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Cities Network Along the Silk Road
The Global Urban Competitiveness Report 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2017
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.
This unique resource...
Advances in Local Public Economics
Theoretical and Empirical Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2019
This book introduces recent developments in both theoretical and empirical analyses of local public economics. Theories of those economics as well as empirical analyses have been developed dramatically in various directions in recent years.
One direction has been to reflect real economic circumstances,...
The Business Improvement District Movement
Contributions to Public Administration & Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
This comprehensive book covers the theory and practice of Business Improvement Districts or BIDs – partnerships between local communities and governments established to revitalize neighborhoods and catalyze economic development in a region. In this book, author Seth Grossman demonstrates the ways...
Standorttheorien
Regional- und Stadtökonomik in Theorie und Praxis
Language: German
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Das Buch stellt sowohl traditionelle als auch neuere und neueste Theorien zur Standortwahl vor. Die traditionellen Standorttheorien umfassen die klassische Standortlehre, die Agglomerationsökonomik sowie die Untersuchung der Effekte unterschiedlicher Branchenstrukturen auf eine Stadt oder Region....
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This report illustrates the current state of inclusive business (IB) models in the Asia–Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies, particularly the market potentials, constraints, and necessary policy instruments for an enabling environment for IB. A profile of IB initiatives, the overview of...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The Greater Mekong Subregion Human Resource Development Strategic Framework and Action Plan (2013–2017) reflects changing circumstances, including the development of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) economic corridors as an important GMS priority. The goal of the human resource development strategy...
Revolution Detroit
Strategies for Urban Reinvention
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
After decades of suburban sprawl, job loss, and lack of regional government, Detroit has become a symbol of post-industrial distress and also one of the most complex urban environments in the world. In Revolution Detroit: Strategies for Urban Reinvention, John Gallagher argues that Detroit's experience...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Making a detailed contribution to geographies of air transport and aeromobility, this book examines the practices and processes that produce particular patterns of air transport provision both regionally and globally. In so doing, it updates the seminal contributions of Eva Taylor (1945), Kenneth...
Native Florida Plants
Low Maintenance Landscaping and Gardening
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Many counties in Florida now require that new commercial landscapes contain a percentage of native plants. Native landscapes are easier to maintain, use less water and thrive without chemical pesticides and fertilizers. Native Florida Plants describes every type of regional flora—-from seaside foliage...
Panels for Transportation Planning
Methods and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Panels for Transportation Planning argues that panels - repeated measurements on the same sets of households or individuals over time - can more effectively capture dynamic changes in travel behavior, and the factors which underlie these changes, than can conventional cross-sectional surveys. Because...
Evaluation in Planning
Evolution and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Evaluation is a critical stage in urban and regional planning and development, with the consideration of alternative proposals essential for informed debate and decision. Evaluation in planning has become even more important with the new paradigm attempting to integrate economic efficiency with equity,...
by David Hollister, Ray Tadgerson, David Closs
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
The dynamic, collaborative management model that saved a U.S. manufacturing city
When car-making giant General Motors decided to close its plant in Lansing, Michigan, in 1996, one person—the city’s newly elected mayor—stood up and said “no.” Initially, it was the cry of a man in the...
Resilience and Opportunity
Lessons from the U.S. Gulf Coast after Katrina and Rita
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005. Commentary and analysis typically focused on what went wrong in the post-disaster emergency response. This forward-looking book, however, presents a more cautiously optimistic view about the region's ability to bounce back after multiple...
Routledge Revivals: Localities (1989)
The Changing Face of Urban Britain
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
First published in 1989, this book examines seven different localities, ranging from the outer suburbs of large northern cities to small freestanding town, which were prospering in the 1980s or struggling against the negative employment effects of restructuring. Within the theoretical frame of ‘industrial...