Regional / urban economics

This Handbook is the first to explore the emergent field of 'placemaking' in terms of the recent research, teaching and learning, and practice agenda for the next few years.

Cities have long been recognized as key sites for fostering new communication practices.

Cities have long been recognized as key sites for fostering new communication practices.

This book documents the experiences, development, and prospects of the construction industry in numerous developing countries.

This book documents the experiences, development, and prospects of the construction industry in numerous developing countries.

This book examines the housing crisis in India and underlines the need for formal affordable housing markets.

This book examines the housing crisis in India and underlines the need for formal affordable housing markets.

This book examines real estate markets and urban development in Central America, Mexico and The Caribbean (CAMEC).

This book examines real estate markets and urban development in Central America, Mexico and The Caribbean (CAMEC).

As governments increasingly legalize and expand the availability of casinos, hoping to offset the impacts of manufacturing decline through the advancement of gambling commerce, this book examines what casinos do-and do not do-for host communities in terms of economic growth.

This is a comprehensive book on infrastructure development and construction management.

This is a comprehensive book on infrastructure development and construction management.

This book offers insights into the process and the practice of local economic development.

This book offers insights into the process and the practice of local economic development.

As governments increasingly legalize and expand the availability of casinos, hoping to offset the impacts of manufacturing decline through the advancement of gambling commerce, this book examines what casinos do-and do not do-for host communities in terms of economic growth.

Evictions in the UK examines the relationships between tenants, landlords, housing providers and government agencies and the tensions and conflicts that characterise these relations.

Evictions in the UK examines the relationships between tenants, landlords, housing providers and government agencies and the tensions and conflicts that characterise these relations.

Real Estate Crowdfunding: An Insider's Guide to Investing Online introduces the reader to basic real estate investment concepts and then takes a deep dive into how to invest passively yet wisely in real estate syndications.

Real Estate Crowdfunding: An Insider's Guide to Investing Online introduces the reader to basic real estate investment concepts and then takes a deep dive into how to invest passively yet wisely in real estate syndications.

Real property in the form of investment, ownership and use pervades almost every aspect of daily lives and represents over 40% of Australia's wealth.

Real property in the form of investment, ownership and use pervades almost every aspect of daily lives and represents over 40% of Australia's wealth.

This textbook is a comprehensive introduction to applied spatial data analysis using R.

This textbook is a comprehensive introduction to applied spatial data analysis using R.

Market Analysis for Real Estate is a comprehensive introduction to how real estate markets work and the analytical tools and techniques that can be used to identify and interpret market signals.

Market Analysis for Real Estate is a comprehensive introduction to how real estate markets work and the analytical tools and techniques that can be used to identify and interpret market signals.

In recent decades, the importance of creative cluster development has gained increasing recognition from national and regional governments.

In recent decades, the importance of creative cluster development has gained increasing recognition from national and regional governments.

This book unravels the complex mechanisms involved in global real estate capital markets, enabling the reader to understand how they have grown and evolved, how they function, what determines market pricing, and how the public and private debt and equity markets are linked to each other.

This book demonstrates how the various legal efforts employed to eradicate global urban poverty also play a significant role in shaping it.

Riobamba and Cuenca, two intermediate cities in Ecuador, have become part of global networks through transnational migration, incoming remittances, tourism, and global economic connections.

This edited volume portrays marketplaces from a mobility perspective as dynamic and open entities consisting of flows of people, goods and ideas.

Readers interested in urban studies and recent Detroit history will appreciate this thoughtful assessment of the best practices and obvious errors when it comes to reinventing our cities.

During the past decade, dozens of large cities lost population as jobs and people kept moving to the suburbs.

Some of today's best urban leaders don't work for the governmentthey can be found in nonprofit organizations that serve the working class and poor populations.

Gated communities are a new "e;hot button"e; in many North American cities.

For the past three decades, the federal government has targeted the poorest areas of American cities with a succession of antipoverty initiatives, yet these urban neighborhoods continue to decline.

Academics, community activists, and politicians have rediscovered regionalism, insisting that regions are critical functional units in a world-wide economy and, just as important, critical functional units in individual American lives.

Large urban school systems have been the weakest link in American education, driving middle-class families into the suburbs while contributing mightily to the racial learning gap.

Readers interested in urban studies and recent Detroit history will appreciate this thoughtful assessment of the best practices and obvious errors when it comes to reinventing our cities.

While the nation's GDP has doubled in the last thirty years, significant increases in family income have been restricted to a small subset of the American population.

Today, the Bay Area is home to the most successful knowledge economy in America, while Los Angeles has fallen progressively further behind its neighbor to the north and a number of other American metropolises.

American cities, once economic and social launch pads for their residents, are all too often plagued by poverty and decay.

While aerospace and aircraft form two poles in Montreal and Toronto, Ottawa is Canada's centre for semiconductor and telecommunication innovation.

Gossage uses a family-reconstitution method, drawing on local parish registers and manuscript-census schedules, to focus on marriage, household organization, and family size in this context of social and economic change.

The town of Arvida provides a field on which we can observe in microcosm the birth of an industrial town and the development of the population's identity as a community.

Which is more important to New York City's economy, the gleaming corporate office--or the grungy rock club that launches the best new bands?

This volume examines how urban potentiality emerges in performances that reclaim the city, acting as an emancipatory force when dominant patterns of urban behaviour are thrown into crisis.

Which is more important to New York City's economy, the gleaming corporate office--or the grungy rock club that launches the best new bands?

Growth in human consumption is the transcending problem of our times.

This book analyzes the informal practices of contemporary cities through a close dialogue between different research perspectives, with the shared goal of giving voice to informality and evaluating its benefits and potential in a multidimensional key of social factors.