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David A. Plane - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Edward Louis Ullman (1912–1976): Establishing the Bases of Regional Science
Great Minds in Regional Science, 2020Co-Authors: David A. PlaneAbstract:In this chapter, David Plane discusses the career of Edward Ullman, an American geographer who helped shape the early development of Regional Science. Ullman was among the pioneers of a more analytical and policy-relevant approach to the discipline of geography, and his three ‘bases of spatial interaction’ are now among its core concepts. An active participant in the formative years of Regional Science professional organizations, he made major contributions in three areas that remain at the heart of Regional Science: transportation networks and flows, cities and settlement systems, and the economic structure and development of regions. Ullman’s work blended theory, empirical data, mapping, and traditional geographic description of regions. The bases he laid down for works in Regional Science live on to the present day.
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What about aging in Regional Science
The Annals of Regional Science, 2012Co-Authors: David A. PlaneAbstract:This paper is a revised version of a North American Regional Science Council Presidential Address delivered at the 57th North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Denver, Colorado, November 11, 2010. The question ‘What about aging in Regional Science?’ is posed and discussed from three perspectives. First, the aging of the corpus of practitioners of the multidisciplinary field is considered. Second, views are expressed about how, as each of us individually ages, participation in the temporal and spatial web of the Regional Science community helps to structure and impart meaning to our professional lives. Third, it is argued that age and aging deserve more attention as Regional Science research continues to advance. The implications of aging for research in the author’s specialty area of migration are discussed.
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The first fifty years of the Western Regional Science Association: the making of the WRSA brand
The Annals of Regional Science, 2011Co-Authors: Lay James Gibson, Robert L. Monahan, David A. PlaneAbstract:In 1954 the Regional Science Association held its first conference in Detroit, Michigan. Seven years later, in 1961, the Western Regional Science Association was founded as one of the four United States-based sections (the Northeastern, the Southern, the Mid-Continent, and the Western). In the 50 years since its founding, the WRSA has met its obligation to promote Regional Science in Western North America and has gone beyond that initial mandate to promote Regional Science internationally and to become an association that truly delivers on the somewhat whimsical motto: “The way academic life should be.” In this paper, coauthored by the Association’s three long-term Executive Secretaries, W. W. Rostow’s model of the stages for economic advancement is employed, by analogy, to interpret the historical development of the Western Regional Science Association—and of its distinctive “brand”—over its first half century.
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The role of migration research in Regional Science.
Papers in Regional Science, 2005Co-Authors: David A. Plane, Christopher BitterAbstract:In this paper we try to provide an assessment of the role that migration research has played over the course of the more than 40 years in which Regional Science has existed as a recognizable multidisciplinary academic enterprise.... To carry out our analyses we developed a data base of papers published in five leading Regional Science journals. The authors "attempt to set the Regional Science contributions in the context of migration research more generally comparing the results of the journal analysis to a broader sample of migration abstracts published in the Population Index." (EXCERPT)
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Introducing the brightest of dawns: Regional Science in “Papers”
Papers in Regional Science, 2003Co-Authors: Raymond J.g.m. Florax, David A. PlaneAbstract:This Golden Anniversary Issue, The Brightest of Dawns: 50 Years of Regional Science has been written on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI). The title represents our belief that the multiRegional field of Regional Science has now been firmly established. A sound scholarly foundation, grounded in social Science theory, has been laid. The toolkit of powerful techniques for applied Regional analysis is an ever-expanding one. And the institutional basis is now solidly established, with a plethora of active Regional Science associations, domestic and international conferences galore, a host of well-established Regional Science journals, a number of interdisciplinary academic programmes, and numerous prestigious Regional research institutes. Today, Regional scientists carry out their craft not just within the academic departments of the world’s leading universities, but also in government agencies and the business sector.
Peter Nijkamp - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Envisioning Experiments on Regional Science Frontiers
Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research, 2016Co-Authors: Karima Kourtit, Vicente Royuela, Tomaz Ponce-dentinho, Peter NijkampAbstract:Science dynamics has become an established part of scientific research. Over the past years, a broad variety of experimental approaches has been developed to explore the frontiers of the current state of the art —and their shifts— in either separate disciplines or scientific domains, such as expert-opinion consultations, multi-level approaches, living labs, joint decision rooms, scenario methods, imagineering experiments, or interactive envisioning methods. The present chapter will contribute to Science dynamics in Regional Science research by offering findings from an envisioning experiment among some 60 well-known Regional scientists, with a view to a critical assessment of past and current performance, so as to initiate an open exploration of promising and challenging research endeavours for the next decades of Regional Science research. This may range from innovative concept formulation to joint use of open access and big data. This experimental approach serves to pave the road towards proactive strategies and conceptualisations in Regional Science research and Regional policy. The main future concern implicit in the brainstorming experiment appears to be related to spatial justice, next to good governance, and consistency between techniques, methods and theories, as well as an effective interaction with students/scholars and society. This exercise shows that important lessons can also be learned from past scientific mistakes, especially those that were associated with policy failures. New scientific ideas are, of course, pushed by the rise of novel techniques and methods, but also and predominately from evolving new realities, either social or technological. Nevertheless, there are still various doubts concerning the future direction of Regional Science agenda: Which new thoughts and methods are requested? Which policies must be created and improved? What are the scientific possibilities created by new data? The Regional Science agenda is full of challenges and promises, but how can it be effective? This scoping study does not provide definite answers, but serves to explore uncertain future frontiers.
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Towards A Regional Science Academy: A Manifesto
REGION, 2016Co-Authors: Peter Nijkamp, Karima Kourtit, Abdellatif Khattabi, Adam Rose, Adriana Kocornik-mina, Alessandra Faggian, Allen Scott, Amit Batabyal, Ana Maria Bonomi Barufi, André TorreAbstract:This Manifesto provides a joint proposal to create a Regional Science Academy as a think-tank support platform for a strategic development of the spatial Sciences. The Regional Science Academy is a strategic spatial knowledge catalyst: it acts as a global intellectual powerhouse for new knowledge network initiatives and scholarly views on regions and cities as vital centrepieces of interconnected spatial systems. This contribution highlights its role and presents various activity plans.
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a roadmap for a new mindset in Regional Science the Regional Science academy
Revista Brasileira de Gestão e Desenvolvimento Regional, 2015Co-Authors: Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp, Hans WestlundAbstract:This contribution argues that the great many spatial challenges of our world and the emerging spatial dynamics call for new modes of thinking on Regional Science research. The creation of a Regional Science Academy may be helpful in meeting this novel demand. The much needed radical and new perspective on the future of our space economy is illustrated by a concise challenging exposition on the consequences of the ongoing ‘New Urban World’ which might eventually turn into a ‘Post-Urban World’. The Regional Science Academy may be instrumental in developing such ideas.
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Regional Science what matters which matters
2015Co-Authors: Peter Nijkamp, Adam Rose, Karima KourtitAbstract:It is often taken for granted that the year 1956 heralds the birth of Regional Science. In this year Walter Isard’s classic Location and Space-Economy was published. Admittedly, Isard had already published some noteworthy articles in preceding years. In 1949, he published a first major contribution to the foundations of early Regional Science, in his article ‘The General Theory of Location and Space Economy’, in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. His article ‘InterRegional and Regional Input-Output Analysis: A Model of a Space-Economy’, published in1951 in the Review of Economics and Statistics (vol. 33, pp. 318–328), was also a remarkable scholarly achievement. The same holds for his article ‘Location Theory and Trade Theory: Short-run Analysis’, published in 1954 in the Quarterly Journal of Economics (vol. 68, pp. 305–320).
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The Environment in Regional Science: An Eclectic Review
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2003Co-Authors: Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Peter NijkampAbstract:The environment, broadly construed, is increasingly a salient topic in Regional Science research. Theoretical and empirical inquiries by Regional scientists have progressively begun to address the manifold environmental ramifications of Regional Science questions. As such, there now exists a sizeable literature on what we may call the environment in Regional Science. Given this state of affairs, the purpose of this paper is to survey this extensive literature. To provide sufficient focus, we do this by discussing five key issues in the extant literature on the environment in Regional Science. These issues are (i) Regional economic development, (ii) environmental regulation, (iii) natural resources, (iv) international affairs, and (v) geographic information systems. Our survey is both retrospective and prospective in nature. We are interested not only in what has been accomplished thus far but also in where research on the environment in Regional Science is headed in the future.
Lay James Gibson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Expanding the Content of Regional Science: Risks and Rewards, an Essay
New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, 2020Co-Authors: Antoine Sylvain Bailly, Lay James GibsonAbstract:Regional Science has developed as a rigorous Science with a strong foundation in economics and geography. There is no apparent reason for Regional Science to seek an entirely new orientation, but there is an argument for it to expand its horizons and reach by exploring opportunities for incorporating other disciplines. The idea here is not to dramatically shift the focus of Regional Science but rather to encourage the incorporation of new content and to expand the participant base by scientists and scholars who benefit from incorporating their fields with the approaches offered by Regional Science. The potential rewards are substantial but there are risks too. One obvious reward for disciplines and professional fields that elect to work within a Regional Science framework includes viewing problems through a new lens. The risks might include the dilution of the distinctiveness of the Regional Science approach as it seems to try to be all things to all people. This paper explores potentials to expand the content of Regional Science without disturbing its established character. And it discusses the need to minimize risks to the content while gathering the benefits of expanding the discipline into new content areas.
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Emerging trends in Regional Science
Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, 2017Co-Authors: Antoine Sylvain Bailly, Lay James GibsonAbstract:Regional Science has been evolving as a discipline since the 1950s. Whereas it has a distinctive focus and personality, it has not evolved in isolation. We recognize the early influences of economics and geography and other social and natural Sciences. But we also recognize emerging trends that Regional Science can benefit from as it matures. In this paper we discuss emerging academic influences and critical research themes that have the ability to further shape Regional Science as a useful discipline for solving real-world problems.
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SECURING THE FUTURE OF Regional Science CONDITIONS FOR A CORE DISCIPLINE 1)
2013Co-Authors: Antoine Sylvain Bailly, Lay James GibsonAbstract:Regional Science is certainly a well-established feature on the intellectual landscapes of the Americas, Europe, and Asia and is emerging in Africa and elsewhere. The future of Regional Science is bright but could be even brighter if Regional Science were to accomplish several additional milestones. In this paper we present 14 items to improve the future of Regional Science and 5 recommendations.
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The first fifty years of the Western Regional Science Association: the making of the WRSA brand
The Annals of Regional Science, 2011Co-Authors: Lay James Gibson, Robert L. Monahan, David A. PlaneAbstract:In 1954 the Regional Science Association held its first conference in Detroit, Michigan. Seven years later, in 1961, the Western Regional Science Association was founded as one of the four United States-based sections (the Northeastern, the Southern, the Mid-Continent, and the Western). In the 50 years since its founding, the WRSA has met its obligation to promote Regional Science in Western North America and has gone beyond that initial mandate to promote Regional Science internationally and to become an association that truly delivers on the somewhat whimsical motto: “The way academic life should be.” In this paper, coauthored by the Association’s three long-term Executive Secretaries, W. W. Rostow’s model of the stages for economic advancement is employed, by analogy, to interpret the historical development of the Western Regional Science Association—and of its distinctive “brand”—over its first half century.
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The Role of Universities in the Development of Regions: Teaching Regional Science in 2005
2005Co-Authors: Antoine Sylvain Bailly, Lay James Gibson, Peter Batey, Antonio Simoes LopesAbstract:At a recent Regional Science Association International meeting, the presidential address suggested that the future of Regional Science is tied to 1) acceptance by business and government and 2) curriculum developments that make Regional Science more appropriate for students considering careers in business and government. Our field needs to grow in size if it expects to embrace new cohorts of students and new public and private research demands. Through three exemples, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States, we will be concerned with several beachheads that Regional scientists might want to consider taking and holding to assure that our Science is effectively represented in the University curriculum.
Karima Kourtit - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Envisioning Experiments on Regional Science Frontiers
Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research, 2016Co-Authors: Karima Kourtit, Vicente Royuela, Tomaz Ponce-dentinho, Peter NijkampAbstract:Science dynamics has become an established part of scientific research. Over the past years, a broad variety of experimental approaches has been developed to explore the frontiers of the current state of the art —and their shifts— in either separate disciplines or scientific domains, such as expert-opinion consultations, multi-level approaches, living labs, joint decision rooms, scenario methods, imagineering experiments, or interactive envisioning methods. The present chapter will contribute to Science dynamics in Regional Science research by offering findings from an envisioning experiment among some 60 well-known Regional scientists, with a view to a critical assessment of past and current performance, so as to initiate an open exploration of promising and challenging research endeavours for the next decades of Regional Science research. This may range from innovative concept formulation to joint use of open access and big data. This experimental approach serves to pave the road towards proactive strategies and conceptualisations in Regional Science research and Regional policy. The main future concern implicit in the brainstorming experiment appears to be related to spatial justice, next to good governance, and consistency between techniques, methods and theories, as well as an effective interaction with students/scholars and society. This exercise shows that important lessons can also be learned from past scientific mistakes, especially those that were associated with policy failures. New scientific ideas are, of course, pushed by the rise of novel techniques and methods, but also and predominately from evolving new realities, either social or technological. Nevertheless, there are still various doubts concerning the future direction of Regional Science agenda: Which new thoughts and methods are requested? Which policies must be created and improved? What are the scientific possibilities created by new data? The Regional Science agenda is full of challenges and promises, but how can it be effective? This scoping study does not provide definite answers, but serves to explore uncertain future frontiers.
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Towards A Regional Science Academy: A Manifesto
REGION, 2016Co-Authors: Peter Nijkamp, Karima Kourtit, Abdellatif Khattabi, Adam Rose, Adriana Kocornik-mina, Alessandra Faggian, Allen Scott, Amit Batabyal, Ana Maria Bonomi Barufi, André TorreAbstract:This Manifesto provides a joint proposal to create a Regional Science Academy as a think-tank support platform for a strategic development of the spatial Sciences. The Regional Science Academy is a strategic spatial knowledge catalyst: it acts as a global intellectual powerhouse for new knowledge network initiatives and scholarly views on regions and cities as vital centrepieces of interconnected spatial systems. This contribution highlights its role and presents various activity plans.
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a roadmap for a new mindset in Regional Science the Regional Science academy
Revista Brasileira de Gestão e Desenvolvimento Regional, 2015Co-Authors: Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp, Hans WestlundAbstract:This contribution argues that the great many spatial challenges of our world and the emerging spatial dynamics call for new modes of thinking on Regional Science research. The creation of a Regional Science Academy may be helpful in meeting this novel demand. The much needed radical and new perspective on the future of our space economy is illustrated by a concise challenging exposition on the consequences of the ongoing ‘New Urban World’ which might eventually turn into a ‘Post-Urban World’. The Regional Science Academy may be instrumental in developing such ideas.
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Regional Science what matters which matters
2015Co-Authors: Peter Nijkamp, Adam Rose, Karima KourtitAbstract:It is often taken for granted that the year 1956 heralds the birth of Regional Science. In this year Walter Isard’s classic Location and Space-Economy was published. Admittedly, Isard had already published some noteworthy articles in preceding years. In 1949, he published a first major contribution to the foundations of early Regional Science, in his article ‘The General Theory of Location and Space Economy’, in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. His article ‘InterRegional and Regional Input-Output Analysis: A Model of a Space-Economy’, published in1951 in the Review of Economics and Statistics (vol. 33, pp. 318–328), was also a remarkable scholarly achievement. The same holds for his article ‘Location Theory and Trade Theory: Short-run Analysis’, published in 1954 in the Quarterly Journal of Economics (vol. 68, pp. 305–320).
Kieran P. Donaghy - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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walter isard s evolving sense of the scientific in Regional Science
International Regional Science Review, 2014Co-Authors: Kieran P. DonaghyAbstract:Toward the end of his life, a shift occurred in Walter Isard’s thinking about how graduate study in Regional Science should proceed. This shift and its implications for the discipline itself have led me to problematize Walter’s sense of the scientific in Regional Science. In this article, I offer a highly stylized characterization of what Walter thought Regional Science should be about at various points of his life and relate the evolution of his thinking to recent work in the philosophy of Science. I shall argue that Walter’s view of what made Regional Science a Science did not change much, nor did his view of what in general Regional scientists needed to study. I shall also argue that his view of what constituted adequate scholarship did change considerably, as did his views of what Regional Science should encompass in the way of theory and methods and what future progress in the field will entail.
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Walter Isard’s Evolving Sense of the Scientific in Regional Science
International Regional Science Review, 2012Co-Authors: Kieran P. DonaghyAbstract:Toward the end of his life, a shift occurred in Walter Isard’s thinking about how graduate study in Regional Science should proceed. This shift and its implications for the discipline itself have led me to problematize Walter’s sense of the scientific in Regional Science. In this article, I offer a highly stylized characterization of what Walter thought Regional Science should be about at various points of his life and relate the evolution of his thinking to recent work in the philosophy of Science. I shall argue that Walter’s view of what made Regional Science a Science did not change much, nor did his view of what in general Regional scientists needed to study. I shall also argue that his view of what constituted adequate scholarship did change considerably, as did his views of what Regional Science should encompass in the way of theory and methods and what future progress in the field will entail.
