Review of Urban & Regional Development Studies

Review of Urban & Regional Development Studies (RURDS) focuses on issues of immediate practical interest to those involved in policy formation and implementation. Articles contain rigorous empirical analysis, with many emphasizing policy relevance and the operational aspects of the academic disciplines, while others focus on theoretical and methodological issues. Interdisciplinary and international in perspective, RURDS has a wide appeal: in addition to scholars, readership includes planners, engineers and managers in government, business and development agencies worldwide.

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Read the top Review of Urban & Regional Development Studies articles online:

Globalization And Stages Of Development: An Exploratory Analysis
Rashmi Umesh Arora

Wage inequality in Turkey: Decomposition by statistical regions, 1980–2001
Adem Yavuz Elveren

Determinants of city growth and output in India
Kala Seetharam Sridhar

Firm location: Firm competences, financial structure and regional determinants
Constantina Kottaridi and Spyros Lioukas

Structural change and growth in China under economic reforms: Patterns, causes and implications
Yanqing Jiang

We are delighted to announce the winner of the RURDS Prize for Best Paper selected by the journal’s Editors:

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Scale Economies of the Franchised Buses and Ferries of Hong Kong, 1948-1998
Volume 24, Issue 3

The prize is announced in Issue 1, Volume 25 of the journal