrial sector that covers the development of biological products and the use of biological processes in the production of goods, services and energy. This sector is frequently presented as a major opportunity for policy-makers to upgrade and renew regional economies, leading to social and economic development through support for high-tech innovation. Innovation, Regional Development and the Life Sciences analyses where innovation happens in the life sciences, why it happens in those places, and what this means for regional development policies and strategies. Focusing on the UK and Europe, its arguments are relevant to a variety of countries and regions pursuing high-tech innovation and development policies. The book’s theoretical approach incorporates diverse geographies (e.g. global, national and regional) and political-economic forces (e.g. discourses, governance and finance) in order to understand where innovation happens in the life sciences, where and how value circulates in the life sciences, and who captures the value produced in life sciences innovation. This book will be of interest to researchers, students and policy-makers dealing with regional/local economic development.

The Making of the English Working Class

The Making of the English Working Class
Author: Edward Palmer Thompson
Publisher: IICA
Total Pages: 866
Release: 1964
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

This account of artisan and working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, adds an important dimension to our understanding of the nineteenth century. E.P. Thompson shows how the working class took part in its own making and re-creates the whole life experience of people who suffered loss of status and freedom, who underwent degradation and who yet created a culture and political consciousness of great vitality.

English Grammar, Past and Present, in Three Parts ...

English Grammar, Past and Present, in Three Parts ...
Author: John Collinson Nesfield
Publisher:
Total Pages: 514
Release: 1916
Genre: English language
ISBN:

The plan that has been followed in preparing this book is to carry the student's mind gradually forward from the more easy to the less easy, from the better known to the unknown. The present book is an adaptation of a manual prepared by the same author in India, where English is studied with extraordinary keenness, in an attempt to find the best means of teaching it. It is best to assume that the average student does not know very much to start with, and that every student must be well versed in the principles of modern English, before he can be qualified to begin the much more difficult task of tracing these to their sources. -- from the preface.

Dealing With our Inward Parts for the Growth in Life

Dealing With our Inward Parts for the Growth in Life
Author: Witness Lee
Publisher: Living Stream Ministry
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2016-03-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0736375880

Christ is the life and content of the church, and the church is the vessel to express Christ. In order for Christ to be properly expressed through the church, His members need to learn certain crucial lessons related to dealing with the heart and differentiating the spirit from the soul.