Recent Submissions

  • Book Reviews 

    Karppi, Ilari; Brouwer, Aleid E.; Strubelt, Wendelin; Hospers, Gert-Jan (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)
    A Tale of More than Two Cities: Deconstructing Sustainable Urbanity: OECD, Rethinking Urban Sprawl: Moving towards Sustainable Cities, OECD Publishing, Paris 2018, 166 pages; Nico TILLIE, Synergetic Urban Landscape Planning ...
  • An Integrative Modelling Approach to Analyse Landscape Dynamics Through Intensity Analysis and Cellular Automata-Markov Chain Model 

    Hasani, Mohammad; Salmanmahiny, Abdolrassoul; Tabrizi, Alireza Mikaeili (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)
    The goal of this study is offer a deep understanding of the landscape dynamics in the Gorgan Township, the Golestan Province, Iran. Landsat satellite imagery of two different time thresholds, i.e. the years 1992 and 2011, ...
  • Transit in Regional Economic Development: The Case of the Kaliningrad Exclave 

    Voloshenko, Ksenia Yu.; Gumenyuk, Ivan S.; Arne Roos, Nils Göran (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)
    The study analyses the role of the transit function in the development of a regional transport system drawing on the example of the Kaliningrad exclave region (Russia). The article studies the role and extent of the impact ...
  • Urban Strategic Planning from the Perspective of Well-Being: Evaluation of the Hungarian Practice 

    Bajmócy, Zoltán; Gébert, Judit; Málovics, György; Berki, Boglárka Méreiné; Juhász, Judit (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)
    The present paper evaluates Hungarian strategic urban planning from the perspective of well-being. It conceptualises well-being in line with Amartya Sen’s capability approach (CA). We argue that the CA provides a meaningful ...
  • Primer on the Cluster Impact on Internationalisation in the Form of FDI in the Time of Industry 4.0 

    Götz, Marta (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)
    The novelty of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) as a research topic means that the literature covering the interrelations between digital business transformation and categories such as internationalisation, foreign direct investment ...
  • The Mortality Structure of Populations the Demographic and Socio-Economic Situation in European Union Countries: Development and Differentiation in the Period 2011–2014 

    Hübelová, Dana; Kozumplíková, Alice; Walicová, Veronika (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)
    The purpose of the study is to compare the differentiation of the demographic and socio-economic indicators and the structure of mortality of the population in EU countries in the period 2011–2014. The composite indicator ...
  • How Innovation Districts (Do Not) Work: the Case Study of Cracow 

    Gądecki, Jacek; Afeltowicz, Łukasz; Anielska, Karolina; Morawska, Ilona (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)
    This article is an attempt to answer the question: how one selects a neighbourhood to develop an innovation district, using the case of Cracow. This article mainly refers to the issue of the shape of innovation districts, ...
  • The Rise of Creative Hubs in Istanbul 

    Parlak, Meltem; Baycan, Tüzin (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)
    This study investigates the emergence and the rise of Creative Hubs (CHs) in Istanbul, which as Turkey’s economic capital contains most of its creative workforce and the largest number of its CHs. In the last 10 years, the ...
  • The Role of Proximity in Resources Exchanged by Incubatees of Biopartner Center Leiden, the Netherlands 

    Schutjens, Veronique; Kruger, Maarten (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)
    Subject literature assumes that spatial proximity stimulates collaboration in thematic clusters. However, even in micro-scale settings, resource exchange is rare or entails only tangible resources. We empirically unravel ...
  • Coworking Spaces as a Driver of the Post-Fordist City: a Tool for Building a Creative Ecosystem 

    Bednář, Pavel; Danko, Lukáš (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)
    Collaborative places nurture creativity and efficiency of cultural and creative industries. Research in collaborative places revealed they are essential for networking and cooperation in the creative ecosystem. The results ...
  • New Geographies of Work: Re-Scaling Micro-Worlds 

    Bürkner, Hans-Joachim; Lange, Bastian (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)
    The recently emerging new types of collaborative work and unconventional workplaces indicate that shifting social and economic practices have odd spatial implications. The diversity of work, mostly based on hybrid social ...
  • Studies of Proximity in Coworking Spaces: the Basic Conceptual Challenges 

    Micek, Grzegorz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)
    The article aims to identify main research challenges in studying coworking spaces (CSs) within the field of economic geography. It combines the perspective of proximity economics with the growing body of papers about ...
  • Exploring Proximities in Coworking Spaces: Evidence from Italy 

    Mariotti, Ilaria; Akhavan, Mina (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)
    Since the mid-2000s, the rising phenomenon of coworking spaces (CSs) has provided a flexible and mainly affordable solution for freelancers, entrepreneurs, small firms and start-ups, which may had experienced the issues ...
  • Foreword 

    Micek, Grzegorz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)