Regional / urban economics

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.

An economist examines the decline of American cities and offers a strategy for their rejuvenation based on respect for property rights.

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.

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.

This book argues that complexity theory offers new departures for (spatial-) economic modelling.

Originally published in 1996, Urban Land and Property Markets describes the intricacies of the Italian urban planning system, and the interconnections between the property sector, the national economy, and recent historical developments, including the new challenges facing Italy after the early 1990s collapse of the party system.

Originally published in 1996, Urban Land and Property Markets describes the intricacies of the Italian urban planning system, and the interconnections between the property sector, the national economy, and recent historical developments, including the new challenges facing Italy after the early 1990s collapse of the party system.

The book focuses on the processes of urban restructuring, power relations and the political economy of touristic authenticity.

The book focuses on the processes of urban restructuring, power relations and the political economy of touristic authenticity.

We live in the 'urban century'.

We live in the 'urban century'.

This book provides readers with a basic understanding of the principles that underlie real estate development.

This book provides readers with a basic understanding of the principles that underlie real estate development.

Understanding Metropolitan Landscapes considers and reflects on the fundamental relationships between metropolitan regions and their landscapes.

Understanding Metropolitan Landscapes considers and reflects on the fundamental relationships between metropolitan regions and their landscapes.

High Rise and Fall tells the story of how the European commercial property industry transformed from a local, small-scale business to an international, financially sophisticated, multi-billion-euro industry that was ultimately devastated by the 2008 crash.