Regional / urban economics

Exploring the ways in which an integrated landscape vision can help deliver regional, national, and international agendas, this book investigates how a new idea of landscape can reimagine governance, policy, economics, culture, identity, health, transport, and development priorities by connecting in a more powerful and meaningful way with local aspirations and demands.

While sharing some characteristics with other middle-income countries, South Africa is a country with a unique economic history and distinctive economic features.

While sharing some characteristics with other middle-income countries, South Africa is a country with a unique economic history and distinctive economic features.

Accounts of corruption in Africa and the Global South are generally overly simplistic and macro-oriented, and commonly disconnect everyday (petty) corruption from political (grand) corruption.

Accounts of corruption in Africa and the Global South are generally overly simplistic and macro-oriented, and commonly disconnect everyday (petty) corruption from political (grand) corruption.

With cities acting as magnets for population concentration and economic growth, urban planning takes a center stage.

Urbanization is one of the most important phenomena in economic development.

Urbanization is one of the most important phenomena in economic development.

How does public transport work in an African city under neoliberalism?

How does public transport work in an African city under neoliberalism?

The economy has been brutal to American workers for several decades.

The economy has been brutal to American workers for several decades.

When Michael Bloomberg handed over the city to Bill de Blasio, New York and the country were experiencing record levels of income inequality.

When Michael Bloomberg handed over the city to Bill de Blasio, New York and the country were experiencing record levels of income inequality.

In the last quarter century, a new form of iconic architecture has appeared throughout the world's major cities.

In the last quarter century, a new form of iconic architecture has appeared throughout the world's major cities.

The so-called miraculous economic development in the southern half of the Korean peninsula has transformed from basically an agrarian economy to that of a major industrial power in a very short time period, and it is now considered one of a dozen or so of industrialized countries in the world.

Reigning theories of urban power suggest that in a world dominated by footloose transnational capital, cities have little capacity to effect social change.

Reigning theories of urban power suggest that in a world dominated by footloose transnational capital, cities have little capacity to effect social change.

In 150 years Italy transformed itself from a poor and backward country into one where living standards are among the highest in the world.

That some cities are vibrant while others are in decline is starkly apparent.

That some cities are vibrant while others are in decline is starkly apparent.

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Spatial Regression Analysis Using Eigenvector Spatial Filtering provides theoretical foundations and guides practical implementation of the Moran eigenvector spatial filtering (MESF) technique.

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

Through the analysis of Indian metropolises, this volume critiques the reality of "e;entrepreneurial governance"e; that has emerged as a major urban development practice in cities of the global south.

This volume gathers the latest advances and innovations in the triple helix of university-industry-government relations, as presented by leading international researchers at the II International Triple Helix Summit 2018, held in Dubai, UAE on November 10-13, 2018, which brought together experts, practitioners and academics across disciplines that address the dynamics of government, industry and academia.

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.

Replete with case studies, Waking the Asian Pacific Cooperative Potential applies a novel theoretical framework to aid in understanding meaningful change in cooperative firms, mutual firms, collectives, and communes, focusing in particular on the underexamined Asia Pacific region.

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

Spatial Regression Analysis Using Eigenvector Spatial Filtering provides theoretical foundations and guides practical implementation of the Moran eigenvector spatial filtering (MESF) technique.

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.

Microeconomic Modeling in Urban Science proposes an interdisciplinary framework for the analysis of urban systems.

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.

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

Just as we learn from, influence, and are influenced by others, our social interactions drive economic growth in cities, regions, and nations--determining where households live, how children learn, and what cities and firms produce.

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.

This book highlights current concepts of Social Urbanism, the contemporary set of multiple and interdisciplinary urban studies that have emerged mainly from the complex realities of Latin American cities.

In 2008, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centers (UPMC) hoisted its logo atop the U.

Over the past decade, cities have come into closer contact and conflict with new technologies.

This book addresses sustainability thinking and the bigger picture, by taking into consideration how and from where contemporary schools of thought emerged approximately a quarter-century ago.

Contemporary Chinese rural life is placed in sharp theoretical and practical focus in this book.

Routledge Handbook on Labour in Construction and Human Settlements presents a detailed and comprehensive examination of the relationship between labour and the built environment, and synergises these critical focus areas in innovative ways.

The book explores approaches, methods and best practices related to health promotion in urban areas.

Das Buch unterstützt bei der Anwendung der Verfahren für die Planungspraxis zur stätischen (urbanen) Verkehrssystemen und gibt Anleitung für die Interpretation der Ergebnisse.

Housing matters to people, be they owner, renter, housing provider, homeless individual, housing professional, or policymaker.

As the world has transformed, so have cities.

Since the early 1990s, federal transportation laws have slowly started to level the playing field between highway and alternative transportation strategies, as well as between older and newer communities.

Advocates of growth management and smart growth often propose policies that raise housing prices, thereby making housing less affordable to many households trying to buy or rent homes.