Urban Regional category: 846 books
by Harvey S. Perloff, Lowdon Wingo Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Classic economic considerations applied to the crucial urban problems of poverty, racial segregation, urban renewal, transportation, and education. Originally published in 1968
A Century of Change
Beijing's Urban Structure in the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of Beijing’s urban structure in the 20th century, analyzing essential social and economic changes in the housing sector. Focusing on the urban changes that took place under the market economy after 1978 and beyond, the book addresses the...
Quality of Life in Cities
Equity, Sustainable Development and Happiness from a Policy Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
In the last few decades, urban quality of life has received increasing interest from policy makers who aim to make cities better places to live. In addition to the aim of improving quality of life, sustainable and equitable development is also often included in the policy agendas of decision makers.
This...
Economic Development Through Regional Trade
A Role for the New East African Community?
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Post-colonial Africa is littered with regional trade agreements that amounted to little more than a photo opportunity for the leaders that signed them. This book explores conventional explanations for past failures and posits a new theory rooted in the symbiotic relationship between authoritarian politics and crony-capitalism.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
The role of integration as a catalyst for economic growth, development and insulation from global shocks has made the concept of regional integration even more attractive to states. This books contains compelling arguments and empirical observations that detail some of the key opportunities governments in Africa are pursuing.
Neoliberal Urban Policy and the Transformation of the City
Reshaping Dublin
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
This book reviews the character and impacts of 'actually-existing' neoliberalism in Ireland. It examines the property-development boom and its legacy, the impacts of neoliberal urban policy in reshaping the city, public resistance to the new urban policy and highlights salient points to be drawn from the Irish experience of neoliberalism.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
This book explores mobilities as a key to understanding the practices that both frame and generate contemporary everyday life in the urban context. At the same time, it investigates the challenges arising from the interpretation of mobility as a socio-spatial phenomenon both in the social sciences...
Urban Regeneration Management
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
This book was born out of the need to ‘capture’ the experience and understanding of the regeneration management process that is neither UK centric nor centred exclusively on urban areas. Written by experts working in the USA, Holland, Greece, Jamaica, Turkey, Spain, Trinidad and the Czech Republic,...
Land Delivery Systems in West African Cities
The Example of Bamako, Mali
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Urban and peri-urban land markets in rapidly expanding West African cities operate within and across different coexisting tenure regimes and involve complex procedures to obtain or make land available for housing. Because a structured framework lacks for the analysis of such systems, this book proposes...
Towards a Dynamic Regional Innovation System
Investigation into the Electronics Industry in the Pearl River Delta, China
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Embedding the theoretical discussion on the framework of evolutionary regional innovation systems (RIS), this book reveals the informal nature of the emerging RIS in China, within which interactive learning is organized on the basis of social networks. Furthermore, in a comparative study in the Pearl...
by Piyush Tiwari, Jyoti Rao, Jennifer Day
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
This book is a concise treatise of the alternative paradigms used in BRICS countries to tackle urban housing shortages. There are a number of alternative methods for meeting these shortages which BRICS countries have adopted. These alternatives may agree in terms of desired outcome, but when it comes...
Convergence Clubs and Spatial Externalities
Models and Applications of Regional Convergence in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Do dynamic externalities, in the form of technology creation, adoption and spatial agglomeration shape the pattern of regional growth in Europe? This study provides an alternative view on regional convergence. A model is developed which attributes club-convergence to existing differences with respect...
by Jens Kai Perret
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
The Russian Federation has a history of more than twenty years of transformation to a market economy, but as well to a knowledge society, to look back on. This study takes a look at the knowledge generation, knowledge transmission and knowledge use inside the Federation since the early 1990s. Furthermore,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
The aging and migration megatrends and their impact on spatial – regional and local – labor market performance is the core theme of this book, and thus together define its scope and focus. The contributions provide an overview of key aging and migration issues in various countries together...