Urban Regional category: 846 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
The volume highlights ongoing changes in the political economy of small cities in relation to the field of culture and leisure. Culture and leisure are focal points both to local entrepreneurship and to planning by city governments, which means that these developments are subject to market dynamics...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
This book is unique in that it brings forth the nature and characteristics of 21st century Asian urbanization. It provides a basic framework, particularly as it relates to the patterns, characteristics and problems associated with urbanization. Urban structural models are discussed in relation to...
by Zheng Wang
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
This book summarizes the research findings in regarding a region as a rational and abstract concept and explores the principles of regional science. Focusing on location theory, spatial dynamics and regional evolution theory, it stresses that the region as a scientific concept is an essential abstract...
by Alexander Wijgers
Language: German
Release Date: April 11, 2008
Language: German
Release Date: April 11, 2008
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich VWL - Fallstudien, Länderstudien, Note: 1,7, Universität Hamburg (Department Wirtschaftswissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Economic growth and development in China, 19 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: The economic growth of...
East Asia's Changing Urban Landscape
Measuring a Decade of Spatial Growth
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
Urbanization is transforming the developing world. However, understanding the pace, scale, and form of urbanization has been limited by a lack of consistent data. East Asias Changing Urban Landscape aims to address this problem by using satellite imagery and other data to measure urban expansion across...
Regional Policy, Economic Growth and Convergence
Lessons from the Spanish Case
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
Many European, Latin American and Asian countries have experience with regional policies aiming to reduce regional disparities in GDP per capita and/or to develop problem regions helping to recover from its GDP decrease. Spain represents, without any doubt, a very rich and interesting case-study regarding...
Asian Economic Integration Report 2018
Toward Optimal Provision of Regional Public Goods in Asia and the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
This publication is the annual report of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Asia's progress in regional cooperation and integration. It covers ADB's 48 regional members and analyzes regional and global economic linkages. This year's special chapter, "Toward Optimal Provision of Regional Public...
Regional Advantage and Innovation
Achieving Australia's National Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Regional areas are key building blocks of society in many countries. This compilation uses Australian case study examples to demonstrate how regional areas are uniquely well-placed to contribute to national goals in innovation, infrastructure provision, water and food security, environmental sustainability,...
Regional Science Matters
Studies Dedicated to Walter Isard
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This volume is a collection of fresh and novel contributions to regional science. They commemorate the scientific inheritance of the founding father of regional science, the late Walter Isard. All papers are written by well-known scholars in the field and serve to highlight the great importance...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Metropolitan commercial real estate markets are highly influenced by global forces, the regional economy, and institutional behaviour. While descriptions of regional commercial real estate markets are well known and widespread in academic literature, this monograph goes beyond that in explaining...
Cooperation, Clusters, and Knowledge Transfer
Universities and Firms Towards Regional Competitiveness
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Cooperation and clusters have become the guiding paradigms for explaining and promoting regional competitiveness, but the cooperation process between firms and universities and the transfer of knowledge in guiding and nurturing regional competitiveness has received relatively little attention. This...
Comparative Metropolitan Policy
Governing Beyond Local Boundaries in the Imagined Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
How are metropolitan regions governed? What makes some regions more effective than others in managing policies that cross local jurisdictional boundaries? Political coordination among municipal governments is necessary to attract investment, rapid and efficient public transit systems, and to sustain...
Dynamics and Resilience of Informal Areas
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
This volume provides visionary approaches within the multi-disciplines engaged with informal settlements covering three main themes; ‘Innovative Policies and Strategies to Informal Urbanism’; ‘Production, Operation and the Life-World of Urban Space’ and finally ‘The Dynamics of Informal...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
This book presents a multiregional input-output model for the metropolitan area of Southern California, which helps to estimate the economic impact of simulated terrorist attacks on seaports, malls etc. as well as of natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis. The authors also analyze the...