Regional / urban economics

This book highlights original research and recent advances in various fields related to smart cities and their applications.

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 4th International Conference Building Innovations (ICBI), held in Poltava - Baku, Ukraine - Azerbaijan, on May 19-20, 2022.

This book presents trading in local energy markets and communities.

This book presents ways of shaping the built environment sciences and practices for steering the New Urban Agenda in Zimbabwe.

Regionalität als Wettbewerbsvorteil- Mit lokalen Angeboten in eine nachhaltige digitale ZukunftZahlreiche Geschäftsmodelle werden in den kommenden Jahren nicht mehr ertragreich sein.

Regionalität als Wettbewerbsvorteil- Mit lokalen Angeboten in eine nachhaltige digitale ZukunftZahlreiche Geschäftsmodelle werden in den kommenden Jahren nicht mehr ertragreich sein.

The smart city concept, together with the growing importance of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, has a significant impact on city management and governance.

A panoramic account of the urban politics and deep social divisions that gave rise to UberThe first city to fight back against Uber, Washington, D.

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

A collection of international case studies that demonstrate the importance of ideas to urban political developmentIdeas, interests, and institutions are the "e;holy trinity"e; of the study of politics.

How to leverage existing resources to meet the current and future needs of citiesCrumbling streets and bridges.

Today, universities serve as the economic engines and cultural centers of many U.

This publication helps guide investment planning and financing across key urban infrastructure sectors of Azerbaijan to improve the performance of cities---with a focus on economy, equity, and environment.

This publication is the annual report of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Asia's progress in regional cooperation and integration.

Food and architecture, the two pillars of human civilization, have intertwined to such extents to sustain the civilization itself, that the connection between the two has visually ceased to exist.

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In one of the most provocative books ever published on America's social welfare system, economist Janet Currie argues that the modern social safety net is under attack.

Making Cities Work brings together leading writers and scholars on urban America to offer critical perspectives on how to sustain prosperous, livable cities in today's fast-evolving economy.

This book describes the evolution of the community development sector over the past 50 years, and it presents a framework and road map for how community development organizations can advance their mission through strategic partnerships that utilize their core competencies.

This edited collection examines the formation of urban networks and role of gateways in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern world.

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.

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

The book critically reflects on some of the most important novelties and experimentations in the context of the European Union's renewed urban and regional policy in the last programming period, 2014-2020.

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 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.

Light pollution (light smog, light pollution or light emissions) is a fundamental problem in metropolises with effects on flora, fauna and people.

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

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

World population and the number of city dwellers are steadily growing.

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

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

The book discusses how to establish a land-use system for small and medium-sized cities in order to promote low carbon economic development and to ensure sustainable development.

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

The book presents academic research on urbanization, urban poverty and slum development initiatives in South Asia, in general, and Bangladesh, in particular, in the light of global slum upgrading initiatives.

This book applies the contents of a working economist's tool-kit to explain, clearly and intuitively, when and why over the course of four centuries individuals, families, and enterprises decided to locate in or around the lower Hudson River Valley.

This book explores how Japanese cities have transformed since the 1950s by describing housing and urban planning policies, urbanization processes, and maps with GIS analysis.

This book, the first comprehensive overview of housing policy in Australia in 25 years, investigates the many dimensions of housing affordability and government actions that affect affordability outcomes.

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

This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Cities: Opportunities and Challenges (ICSC 2019).

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

This book provides a comparative analysis of the regional development strategies of east, west, northeast and central China and the development of important economic regions including the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region, the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, Chengdu-Chongqing and central-southern areas of Liaoning Province.

This book, the first volume, highlights 8 out of a total of about 36 megacities in the World which by definition have 10 million inhabitants.

This book highlights major quantitative and qualitative methods and approaches used in the field of urban analysis.

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

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.

Efforts to promote the economic development of individual localities engage the attention of academics, students and professionals.

This book features a selection of the best papers presented at two SIEV seminars held in Venice, Italy, in September 2017 and 2018, in the context of the Urbanpromo Green events.