Urban Regional category: 846 books

Cover of Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics
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Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004

The new Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics: Cities and Geography reviews, synthesizes and extends the key developments in urban and regional economics and their strong connection to other recent developments in modern economics. Of particular interest is the development of the new economic geography...
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The Regional and Urban Policy of the European Union

Cohesion, Results-Orientation and Smart Specialisation

by Philip McCann
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015

The regional and urban development policy of the European Union, or more precisely, EU Cohesion Policy, is undergoing change. This development is driven by the enormous transformations in European regions and by shifts in thinking and analysis. The issues raised by the changes to regional and urban development...
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Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects

Building Resilient Regions

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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012

The mission of the Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects series is to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effectiveness of select policy approaches, reforms, and experiments in addressing the key social and economic problems facing today's cities, suburbs, and metropolitan...
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Seminal Studies in Regional and Urban Economics

Contributions from an Impressive Mind

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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017

The book spans a scientific research program elegantly developed by Roberto Camagni, an eminent regional scientist, who has offered ground-breaking ideas in regional and urban economics throughout his academic career. In addition to bringing together a selection of Professor Camagni’s most influential...
Cover of Governing Urban Regions Through Collaboration
by Joël Thibert
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016

With the demise of the Old Regionalist project of achieving good regional governance through amalgamation, voluntary collaboration has become the modus operandi of a large number of North American metropolitan regions. Although many researchers have become interested in regional collaboration and...
Cover of The Politics of Urban and Regional Development and the American Exception
by Kevin R. Cox
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016

Although all advanced industrial societies have urban and regional development policies, such policy in the United States historically has taken on a very distinct form. Compared with the more top-down, centrally orchestrated approaches of Western European countries, US cities and, to a lesser degree,...
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Urban and Regional Planning in India

A Handbook for Professional Practice

by S K Kulshrestha
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012

The scope of professional practice in planning has now become very vast-in addition to traditional land-use planning at urban, regional and national levels, it includes development management; real-estate development; advice, arbitration and legal services; education and training; and research. In...
Cover of The Regional City
by Peter Calthorpe, William Fulton
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013

MAmericans today do not live in discrete cities and towns, but rather in an aggregation of cities and suburbs that forms one basic economic, multi-cultural, environmental and civic entity. These “regional cities” have the potential to significantly improve the quality of our lives--to provide...
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Regional Development in Rural Areas

Analytical Tools and Public Policies

by Frédéric Wallet, André Torre
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2016

This book intends to provide analytical and policy tools for investigating the question of the development of rural and peri-urban areas. The aim is to shed some light on this topic and in particular to contribute to a better understanding of the link between issues of regional or territorial development...
Cover of Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015

Developments in methodologies, agglomeration, and a range of applied issues have characterized recent advances in regional and urban studies. Volume 5 concentrates on these developments while treating traditional subjects such as housing, the costs and benefits of cities, and policy issues beyond...
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Coping with Regional Vulnerability

Preventing and Mitigating Damages from Environmental Disasters

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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015

Whether a natural event turns into a disaster depends on the severity of the hazard as well as the condition of the social sphere of its potential victims, i.e., vulnerability. We focus on regional vulnerability considering the fact that regional socioeconomic conditions determine the aspects of the...
Cover of Managing Urban Water Supply
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013

We, the editors, have long believed that a strong knowledge of relatively simple economic and engineering concepts is valuable in solving water management problems. The lack of such knowledge has been apparent to us in some of the journal articles, research proposals and books we have reviewed. The...
Cover of The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies

The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies

Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles

by Michael Storper, Thomas Kemeny, Naji Makarem
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015

Today, the Bay Area is home to the most successful knowledge economy in America, while Los Angeles has fallen progressively further behind its neighbor to the north and a number of other American metropolises. Yet, in 1970, experts would have predicted that L.A. would outpace San Francisco in population,...
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Regional Economic Development

Analysis and Planning Strategy

by Robert J. Stimson, Roger R. Stough, Brian H. Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013

Regional economic development has attracted the interest of economists, geographers, planners and regional scientists for a long time. And, of course, it is a field that has developed a large practitioner cohort in government and business agencies from the national down to the state and local levels....
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