Regional / urban economics

This guidebook for students offers a survey of comparative politics intended for use in Hong Kong.

This book features latest research insights into the study of the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Dieses Buch beschreibt die Entwicklungen im Bundesland Nordrhein-Westfalen (NRW) im Themenfeld Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) aus völlig unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln.

This book discusses human factors research directed towards realizing and assessing sustainability in the built environment and architecture.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of building design and construction, by focusing on new design solutions for buildings and new technologies creation for construction, as presented by researchers and engineers at the 3rd International Conference Building Innovations (ICBI), held in Poltava - Baku, Ukraine - Azerbaijan, on June 1-2, 2020.

This book uses empirical research to examine fluctuations and periodicities in housing markets in the United Kingdom.

The emergence of sharing mobility is having a profound impact on urban landscapes.

This book answers the question of how to design a sharing system that can promote sustained, meaningful, and socially constructive sharing practices in today's cities.

This pioneering book explores the meaning of the term "e;Black social economy,"e; a self-help sector that remains autonomous from the state and business sectors.

This book, based on extensive international collaborative research, highlights the state-of-the-art design of smart living for metropolises, megacities, and metacities, as well as at the community and neighbourhood level.

A glance at a list of America's fastest growing "e;"e;cities"e;"e; reveals quite a surprise: most are really overgrown suburbs.

The Asian Economic Integration Report is an annual review of Asia's regional economic cooperation and integration.

The year 2120 may appear a long way into the future but will come quickly.

In recent decades, economically disadvantaged Americans have become more residentially segregated from other communities: they are increasingly likely to live in high-poverty neighborhoods that are spatially isolated with few civic resources.

This volume explores one of the most complex labour landscapes of India - the urban daily labour market.

This book explores the concept of livable cities, where people enjoy living and being, and examines indicators of citizens' well-being in relation to the urban environment.

This book reviews the character and impacts of 'actually-existing' neoliberalism in Ireland.

Since the early 1990s, governments and development agencies have become increasingly preoccupied with the pursuit of regional competitiveness.

This unique volume takes a very different approach to the county-level governance and the land system reform in China.

Modernization has effected a profound change in human civilizations and is a global trend since the 18th century.

Contemporary Chinese rural life is placed in sharp theoretical and practical focus in this book.

This book provides an evenhanded coverage of Korea's turbulent history during the last one hundred years, from seclusion to division.

Historical Perspectives on East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine brings together over fifty papers by leading contemporary historians from more than a dozen nations.

With the impending demise of modernist planning, the footprints and corpses of failed modernist visions are littered everywhere.

Asian Alterity is an interdisciplinary theoretical analysis that vigorously contests the homogeneity of the mainstream Eurocentric values.

The oneness of China is the norm.

How does a city make sound policy decisions on sustainability and governance while simultaneously promoting economic growth and development excellence?

With cities rapidly encroaching onto surrounding lands, the notion of "e;eco-city"e; proposes an innovative yet pragmatic approach to designing, building and operating cities in a way that the destructive impact of human urban activity upon nature will be significantly reduced.

As China rises to become the world's largest economy, half a billion rural villagers are expected to become urban residents in the coming decades.

With more and more of the world's population projected to live in urban areas, the life and death of cities has become a key factor in urban development considerations.

This book aims to investigate how cities in China's rust belt restructure their urban industries and economies.

This book follows the citizenship-based approach and interrogates the policies on urban village redevelopment from a perspective of social exclusion and inclusion.

This book investigates resource-constrained environments in the tropics and subtropics where people's lives and businesses are affected, and adaptations occur periodically.

This book provides a comparative analysis of the regional development strategies of east, west, northeast and central China and the development of important economic regions including the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region, the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, Chengdu-Chongqing and central-southern areas of Liaoning Province.

This report was jointly launched by the National Academy of Economic Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and UN-HABITAT.

Shandong is a thriving economic centre with a Gross Regional Domestic Product of RMB 6.

Lecture Notes in Urban Economics and Urban Policy provides a wide-ranging introduction to urban economics and urban policy by Professor John Yinger, one of the world's leading scholars in urban economics.

This comprehensive reference text is a collection of important research findings on the latest developments in network modeling for optimization of smart cities.

This book highlights the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cities.

This book aims to investigate how cities in China's rust belt restructure their urban industries and economies.

This book of CRIOCM 2021 (26th International Conference on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate) presents the latest developments in real estate and construction management around the globe.

The book focuses on the key contemporary issue of Climate change, constructing the narrative from traditions' of Urbanism through its Axiology and Epistemology.

This book highlights various solutions for the required transition of coastal cities due to +1m sea level rise.

This book highlights a research-based design proposal which has the purpose of relieving from lack of global food supply.

This book explores the public acceptability of congestion pricing in the Chinese context.

This book offers a concise and yet diverse study on the Chengzhongcun.

This book seeks to shed light on the role of environment-friendly transport accessibility in determining property prices in Chinese cities.

The book is the first to explore the history and political significance of the Japanese public housing program.