Urban Economics

Accounts of corruption in Africa and the Global South are generally overly simplistic and macro-oriented, and commonly disconnect everyday (petty) ...

These four volumes present a series of thematic explorations of key developments and debates on the topic of cities and city life in a post-modern ...

A substantive account of the evolution of the World Trade Organisations (WTO) Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiations and the role of developing...

Vulnerable Communities examines the struggles of smaller cities in the United States, those with populations between 20,000 and 200,000. Like many ...

Too many U.S. cities and towns have been focused on a model of economic development that relies on recruiting one big company (such as Amazon), a s...

What does gentrification look like? Can we even agree that it is a process that replaces one community with another? It is a question of class? Or ...

The continuing rapid growth and development of Chinas cities brings many complex challenges. Tasked with supporting strong economic development tha...

Things Still Fall Apart shows that Africa is a neglected and exploited continent. Since it was invaded c.1500 by Europeans, it has accumulated only...

A searing investigation of the factors that devastated Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria, from acclaimed investigative reporter Michael De...

Housing matters a great deal. The present housing market has worked well for many of us (who have enjoyed the steeply rising values of our homes) ...

In recent times, we have all questioned whether we feel truly nurtured by where we live. With 68 per cent of the worlds population predicted to liv...

This book traces the sociospatial transformation of Ahmedabad's worker neighbourhoods over the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first centu...

London has enjoyed an extraordinary period of growth in the past generation, symbolised by the towers of Canary Wharf built on the skeleton of the ...

Understanding the modern city and the powerful forces within it is the lifes work of Harvard urban economist Edward Glaeser, who at forty is hailed...

Since the 1990s, a burgeoning literature has emerged on the politics and governance of urban climate. It is now evident that urban responses to cli...

Higher education expert William F. Massy's decades as a professor, senior university officer, and consultant have left him with a passionate belief...