Regional / urban economics

In a series of essays, this book describes and analyzes the concept and theory of the recent smart city phenomenon from a global perspective, with a focus on its implementation around the world.

This book explores the perilous situation that faced the Detroit Institute of Arts during the city's bankruptcy, when creditors considered it a "e;nonessential asset"e; that might be sold to settle Detroit's debts.

This book examines the phenomenon of urban fear - the increasing anxiety over crime and violence in Western cities despite their high safety - with a view to developing a comprehensive, critical, exploratory theory of fear, space, and urban planning that unravels the paradoxes of their mutual relations.

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

This book introduces readers to neo-mercantile planning theory in the context of spatial regional integration in Africa.

This volume provides the most current research on smart cities.

This book introduces the readers to the new concept of cognitive cities.

This book examines how privatization has transformed cities, particularly through the role of Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in the revitalization of America's downtown.

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.

This volume provides the most current research on smart cities.

This book explores the perilous situation that faced the Detroit Institute of Arts during the city's bankruptcy, when creditors considered it a "e;nonessential asset"e; that might be sold to settle Detroit's debts.

In the panorama of studies related to the ability of lands to support both natural processes and agricultural production activities, this research introduces a still unexplored or under-studied theme which is that of the relationship between urban sprawl in its various forms and land quality.

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

Die Kreuzfahrtbranche boomt: Die Häfen verzeichnen seit Jahren eine stetige Zunahme an Anläufen und Passagieren.

Die Kreuzfahrtbranche boomt: Die Häfen verzeichnen seit Jahren eine stetige Zunahme an Anläufen und Passagieren.

The fateful year 2020 brought dramatic challenges to American cities.

This book highlights recent findings in civil and environmental engineering and urban planning, and provides an overview of the state of the art in these fields, mainly in Russia and Eastern Europe.

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 is a visual guide to the territorial dynamics operating within a territory.

Today, cities are being intensively reshaped by unexpected dynamics.

This book collects the best papers presented at a recent conference organized by SIEV (Italian Society of Appraisal and Valuation) to promote the interaction between Appraisal and Valuation and other social sciences to study the effects of migration on value and social, spatial and economic systems in a multicultural city.

This book examines the role of the evaluation models in decision-making processes for the construction of circular cities in the digital revolution.

This book focuses on the emergence of COVID-19 and climate change as twin mega risks to cities of both developed and developing countries.

This book presents and critically evaluates the results of a European territorial cooperation project addressing the planning challenge of brownfield transformation in fragile territories.

This book defines the dilemmas related to the interface between legal regulations and planning practice in the spatial management system.

This book is a visual guide to the territorial dynamics operating within a territory.

This book offers an overview of Russian and international experience in developing the concept of future cities and its practical implementation.

In the panorama of studies related to the ability of lands to support both natural processes and agricultural production activities, this research introduces a still unexplored or under-studied theme which is that of the relationship between urban sprawl in its various forms and land quality.

This book explores the effects of covid-19 crisis on cities and urban areas and proposes approaches and solutions to invert the pandemic's negative impact.

This book explores the growing spatial inequality in contemporary cities, and the opportunity of reframing the role of public open space as a tool of inclusion in a context of an increasing economic gap between the urban poor and rich.

This book highlights recent findings in civil and environmental engineering and urban planning, and provides an overview of the state of the art in these fields, mainly in Russia and Eastern Europe.

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.

Cities are experiencing unprecedented times.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of construction engineering, as presented by researchers and engineers at the Digital Technologies in Construction Engineering conference, held in Belgorod, Russia, on June 8-9, 2021.

The book presents a methodology for detecting intervention needs on existing healthcare buildings and estimating the related costs, to perform a sustainable financial planning for modernization, regulatory adjustment and performance upgrade.

This book gathers selected contributions in the field of civil and construction engineering, as presented by international researchers and engineers at the 2nd International Scientific Conference on Socio-Technical Construction and Civil Engineering (STCCE), held in Kazan, Russia on April 21-28 2021.

Manufacturing of products in urban production sites is connected to unique potentials, yet also to specific challenges.

This book presents an in-depth study to show that a sustainable future urban life is possible.

This book provides an interdisciplinary lens for exploring, assessing, and coming to new understandings of smart cities and regions, focusing on the six dimensions of sensing, awareness, learning, openness, innovation, and disruption.

This book analyses the effectiveness of policies adopted in cluster promotion, using complexity thinking and evolutionary economic geography approaches.

The book reflects on how intelligent urban regeneration can be an extraordinary driver of sustainable social and economic progress.

This professional guidebook highlights brand development and management for cities, regions, countries, and destinations.

This book gathers together innovative research and practical findings relating to urban mobility transformation.

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

Today, cities are being intensively reshaped by unexpected dynamics.

This book illustrates and discusses the main characteristics of port-city development dynamics with a focus on the fast-growing city-states of the Middle East, which are emerging as key players in logistics and the global supply chain.