Urban Economics

An innovative advanced-undergraduate and graduate-level textbook in urban economicsWith more than half of todays global GDP being produced by appro...

As China rises to become the world's largest economy, half a billion rural villagers are expected to become urban residents in the coming decades. ...

The last two decades have been an exciting and richly productive period for debate and academic research on the city. The SAGE Handbook of New Urba...

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...

In a time of diminished resources, the public sector is facing new challenges ranging from meeting the needs of aging baby boomers and the massive...

In recognition of the 15th anniversary of the ULI J. C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development, this book profiles the 15 remarkable pr...

Once a blue-collar outpost, Seattle, home to Microsoft, Amazon, and hundreds of startups, transformed into one of the worlds major innovation hubs ...

In this brilliant, very original survey of the politics and meanings of urban landscapes, leading sociologist Göran Therborn offers a tour of the w...

City of Broken Dreams brings the global debate about the urban university to bear on the realities of South African rust-belt cities through a deta...

Architectures of survival is an original and innovative work of history that investigates the relationship between air war and urbanism in modern B...

The future of smart cities has arrived, courtesy of citizens and their phones. To prove it, Daniel T. OBrien explains the transformative insights g...

Every state in the nation has geographic divisionsupstate/downstate, urban/rural, major city/rest of the statethat loom large as barriers to common...

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