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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
More than any other major U.S. city, Atlanta regularly reinvents itself. From the Civil War’s devastation to the 1996 Olympic boom to the current housing crisis, the city’s history is a cycle of rise and fall, ruin and resurgence.
In Planning Atlanta, two dozen planning practitioners and...
Mediterranean Labor Markets in the First Age of Globalization
An Economic History of Real Wages and Market Integration
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Scholars have studied the nineteenth century's unprecedented labor flows in global and specific country contexts, but have lacked a comprehensive analysis of the world's old economic core, the Mediterranean. This work provides answers to important questions, such as: If the Mediterranean labor market...
The Ghost Cities of Australia
A survey of New City Proposals and Their Lessons for Australia’s 21st Century Development
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
This book examines failed new city proposals in Australia to understand the hurdles – environmental, societal, and economic – that have curtailed such visions. The lessons from these relative failures are important because, if projections for Australia’s 21st century population growth are borne...
Logistics and Transportation
Design and planning
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Logistics is a $700 billion industry in the USA and is the second largest employer of college graduates. Logistics costs account for nearly 30% of the sales dollar, and logistics activities are essential to satisfying the ever- changing customer demand in terms of variety and availability. Today the...
Navigating Community Development
Harnessing Comparative Advantages to Create Strategic Partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
This book describes the evolution of the community development sector over the past 50 years, and it presents a framework and road map for how community development organizations can advance their mission through strategic partnerships that utilize their core competencies. The authors describe the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Taking Stock of Air Liberalization is about Technology, Economy, and Policy (TEP) in the airline industry. Ten years ago, the practical collaboration was begun of bringing together people who belonged to the complementary streams of economic analysis and policy analysis presented int his book. During...
by P. Koslowski
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
John Maynard Keynes wrote to his grandchildren more than fifty years ago about their economic possibilities, and thus about our own: "I see us free, there fore, to return to some of the most sure and certain principles of religion and traditional virtue - that avarice is a vice, that the exaction...
Poverty in Haiti
Essays on Underdevelopment and Post Disaster Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Following the 2010 earthquake catastrophe, this book examines the economic and political challenges facing Haiti. It presents an overview of the country's economic history, and seeks new prospects for economic growth and development in the future.
The Rebirth of the Greek Labor Market
Building Toward 2020 After the Global Financial Meltdown
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
The Rebirth of the Greek Labor Market provides evidence of the macroeconomic evolution of the Greek economy, as well as current conditions in the labor market, to suggest potential areas of growth following the crisis. The contributors of this collection focus on three main issues that make the overall...
New Cohesion Policy of the European Union in Poland
How It Will Influence the Investment Attractiveness of Regions in 2014-2020
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
The main objective of the book is to identify and evaluate the major changes in the Cohesion Policy of the European Union and their effects on Polish regions for the period of 2014 - 2020. The reader will learn how these changes result from the successful agreement on the Multiannual Financial Framework...
Emerging Issues in Contemporary African Economies
Structure, Policy, and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Onyeiwu focuses on how events of the twenty-first century are shaping key sectors of African economies and societies. He suggests that, compared to East Asia and Latin America, Africa still has a long way to go, despite recent improvements in performance.
Dull Disasters?
How planning ahead will make a difference
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. In recent years, typhoons have struck the Philippines and Vanuatu; earthquakes have rocked...
Municipal Finances
A Handbook for Local Governments
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
The Municipal Finance Handbook aims to help local government practitioners, particularly staff of medium and large cities, improve strategic management of municipal finances. The demands for pragmatic knowledge are fueled in part by decentralization and fiscal pressures, as transfer of responsibilities...
Housing Policy at a Crossroads
The Why, How, and Who of Assistance Programs
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
Since Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, American housing policy has focused on building homes for the poor. But seventy-five years of federal housing projects have not significantly ameliorated crime, decreased unemployment, or improved health; recent reforms have failed to revitalize low-income neighborhoods...