Peter Townroe

A. Books, Published Reports and Research Monographs (as author)

1991

Bypasses for Communities (with Rosalie Hill), British Road Federation, London.

1990

Urban Labour Markets: Reviews of Urban Research (with Barry Moore), HMSO for the Department of the Environment, London.

The Impact of ‘Community Post Office’ Status on Rural Sub-Post Offices. Rural Development Commission, Rural Research Series, No.8.

1988

Norwich: A Time of Opportunity. The 1987 Norwich Area Economic Study, Economic Research Centre, University of East Anglia.

1980

Local External Economies for British Manufacturing Industry (with Nigel Roberts), Gower Press, Farnborough.

1979

Industrial Movement: Experience in the US and UK, Saxon House, Farnborough.

Policy Instruments for Large Cities in LDC’s. Pergamon Progress in Planning Series, Oxford.

1976

Planning Industrial Location, Leonard Hill, London.

1971

Industrial Location Decisions: A study in Management Behaviour, Occasional Paper No 15, Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Birmingham.

B. Books, Published Reports and Research Monographs (as editor)

1992

Regional Development in the 1990s: The British Isles in Transition (edited jointly with Ron Martin), Jessica Kingsley Publishing, London.

1974

Social and Political Consequences of the Motor Car (editor), David and Charles.

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C. Chapters in Books

2006

‘Techonlogy Transferto Small Businesses in the Tourist Sector: Supporting Regional Economic Development’, in M.Giaoutzi and P. Nijkamp (eds), Tourism and Regional Development, Ashgate, Aldershot.

2005

‘Weighing Environmental Factors in the Appraisal of Major Highway Investments’ in S. Sedlacek and G. Weiss (eds), Spillovers and Innovations: City Environment and the Enemy.

2004

‘The Growth and Development of Norwich since 1945’, in R. Wilson, C. Clark and C. Rawcliffe (eds), The History of Norwich, Hambledon, London.

1999

‘The East of England’ (with Barry Moore) in M. Breheny (ed), The People: Where Will They Work, Town and Country Planning Association, London.

1997

‘Non-User Benefits from Investments in Urban Light Rail: Evidence from Sheffield’ in D. Banister (ed), Transport and the Environment, E.S. Spon, London.

1996

‘Sheffield: Restructuring of a City Economy over Five Decades’, in N. Harris and I Fabricius (eds), Cities and Structural Adjustment,UCL Press, London, pp.200-213.

‘New Economic Rules: The Changing Structure of the City Economy’, in N. Harris and I. Fabricius (eds), Cities and Structural Adjustment,UCL Press, London, pp.13-28.

‘Urban Sustainability and Social Cohesion’, in C. Pugh (ed), Sustainability, The Environment and Urbanisation, Earthscan, London, pp.179-196.

1995

‘The Coming of Supertram: Research on the Impact of Urban Rail Development in Sheffield’ in D. Banister (ed), Transport and Urban Development, Chapman and Wall, pp.162-181.

1994

‘Norwich: The Changing Economy of a Regional Capital’, in P Kooij and P Pellenbarg (eds), Regional Capitals : Past, Present, Prospects, Van Gorcum, Assen, pp.149-164.

1993

‘Founding a New Business in the Countryside’ (with K Mallalieu), in J Curran and D Storey (eds), Small Firms in Urban and Rural Locations, Routledge, London, pp.17-53.

1992

‘Agenda for the Nineties’, in P M Townroe and R L Martin (eds) Regional Development in the 1990s: The British Isles in Transition, Jessica Kingsley Publishing, London, pp.315-319.

‘East Anglia’ in P M Townroe and R L Martin (eds), Regional Development in the 1990’s: The British Isles in Transition, Jessica Kingsley Publishing, London, pp.12-24.

‘Introduction’ (with Ron Martin) in P M Townroe and R L Martin (eds), Regional Development in the 1990’s: The British Isles in Transition, Jessica Kingsley Publishing, London, pp.12-24.

‘Decision Making in Decentralising Companies in a City Region: The Case of Greater Sao Paolo’, in A Morris and S Lowder (eds), Decentralisaiton in Latin America: An Evaluation, Praeger, New York, pp.93-110.

1991

‘Infrastructure for Regional Development: Advice and Support to New Small Businesses’ (with Karl Mallalieu), in R W Vickerman (ed), Infrastructure and Regional Development, Pion, pp.176-188.

1990

‘Regional Development Potentials and Innovation Capacities’, in H J Ewers and J Allesch (eds), Innovation and Regional Development. Strategies, Instruments and Policy Coordination, de Gruyter, Berlin, pp.71-82.

‘Urban Sustainability Analysis: New Research Departures’ (with P Nijkamp) in P Nijkamp (ed), Sustainability of Urban Systems: A Cross-National Evolutionary Analysis of Urban Innovation, Gower, pp 305-314.

‘Innovation and Urban Development: A British Example’, in P Nijkamp (ed), Sustainability of Urban Systems. A Cross National Evolutionary Analysis of Urban Innovation, Gower, pp. 305-314.

1987

‘Changing Technology and Changing Company Form: Plant Locatoins and Regional Economic Development in the United Kingdom’, in W-Y Kwon (ed), Proceedings of the International Workshop on National Spatial Development in Korea, Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements, Seoul.

1986

‘Technological Change in the Service Sector: Urban and Regional Implications’, in P Nijkamp (ed) Technological Change, Employment and Spatial Dynamics, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

‘National Spatial Strategies in Third World Countries’, in CS Yadav (ed), Urban Planning and Policies, Part B, Cross-Cultural Urban Policies, Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi.

‘Regional Policies in Developing Countries’ (with Harry w Richardson), in P Nijkamp (ed), Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, Volume 1, Regional Economics, North Holland, Amsterdam.

1985

‘Casting Bread Upon the Waters: What is “success” in Local Economic Policy Making?’ in P Wilmers and B Bourdillon (eds), Managing the Local Economy: Planning for Employment and Economic Development, Geo Books, Norwich.

‘Trends and Contexts for Employment Change in the UK Economy’, in P Wilmers and B Bourdillon (eds), Managing the Local Economy: Planning for Employment and Economic Development, Geo Books, Norwich.

1984

‘Pollution Control Policy and the Location of Industry’ (with V Thomas), in Progress in Resource Management and Environmental Planning, (K Turner and T O’Riordan (eds), Wiley.

1983

‘Industrial Movement: Experience in the United Kingdom’ in WTM Molle and L H Klassen (ed), Industrial Migration and Mobility in the European Community, Gower Press.

1980

‘Industrial Location within the City Region. Lessons from the UK Experience’, in Rilocalizzazione Industriale e Aree Industriali Attrezzate, Finpiemonte, Turin.

1979

‘Externalities for Manufacturing Industry in British Sub-Regions’, Chapter 10 in M J Breheny (ed), Developments in Urban and Regional Analysis, Volume 10 of London Papers in Regional Science, Pion, London.

1974

‘Industrial Location Search Behaviour and Regional Developments’, Chapter in J Rees and P Newby (eds), Behavioural Perspectives in Geography, Monographs in Geography No 2, Middlesex Polytechnic.

‘Regional Policy and Planning: Future Research Priorities’, Chapter 13 in MEC Sant, (ed), Regional Policy and Planning for Europe, Saxon House.

‘Post-move Stability and the Location Decision’, Chapter 11 in FEI Hamilton (ed); Spatial Perspectives on Industrial Organisation and Decision Taking, Wiley.

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D. Papers in Academic Journals

1999

‘Rising real incomes and enough jobs: the contribution of a British national spatial planning framework’, Town Planning Review 70(3), pp.295-312.

1995

‘The evaluation of public transport within cities’, Annals of Regional Science 29, pp.175-188 (with G.Dabinett).

‘The role of transport in urban regeneration’, New Economy 2(1) , pp.14-18.

1993

‘Compounding confusion over coal: a reaction to the White Paper’, Regional Studies 27(8), pp.827-833 (with G.Dabinett).

‘The spatial impact of European integration’, Journal of Regional Policy 13(2), pp.185-204.

1992

‘A company life history approach to economic dynamics and innovation’, Asian Journal of Economics and Social Studies 11(2), pp.89-100 (with M. van Geenhuizen and P.Nijkamp).

‘Company life history analysis and technogenesis: a spatial view’, Technological Forecasting and Social Change 41, pp.13-28 (with M.van Geenhuizen and P. Nijkamp).

1991

‘Rationality in industrial location decisions’, Urban Studies 28(3), 383-393.

1990

‘Comment on Hansen on intermediate cities’, Regional Development Dialogue 11(1), pp.77-79.

‘The regional economic development potential of plant science biotechnology’, ERU Research Papers, Stockholm.

1989

‘The case for experimental adaptive restraint policies in developing metropolitan areas’, International Regional Science Review 12(2), pp.131-146.

1987

‘Local authority aid to small firms in neighbouring areas’, Local Economy 9(3), pp.169-180 (with P.A. Brenton).

1986

‘Regional economic development policy in a mixed economy and a Welfare State’, Journal of Regional Policy 3, pp.355-373.

1985

‘A discriminant analysis of the 1980 São Paulo Industrial location study’, Environment and Planning A 17(1), pp.115-131.

‘Intra industry productivity differences in São Paulo State manufacturing plants’, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 121(4), pp.722-740 (with L.Seikauskas and E. Hansen).

‘Sea-borne trade between the UK and Western Europe: changing patterns in ports and road links’, Revue Belge du Transport 85(1), pp.47-53 (with P.A.Brenton).

1984

‘Sectoral influences on spatial change in manufacturing in São Paulo State, Brazil, 1960-1975’, Revista Geografia Braziliera 4.6(2), pp.363-380.

‘Polarisation reversal in the State of São Paulo, Brazil’, Regional Studies 18(1), pp.45-54 (with D.Keen).

‘Spatial policy and metropolitan economic growth in São Paulo, Brazil’, Geoforum 15(2), pp.143-154.

‘The changing economic environment fo spatial policies in the Third World’, Geoforum 15(3), pp.335-347.

‘Who benefits from industrial decentralisation? Response to Storper’, Regional Studies 18(4), (with A.Hamer).

1983

‘Location factors in the decentralisation of industry: a survey of Metropolitan São Paulo, Brazil’, World Bank Staff Working Papers No.517.

1979

‘The design of local economic development policies’, Town Planning Review 50(2) , pp.148-163.

1977

‘The Case for for a national Urban Growth Strategy for Pakistan’, Working Paper No 276, Institute for Urban and regional Development, University of California, Berkeley.

1976

‘Settling-in Costs in Mobile Plants: A Note’, Urban Studies 13(1), pp67-70.

1975

‘Branch Plants and Regional Development’, Town Planning Review 46(1), pp 47-62.

‘The Labour Factor in the Post-Move Experience of Mobile Companies’, Regional Studies 9(4), pp335-347.

1974

‘The Experience of Migrant Industrial Plants in the Northern Region’, Planning Outlook 15, pp18-34 (with R Morley).

1973

‘The supply of Mobile Industry: A cross-sectional Analysis’, Regional and Urban Economics 2(4), pp 371-386.

‘Linkage Adjustment Following Industrial Movement’, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 64(3), pp137-144 (with M.J.Moseley).

1972

‘Some Behavioural Considerations in the Industrial Location Decision’, Regional Studies 6(3), pp261-272.

1970

‘Industrial Linkage Agglomeration and External Economies’, Journal of the Town Planning Institute 56(1), pp18-20.

1969

‘Locational Choice and the Individual Firm’, Regional Studies 3(1), pp. 15-24.

‘Industrial Structure and Regional Economic Growth’, Scottish Journal of Political Economy XVI, pp95-98.

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