Regional / urban economics

This book offers an overview of Russian and international experience in developing the concept of future cities and its practical implementation.

The book is the first to explore the history and political significance of the Japanese public housing program.

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.

This book presents and critically evaluates the results of a European territorial cooperation project addressing the planning challenge of brownfield transformation in fragile territories.

San Carlos de Bariloche es una ciudad que supone simultaneidades de prácticas, encuentros, intereses contrapuestos y desigualdades.

Esta obra recorre y analiza la urbanización de Bariloche –con sus particularidades como destino turístico–, entre las políticas urbanas desplegadas por el Estado y los procesos de producción del hábitat de diferentes actores sociales.

This book constitutes a novel contribution, combining recent theoretical developments and empirical contributions, as well as the recent and latest trends and challenges on the issue of Forgotten Spaces.

This book collects the latest academic achievements, research progress and policy propositions on the study of China's special economic zones, with the aim to reflect the history, new development and new challenges of the construction of Chinese special economic zones.

This book collects the latest academic achievements, research progress and policy propositions on the study of China's special economic zones, with the aim to reflect the history, new development and new challenges of the construction of Chinese special economic zones.

This book showcases the discussion about megaprojects carried out at the MeRIT (Megaproject Research Interdisciplinary Team) workshop 2022: the crisis, discontinuity, rising prices, and supply chains disruption force radical reflection for those involved in megaprojects.

The proposed book presents the cutting-edge research on the urban development of three cities: Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

The proposed book presents the cutting-edge research on the urban development of three cities: Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

This report explores what a global transition to net zero could mean for Asia and the Pacific under a range of climate policy scenarios and provides recommendations.

This book showcases the discussion about megaprojects carried out at the MeRIT (Megaproject Research Interdisciplinary Team) workshop 2022: the crisis, discontinuity, rising prices, and supply chains disruption force radical reflection for those involved in megaprojects.

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

Unequal distribution of income is one of the most important socio-economic issues.

We live in a self-proclaimed Urban Age, where we celebrate the city as the source of economic prosperity, a nurturer of social and cultural diversity, and a place primed for democracy.

Drawing on economics, sociology, geography, and psychology, Galster delivers a clear-sighted explanation of what neighborhoods are, how they come to be-and what they should be.

This edited collection explores how architects, planners, and landscape architects can engage with former mining sites and communities.

This book explores how energy efficiency is a major component in the development of sustainable real estate.

In this volume, we examine the challenges and opportunities created by global migration at the start of the 21st century.

This book evaluates why cities choose to bid for the Olympics, why Olympic bids fail, and whether cities can benefit from failed bids.

With the rise of wealth inequalities, our cities are changing dramatically.

This book comprises the select proceedings of the 3rd Construction Management Workshop  (CMW 24), New Frontiers of Construction Management, held in Ravenna, Italy on November 7-8, 2024.

Poverty as Subsistence explores the "e;propertizing"e; land reform policy that the World Bank advocated throughout the transitioning countries of Eurasia, expecting poverty reduction to result from distributing property titles over agricultural land to local (rural) populations.

This book examines urbanization and migration processes in South Asia.

This book discusses urban planning and regional development practices in the twentieth century, and ways in which they are currently being transformed.

Economic archaeology and ancient economic history have boomed the past decades.

Recent decades have seen many economic history books and articles published about working men and women, small and big entrepreneurs, guilds and state manufactures, farmers and journeymen, and children and citizens.

Space is a crucial variable in any economic activity.

This book discusses the identification of, solutions to, and management of threats to high population coastal cities and their seaports from global warming, climate change and endemic hazards.

Although there have been considerable technological advances over the past decade, particularly in terms of mobile applications, much remains unknown about their effect on societal progress.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the role of gateway cities in contemporary circuits of global production.

Space is a crucial variable in any economic activity.

This book critically examines how the narrative of global economic competition was used to rationalize college preparatory curriculum for all high school students and promote charter schools in Detroit.

This book investigates cluster-life-cycle (CLC) analysis to inform the entrepreneurial discovery process (EDP), in order to support the effectiveness of the smart specialization strategy (S3).

The Super Bowl is the most watched sporting event in the United States.

This book is an interdisciplinary examination of China's new urban development model and the challenges Chinese cities face in the 21st century.

This book gathers 22 papers which were presented at the 6th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography in Dubrovnik, Croatia on 13-15 October 2016.

This book examines failed new city proposals in Australia to understand the hurdles - environmental, societal, and economic - that have curtailed such visions.

This book explores statistical models in regional specialization, presenting a brand new measure.

This book explores the parallels between the Renaissance during the 14th to 16th centuries and the upheavals in human and physical sciences in the 21st Century that herald an insurgent entrepreneurial renaissance.

This book defines the dilemmas related to the interface between legal regulations and planning practice in the spatial management system.

The overall objective of the book is to holistically assess the property tax systems in BRICS megacities.

Cities are experiencing unprecedented times.

This book presents an in-depth study to show that a sustainable future urban life is possible.

This book explores the historical roots of rapid economic growth in South Asia, with reference to politics, markets, resources, and the world economy.

This book presents an exploratory account of the origins and dynamics of cities.

In a series of essays, this book describes and analyzes the concept and theory of the recent smart city phenomenon from a global perspective, with a focus on its implementation around the world.

This book explores the growing spatial inequality in contemporary cities, and the opportunity of reframing the role of public open space as a tool of inclusion in a context of an increasing economic gap between the urban poor and rich.