st th The 21 century is the century of Asia in the same way the 20 century was of America. In terms of urbanization challenges Asia in the current century is faced with an enormous surge of urban population and the associated problems of rural âurban migration, overcrowding, proliferation of slums, housing shortage, growing unempl- ment and underemployment and choice between capital intensive productivity vs. While facing these challenges many bright urbani- tion aspects may also be noted âefficient mass transport systems of Japan, banning of leaded fuels for motor vehicles in Indian mega cities, formation and operation of metro âplanning organizations, linking rural/urban development and a general consciousness of urban problems, recognization and efforts to resolve them.

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Learning from Clusters

So that is what we did and a conference was organised in Amsterdam on 25 October 2002, hosted by the Faculty of Economics and Econometrics of the University of Amsterdam. We are now very proud to present this festschrift, firstly as the palpable result of this conference and secondly as a token of sincere respect and great affection for Jan. Here, we have explicitly focused on a central theme in contemporary economic geography and regional science, namely the relationship between learning, innovation and clustering.

ConÂ sequently, the research frontier in retailing has shifted to a higher spatial level, the location of stores in the regional and national context.

It need not be true, to cite the most obvious of examples, that regions which are attractive as places of living for high-school and college students, the customÂ ary data base, are also worthwhile from the business point of view.

Learning from Clusters

The Methane Age

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. It particularly enjoys exchanging views and arguing about the current state and the future of evaluation in spatial planning (all families have their vices . Following these three meetings, we can now say that this small, industrious, international family really enjoy meeting up from time to time at each others places, in the presence of older members and new children, each one presenting his/her own recent experiences.

The Golden Century of Oil 1950â2050

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The Golden Century of Oil 1950â2050

oil is the lifeblood of the World's economy. This book is an effort to try to answer that question : not in detail, but at least in orders of magnitude. It was a critical element in two World Wars and in the Cold War, and, as recent events in the Middle East confirm, people are willing to fight for it.