Regional / urban economics

This book surveys the historical development, current problems and likely prospects for Eastern Mediterranean port cities, providing contributions from scholars from various disciplines, such as archaeologists, historians, economists, urban planners and architects.

Building the City elaborates new critical insights into the everyday lives of migrant workers in cities around the world.

Bürgerbeteiligung liegt im Trend.

This book seeks to identify and to examine factors and mechanisms underlying the growth and development of smart cities.

461 konkrete Beispiele und Geschichten aus diversen Branchen zeigen, wie vielfältig und spannend Arbeit ist: Es geht um Leben, positive Entwicklungen, leckeres Essen, Gesundheit, neue Berufsbilder, um menschenfreundlichen Wohlstand, Hochhausbau aus Holz und 3D-Druck aus recycelbaren Materialien, Glück, saubere Umwelt und Menschenrechte, Diversität und Biodiversität, Fachkräftegewinnung und kreativ-umgedrehte Bewerbung.

This book addresses the issue of smart and sustainable development in the Mediterranean (MED) region, a distinct part of the world, full of challenges and risks but also opportunities.

The main objective of this book is to provide a multidisciplinary overview of methodological approaches, architectures, platforms, and algorithms for the realization of an Internet of Things (IoT)-based Smart Urban Ecosystem (SUE).

Structural change is an evolutionary process that is often cumulative within territories, improving the quality of life and achieving higher development levels.

As the world has transformed, so have cities.

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

This book surveys the historical development, current problems and likely prospects for Eastern Mediterranean port cities, providing contributions from scholars from various disciplines, such as archaeologists, historians, economists, urban planners and architects.

Consumer (co-)ownership in renewable energy (RE) is essential to the overall success of Energy Transition.

This book discusses existing and future global problems of physical, chemical, biological and societal origins faced by increasingly populated cities and mega-cities, and options to mitigate or eliminate them.

This book explores the role of cities and the urban-rural linkages in spurring innovation embedded in spatial planning, strategic and economic planning, and decision support systems.

This book explores the role of cities and the urban-rural linkages in spurring innovation embedded in spatial planning, strategic and economic planning, and decision support systems.

This book develops a detailed, disaggregated theoretical and empirical framework that explains variations in mass killing by authoritarian regimes globally, with a specific focus on Pakistan, Indonesia, and Malaysia.

This book examines failed new city proposals in Australia to understand the hurdles - environmental, societal, and economic - that have curtailed such visions.

This book seeks to push forward the boundaries of current practices and knowledge to embrace innovative solutions, novel approaches, and grounded technologies within realistic comprehension of economic risks and environmental implications.

This book challenges the quasi-consensus that Latin American countries dominate global homicide rankings mainly due to the illegal nature of drug production and trafficking.

Addressing the continuous need for new growth sectors in post-industrial cities, this book considers the economic significance of wellness from a development policy perspective.

Global cities today are facing fundamental challenges in relation to unaffordable housing and growing economic inequality.

This proceedings volume examines the effects of transport on socio-economic development including innovation, public health and cultural behavior.

This book presents an original methodology for analyzing urban retail systems, addressing the strong retail meltdown (increase in closed corner-shops and dead malls) that is severely affecting cities and suburban areas in Europe and the USA.

This is the Proceedings of the International Workshop Heritagebot 2017 that was held in Cassino, Italy in September 2017.

This book examines the relationship between race, religion, and economics within the black church.

This book discusses Bangladesh's economic and social development that may be called a "e;miracle"e; since the country has achieved remarkable development progress under several unfavorable situations: weak governance and political instabilities, inequality, risks entailed in rapid urbanization, and exposure to severe disaster risks.

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

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

The overall objective of the book is to holistically assess the property tax systems in BRICS megacities.

This book gathers 22 papers which were presented at the 6th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography in Dubrovnik, Croatia on 13-15 October 2016.

This book presents an exploratory account of the origins and dynamics of cities.

This book paints an intimate portrait of an overlooked kind of city that neither grows nor declines drastically.

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

This book investigates the success story of the fast fashion industry-mainly owned by Chinese migrants-in Prato, Italy.

This edited monograph presents the selected papers from RailNewcastle 2016, being held in Newcastle UK, June 2016.

The main objective of this book is to provide a multidisciplinary overview of methodological approaches, architectures, platforms, and algorithms for the realization of an Internet of Things (IoT)-based Smart Urban Ecosystem (SUE).

Consumer (co-)ownership in renewable energy (RE) is essential to the overall success of Energy Transition.

This book offers a selection of the best articles presented at the CUPUM (Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management) Conference, held in the second week of July 2017 at the University of South Australia in Adelaide.

This book guides architects, landscape designers, urban planners, agronomists and society on the implementation of sustainable rooftop farming projects.

This book presents a new economic history of London construction in the early modern period.

This book discusses the science, causes, impacts and risk reduction strategies for climate change and disasters.

This book explores the historical roots of rapid economic growth in South Asia, with reference to politics, markets, resources, and the world economy.

This revised and expanded edition of Colin Price's seminal publication provides a richly comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of landscape economics, a subject which has until now been addressed only in limited aspects.

This book explores the parallels between the Renaissance during the 14th to 16th centuries and the upheavals in human and physical sciences in the 21st Century that herald an insurgent entrepreneurial renaissance.

This is the first study to draw on international research carried out across four EU member states to add to the neglected area of the creative economy of peripheral regions.

This book provides an overview of urban transformations taking place in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the last three decades.

This book examines Warren, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, as a shrinking city facing a crisis of economic downturn, automotive restructuring, high unemployment, and real estate foreclosures.

This book explores statistical models in regional specialization, presenting a brand new measure.

This proceedings volume presents current research on transport sector development, with particular emphasis on sustainable transport development, innovation and transport enterprise growth and survival.

This book focuses on the relationship between the state and economy in the development of cities.