Urban Economics

With mega townships as the tool, this book analyses the complexity, scale and the challenges associated with the development paradigm in India from...

Cities have been missing from analyses of the global economic crisis and debates about how to generate a sustainable recovery. Cities and crisis pr...

While sharing some characteristics with other middle-income countries, South Africa is a country with a unique economic history and distinctive eco...

The economy has been brutal to American workers for several decades. The chance to give one's children a better life than one's own-the promise at ...

Charting a renewed course for Africa, this work looks at the immediate challenges resulting from the global changes and the priority medium-term po...

How is it possible for a town to exist where the median household income is about $73,000, but the median home price is about $4,000,000? Boring in...

How is it possible for a town to exist where the median household income is about $73,000, but the median home price is about $4,000,000? Boring in...

Neoclassical economics, the intellectual bedrock of modern capitalism, faces growing criticisms, as many of its key assumptions and policy prescrip...

In the last several years, much has been written about growing economic challenges, increasing income inequality, and political polarization in the...

Many cities across the world continue to grapple with long-standing urban challenges even as new ones emerge. With each crisis, cities address thes...

A leading urban economist's hopeful study of how shifts to remote work can change all of our lives for the better.   As COVID-19 descended upon the...

By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas. This volume explores the implications of this ...

The livable city, the creative city, and more recently the pop-up city have become pervasive monikers that identify a new type of urbanism that has...

This Element in Global Urban History seeks to promote understanding of the urban history of Africa. It does so by undertaking four main tasks. Firs...

This Element in Global Urban History seeks to promote understanding of the urban history of Africa. It does so by undertaking four main tasks. Firs...

This book highlights recent findings in civil and environmental engineering and urban planning, and provides an overview of the state of the art in...

Captured from Great Depression-era Seattle newspapers, this narrative history of the city's business, labour, and political life traces a turbulent...

This book illuminates how the profound challenges faced by contemporary societies over the past few decades, encompassing climate change and other ...

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Logistics offers a state-of-the-art, comprehensive overview of the discipline of urban and city logistics. The COVI...