Regional / urban economics

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 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.

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.

The field of urban economics is built on an analysis of housing prices, land rents, housing consumption, spatial form, and other aspects of urban residential structure.

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.

This book highlights advanced applications of geospatial data analytics to address real-world issues in urban society.

This book collects articles on the achievements and experience of special economic zones during the China's Reform and Opening-up in the past 40 years.

This book highlights various dimensions of human habitats in 21st Century India.

This book presents articles from the International Conference on Sustainable Design, Engineering, Management, and Sciences (ICSDEMS 2020), held in Bali, Indonesia.

This report presents the outcomes of a survey project of the National Academy of Economic Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme.

This book, the second volume, highlights 7 out of a total of about 36 megacities in the World which by definition have 10 million inhabitants.

This book, the first volume, highlights 8 out of a total of about 36 megacities in the World which by definition have 10 million inhabitants.

This book highlights major quantitative and qualitative methods and approaches used in the field of urban analysis.

This book focuses on the level of industrial synergy development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China.

This book is a pioneering work to position the creative city concept within Malaysian urban development discourse.

This book presents selected articles from the 15th International Asian Urbanization Conference, held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on November 27-30, 2019.

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

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.

This book presents a collection of proposed offshore and nearshore settlements in response to the emerging consequences of climate change.

This book discusses and analyzes past and ongoing national urban policy development efforts from around the globe, particularly those that can lead the way toward smart and green cities.

The book presents academic research on urbanization, urban poverty and slum development initiatives in South Asia, in general, and Bangladesh, in particular, in the light of global slum upgrading initiatives.