Urban Regional category: 846 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
This book integrates diversified methodologies of area studies, regional economic development, regional science, and related fields to draw up a strategy for forming the “regional food industrial cluster” in Northeast Asia. This is done by assigning “innovation” to a core concept, with the...
Complexity, Cognition, Urban Planning and Design
Post-Proceedings of the 2nd Delft International Conference
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
This book, which resulted from an intensive discourse between experts from several disciplines – complexity theorists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, urban planners and urban designers, as well as a zoologist and a physiologist – addresses various issues regarding cities. It is a first step...
Geographical Labor Market Imbalances
Recent Explanations and Cures
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
This book focuses on the questions of how territorial differences in productivity levels and unemployment rates arise in the first place and why territorial differences in labor market performance persist over time. Unemployment divergence and unemployment club convergence have been touched on in...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Innovation, which in essence is the generation of knowledge and its subsequent application in the marketplace in the form of novel products and processes, has become the key concept in inquiries concerning the contemporary knowledge based economy. Geography plays a decisive role in the underlying...
East Asia and Pacific Cities
Expanding Opportunities for the Urban Poor
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Urbanization in East Asia and the Pacific has created enormous opportunity for many. Yet the rapid growth of cities can also create challenges as national and local governments try to keep up with the needs of their growing populations. Among these challenges is a lack of affordable housing, resulting...
Reconstructing Urban Economics
Towards a Political Economy of the Built Environment
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Neoclassical economics, the intellectual bedrock of modern capitalism, faces growing criticisms, as many of its key assumptions and policy prescriptions are systematically challenged. Yet, there remains one field of economics where these limitations continue virtually unchallenged: the study of cities...
Property Rights, Land Values and Urban Development
Betterment and Compensation in China
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Land value capture has long been a hotly debated topic, and it has influenced a wide variety of land ownership regimes. Property Rights, Land Values and Urban Development examines the role and impact of government intervention on land markets in China. It reveals that the state has taken selective advantage...
Economics of Urban Externalities
Analysis of Squatter Settlements in Kathmandu and Quito
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
This book provides a fresh look at measuring negative externalities in the urbanization process. Meeting the challenges that come hand-in-hand with the contemporary age of rapid urbanization demands more extensive empirical knowledge. While most urbanization research focuses on positive externalities,...
Regional Upgrading in Southern Europe
Spatial Disparities and Human Capital
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
The book is aimed at a wide audience, including academics, economic geography, spatial planning and regional policy researchers, institutional leaders and managers, national and institutional policy makers, practitioners, administrators, master's and senior bachelor's students on related courses,...
Transforming Cities with Transit
Transit and Land-Use Integration for Sustainable Urban Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
'Transforming Cities with Transit' explores the complex process of transit and land-use integration in rapidly growing cities in developing countries. As one of the most promising strategies for advancing environmental sustainability, economic competitiveness, and socially inclusive development in fast-growing...
by Chris Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Cash Flow, Social Good, No Guilt, No B.S. Just a guide that works!Is it possible to:•Make $100,000 per month on a $30,000 investment?•Build business and community at the same time?•Legally get into the sweepstakes cafe industry?Of course. Not just another business book, The Urban...
Entwicklung und Regionalökonomie in der Wirtschaftsförderung
Grundlagen für die Praxis
Language: German
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Inhalt des Lehrbuchs sind theoretische Grundlagen für eine strategische Wirtschaftsförderung. Zunächst werden relevante Entwicklungstheorien und regionalökonomische Ansätze vorgestellt und diskutiert. Dabei erfolgen Rückgriffe auf verschiedene Bausteine aus Entwicklungs- und Außenwirtschaftstheorie,...
Reform of the International Monetary System
An Asian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
By providing a comprehensive overview of policy proposals for the international monetary system from an Asian perspective, this book aims to identify what innovations are needed to reform the international monetary and financial system to promote financial stability and sustainable economic growth...
Agogic Maps
From Musical Phrasing to Enhancement of Urban Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This book explores the value of the musical concept of “agogics” – the modification of regular rhythm to enhance expressive potential – in understanding urban spatial configurations within the current technological context and in developing urban maps that exploit sonic signals to create an...