Smart cities have become a landmark in urban planning. They are the result of knowledge-intensive
and creative strategies aiming at enhancing the socio-economic, ecological, logistic …

The aim of this book on the use of multiple criteria analysis in physical planning is to
synthesize most of the relevant work in this field. Its first objective is to provide a concise and …

NIJKAMP P.(2003) Entrepreneurship in a modern network economy, Reg. Studies 37, 395–405.
In this survey paper the literature on entrepreneurship is summarized from the …

Sustainability assessment (SA) is a complex appraisal method. It is conducted for supporting
decision-making and policy in a broad environmental, economic and social context, and …

Regional economics–an established discipline for several decades–has undergone a period
of rapid change in the last ten years resulting in the emergence of several new perspectives…

The issue of whether the public sector enhances or retards long-run economic growth has
been debated passionately in recent years. We use meta-analysis to shed light on the issue. A …

This article presents a meta-analysis of variations in price and income elasticities of residential
water demand. Meta-analysis constitutes an adequate tool to synthesize research results …

Urban performance currently depends not only on a city's endowment of hard infrastructure (physical
capital), but also, and increasingly so, on the availability and quality of knowledge …

Although urbanization steadily increases, many modern cities are finding the accommodation
of their populations an increasingly difficult task. Planners and policy-makers battling to …

Environmental problems have become a worldwide concern for economists, as is witnessed
by the development of many theories and policies aimed at driving the economy towards a `…