Regional / urban economics

This book investigates resource-constrained environments in the tropics and subtropics where people's lives and businesses are affected, and adaptations occur periodically.

This book highlights the use of information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructures in order to develop smart cities and produce smart economies in Africa.

This book is a pioneering work to position the creative city concept within Malaysian urban development discourse.

The book assesses the development experience by reflecting on a number of aspects, su--ch as growth in relation to employment, regional imbalances and rural-urban distribution.

This book discusses the design and practice of environmental resources management for smart cities.

This book aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the so-called "e;endowment effect"e; in the housing market.

This unique volume takes a very different approach to the county-level governance and the land system reform in China.

This book follows the citizenship-based approach and interrogates the policies on urban village redevelopment from a perspective of social exclusion and inclusion.

This book explores for the first time the punk phenomenon in contemporary China.

This book explores the public acceptability of congestion pricing in the Chinese context.

Asian Alterity is an interdisciplinary theoretical analysis that vigorously contests the homogeneity of the mainstream Eurocentric values.

Modernization has effected a profound change in human civilizations and is a global trend since the 18th century.

This book presents articles from the International Conference on Sustainable Design, Engineering, Management, and Sciences (ICSDEMS 2020), held in Bali, Indonesia.

This report presents the outcomes of a survey project of the National Academy of Economic Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme.

This book seeks to shed light on the role of environment-friendly transport accessibility in determining property prices in Chinese cities.

This book explores how history shapes city development, assesses the role of government at national and sub-national levels through case studies of three secondary cities, Quanzhou, Yiwu and Nannin, and provides a link between city development and internationalization.

This book brings together the office and office working as an economic construct, as a business function, as a building type and as a mode of work.

The New Localism provides a roadmap for change that starts in the communities where most people live and work.

This handbook provides the most comprehensive examination of Asian cities-developed and developing, large and small-and their urban development.

This handbook provides the most comprehensive examination of Asian cities-developed and developing, large and small-and their urban development.

This book reports on a large research project on community regeneration, which integrated the spatial, social, economic and organizational factors with the dimensions of sustainability, resilience and participation.

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.

Cities in South Asia are homes to one of the highest concentrations of people anywhere in the world and the allocation of land and urban resources and the benefits that can be derived from them in this region have become increasingly contested.

The fateful year 2020 brought dramatic challenges to American cities.

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Logistics offers a state-of-the-art, comprehensive overview of the discipline of urban and city logistics.

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Logistics offers a state-of-the-art, comprehensive overview of the discipline of urban and city logistics.

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

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.

American cities are shifting collections of individual neghborhoods.

The aim of this publication is to look in depth at depopulation - a trend that is affecting an increasing number of cities worldwide.

This book offers ideas and practices on contemporary design concepts and illustrates them with plans and photographs of outstanding examples.

This book offers ideas and practices on contemporary design concepts and illustrates them with plans and photographs of outstanding examples.

In an age of pandemics the relationship between the health of the city and good sanitation has never been more important.

Gentrification Trends in the United States is the first book to quantify the changes that take place when a neighborhood's income level, educational attainment, or occupational makeup outpace the city as a whole - the much-debated yet poorly understood phenomenon of gentrification.

Gentrification Trends in the United States is the first book to quantify the changes that take place when a neighborhood's income level, educational attainment, or occupational makeup outpace the city as a whole - the much-debated yet poorly understood phenomenon of gentrification.

The microenterprise strategyhelping people start small businesseshas generated attention among policymakers and the media as a way to create jobs and help lift people out of poverty.

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.

This book focuses on the level of industrial synergy development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China.

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This book presents selected articles from the 15th International Asian Urbanization Conference, held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on November 27-30, 2019.

This book presents a collection of proposed offshore and nearshore settlements in response to the emerging consequences of climate change.

Since the 1990s, city branding has become a key factor in urban development policies.

The role of advertising in everyday life and as a major employer in post-industrial economies is intimately bound up with processes of contemporary globalization.

This book discusses Bangladesh's economic and social development that may be called a "e;miracle"e; since the country has achieved remarkable development progress under several unfavorable situations: weak governance and political instabilities, inequality, risks entailed in rapid urbanization, and exposure to severe disaster risks.

This book highlights various dimensions of human habitats in 21st Century India.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of various aspects of the development of smart cities from a secure, trusted, and reliable data transmission perspective.

This comprehensive volume contributes to the existing and emerging body of literature on contemporary urbanization and the interactions between cities and the environment.

By empirically assessing the competitiveness of 505 cities around the world from regional, national and other perspectives, this book not only ranks these cities but also presents a treasure trove of information with regard to each city's relative strengths and weaknesses.