The Changing Space Economy of City-Regions

Delivers the first comprehensive reading material on space economy issues in the Gauteng city-region

Presents the dualism that exists in national and regional economies and formulation of policies intended to cure them

Offers quantitative methods to unravel the spatial patterns of economic life enabling readers to be aware of the methods that can be used to understand regional development processes

Autorentext

Dr. Cheruiyot is a Senior Researcher at the Gauteng City-Region Observatory. He holds a PhD in Regional Development Planning from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA as well as post-graduate training in urban and regional planning and human settlements and bachelor's degree in economics. With over 15 years of working in the field of urban and regional development planning both as a civil servant and a researcher, he has research interests in development (particularly economic development, economic geography or space economics, urban development, regional development and economics, poverty and inequality) and the application of a wide range of quantitative research methods (including cluster analysis, location analysis, spatial econometrics and spatial statistics) to model economic development issues and urban spatial change. Dr. Cheruiyot also teaches quantitative methods and econometrics in the School of Construction Economics and Management at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. City-Regions and their Changing Space Economies.- Chapter 2. The Economic Drivers of Urban Change in the Gauteng City-Region: Past, Present, and Future.- Chapter 3. Assessing the Gauteng City-Region's Global Presence and Positioning through Current Global-City Measures.- Chapter 4. Importance of Industrial Clusters and Inter-Industry Linkages for Regional Policy in the Gauteng City-Region.- Chapter 5. The Evolution of Manufacturing in the Gauteng City-Region: From De-industrialization to Re-industrialization?.- Chapter 6. Unpacking the Changing Economic Geography of Gauteng's Tertiary Sector.- Chapter 7. Locating the Informal Sector in the Gauteng City-Region and Beyond.- Chapter 8. Testing Economic Growth Convergence and its Policy Implications in the Gauteng City-Region.- Chapter 9. Revitalizing Gauteng City-Region Township Economies through Value Chain Development.- Chapter 10. Dualisms in the Gauteng City-Region: Summary and Implications.