Urban Regional category: 846 books
Housing Finance Systems
Market Failures and Government Failures
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
The term 'housing crisis' has recently been associated with rising foreclosure rates and tottering financial institutions, particularly in the US and Europe. However, in many emerging countries, the housing crisis is about urban poverty, unplanned settlements, overcrowded slums and homelessness.
Planning, Connecting, and Financing Cities — Now
Priorities for City Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
This report provides Mayors and other policymakers with a policy framework and diagnostic tools to anticipate and implement strategies that can avoid their cities from locking into irreversible physical and social structures. At the core of the policy framework are the three main dimensions of urban...
The Economics of International Immigration
Environment, Unemployment, the Wage Gap, and Economic Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
This is the first book that takes a theoretical approach to the effects of international immigration by considering the current economic topics confronted by more highly developed countries such as Japan. Developed here is the classic trade model by Heckscher–Ohlin–Samuelson, McDougall’s basic...
City Making and Global Labor Regimes
Chinese Immigrants and Italy's Fast Fashion Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This book investigates the success story of the fast fashion industry—mainly owned by Chinese migrants—in Prato, Italy. It outlines how Prato has become the center of a value chain stretching from suppliers in China and Turkey all the way to buyers in Europe. Despite this, a policy attacking Chinese...
Room for Development
Housing Markets in Latin America and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Latin American and Caribbean countries are the most urban in the developing world and have very high home ownership rates. However, many of the region's inhabitants are still poorly housed. This book examines three key contributing issues: high housing prices relative to family income, lack of access to mortgage credit, and high land prices.
The Creative Community Builder's Handbook
How to Transform Communities Using Local Assets, Arts, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2006
Put the power of arts and culture to work in your community Part 1 of this unique guide distills research and emerging ideas behind culturally driven community development and explains key underlying principles. You'll understand the arts impact on community well-being and have the rationale for engaging...
Memphis and the Paradox of Place
Globalization in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Celebrated as the home of the blues and the birthplace of rock and roll, Memphis, Tennessee, is where Elvis Presley, B. B. King, Johnny Cash, and other musical legends got their starts. It is also a place of conflict and tragedy--the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 assassination--and a city...
India's Reluctant Urbanization
Thinking Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Through a close examination of India's policies, economic system, social systems and politics, this study explores the numerous perspectives and debates on India's urbanization. The authors link contemporary urban issues with emerging challenges associated with policies and city management.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
While the population continues to grow and expand, many people are now making their homes in cities around the globe. With this increase in city living, it is becoming vital to create intelligent urban environments that efficiently support this growth, and that simultaneous provide friendly, progressive...
City of Gold
An Apology for Global Capitalism in a Time of Discontent
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
David A. Westbrook argues that we live in "the city of gold"--a global, cosmopolitan polity where politics are done through markets, and where global capital markets, not states, have become the dominant force in our social life.
Research Design and Proposal Writing in Spatial Science
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
The complex interactions between human and physical systems confronting social scientists and policymakers pose unique conceptual, methodological, and practical complications when ‘doing research’. Graduate students in a broad range of related fields need to learn how to tackle the discipline-specific...
Transport Matters
Integrated Approaches to Planning City-Regions
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Addressing the principles of sustainability, spatial planning, integration, governance and accessibility of transport, this book focuses on the problem of providing efficient and low energy transport systems which serve the needs of everybody.
It explores many of the new arguments, ideas and...
Livelihood Security in Northwestern Himalaya
Case Studies from Changing Socio-economic Environments in Himachal Pradesh, India
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
This book identifies and analyzes livelihood impacts of recent environmental and socio-economic changes in urban and rural settings of the mountainous state of Himachal Pradesh, north western Himalaya, India. The findings of the research deal with the broader objectives of the changing patterns of...
Asian and Pacific Cities
Development Patterns
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
The cities of Asia and the Pacific are at the epicentre of development in what is arguably, the most populous, culturally distinctive, and economically powerful region in the world. 16 major cities such as Tokyo, Shanghai, Manila, Jakarta, Bangkok, Singapore, Auckland, Kuala Lumpur and Santiago, located...