This book takes a theoretical and empirical distance from urban slums/low-income settlements as a threat to environmental sustainability and recast them as places where environmentally rehabilitative and circular practices occur-drawing on the theoretical lens of the circular economy (CE).
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 provides an overview of the history, basic concepts, and provision models of infrastructure, significant theories on infrastructure economics, practices at home and abroad that reflect the economic development effects of infrastructure, and four infrastructure economic growth models.
In recent years, concerned governments, businesses, and civic groups have launched ambitious programs of community development designed to halt, and even reverse, decades of urban decline.
Ländliche Strukturen inmitten urbaner Räume - eine grundlegend neue Perspektive der StadtgeschichteEin findiger Geschäftsmann eröffnete 1878 in München eine Milchkuranstalt, in der die Kund:innen Milch direkt neben der Erzeugerkuh konsumieren konnten.
This book provides an overview of the history, basic concepts, and provision models of infrastructure, significant theories on infrastructure economics, practices at home and abroad that reflect the economic development effects of infrastructure, and four infrastructure economic growth models.
This book provides an invaluable overview of neoliberalising trends in urban policies and governance by presenting novel perspectives on municipal entrepreneurship support policies.
This book explores the concept of livable cities, where people enjoy living and being, and examines indicators of citizens' well-being in relation to the urban environment.
First Published in 1987, Rent Control discusses the economics of rent control, citing numerous international examples of the detrimental effects of rigid rent control.
First Published in 1987, Rent Control discusses the economics of rent control, citing numerous international examples of the detrimental effects of rigid rent control.
This book highlights the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of resilience and adaptation of buildings and cities to climate change, as presented by international researchers at the VI International Conference on Recovery, Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Buildings (CIRMARE 2023), held in Covilha, Portugal, on December 5-7, 2023.
This book highlights the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of resilience and adaptation of buildings and cities to climate change, as presented by international researchers at the VI International Conference on Recovery, Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Buildings (CIRMARE 2023), held in Covilha, Portugal, on December 5-7, 2023.
This book deals with regional sustainability, which is one of the biggest issues in Japan today, and presents suggested methods and cases to show how regional management should be carried out.
The go-to guide for sustainable community development, from the neighborhood to the regional levelFully revised and updated, Toward Sustainable Communities is the definitive guide to the why, the what, and most importantly, the how of creating resilient, healthy, equitable, and prosperous places.
The go-to guide for sustainable community development, from the neighborhood to the regional levelFully revised and updated, Toward Sustainable Communities is the definitive guide to the why, the what, and most importantly, the how of creating resilient, healthy, equitable, and prosperous places.
Providing high-level climate risk assessments for cities in Armenia, Georgia, and Uzbekistan, this report is designed to mainstream mitigation and adaptation into urban planning to help ensure climate resilient growth.
The microenterprise strategy helping people start small businesses has generated attention among policymakers and the media as a way to create jobs and help lift people out of poverty.
This book deals with regional sustainability, which is one of the biggest issues in Japan today, and presents suggested methods and cases to show how regional management should be carried out.
Protracted economic crises, accelerating inequalities, and increased resource scarcity present significant challenges for the majority of Africa's urban population.
Protracted economic crises, accelerating inequalities, and increased resource scarcity present significant challenges for the majority of Africa's urban population.
Today, the new Indonesian capital city, Nusantara, planning is being anticipated as "e;representing national identity,"e; "e;a model city,"e; or "e;a gift to the world,"e; and many other extraordinary labels.
This book is novel in that it reveals significant issues of economics, management and business fields currently observed in network industries such as public utilities and transportation, and provides empirical evidence of their mechanisms and policy implications from various perspectives.
This book is a compilation of nineteen articles, on various urban issues that provide considerable challenges not only for the national government, but also for the city managers in contemporary India.
This publication about the urban agenda in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) is timely as the world economy embraces the region with accelerated growth.
Das vorliegende Handbuch bietet einen umfassenden systematischen Überblick über das Themenfeld Lokale Ökonomie in Bezug auf Konzepte, Quartierskontexte und Interventionen.
This book addresses the relevance of the case study research methodology for enhancing urban planning research and education in Africa and the global South.
En sus páginas y en la amplia base de datos que componen el libro, el lector encontrará que nuestra investigación conjugó las grandes posibilidades que ofrece la digitalización de documentos de gran envergadura tales como la Guía general descriptiva de la República Mexicana, historia, geografía, estadísticas, etc.
This book features a collection of novel and original contributions to the study of urban sustainability from a human health perspective in the light of the current corona pandemic and the challenge of cities to offer inclusive, appealing, and healthy infrastructures.
The voucher debate has been both intense and ideologically polarizing, in good part because so little is known about how voucher programs operate in practice.
