Urban Economics

Motivated by the rapid increase in housing demand and the population of older adults worldwide, this book provides an interdisciplinary and multi-l...

The social impact of the Internet and new digital technologies is irrefutable, especially for adolescents. It is simply no longer possible to under...

In the light of digital transformation and the role of information and communication technologies for economic development, this volume discusses t...

The volume contains an editorial and nine contributions to the proceedings of the 14th international conference of the Faculty of Economics and Bus...

This edited volume discusses the concept of resilient cities within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. Written by an international panel of...

This is a book about urban complexity how it evolves and how it gets destroyed. It explores the structures of interdependency which underpin citie...

Over the last decades waves of deindustrialization have swept across European countries leaving potential consequences across cities, regions, and ...

Auroville in Tamil Nadu, South India, is an internationally recognized endeavour in prefiguring an alternative society: the largest, most diverse, ...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 international license. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offere...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platfo...

For many younger and lower-income people, housing affordability continues to worsen. Based on the academic research of two distinguished housing ...

This book proposes a heritage-based approach for the sustainable urban development of the historic cities. The rapid growth of the cities, under th...

This book couples data analytics with social behavioural studies and participatory design to derive deeper insights on city dwellers present needs ...

This book couples data analytics with social behavioural studies and participatory design to derive deeper insights on city dwellers present needs ...

This open access book offers valuable insights into experimenting with New European Bauhaus values and principles in urban transformation, drawing ...

Affordable Housing in the United States addresses the issue of affordability, or lack thereof, in housing, going beyond conventional policy discuss...

Affordable Housing in the United States addresses the issue of affordability, or lack thereof, in housing, going beyond conventional policy discuss...

Affordable Housing in the United States addresses the issue of affordability, or lack thereof, in housing, going beyond conventional policy discuss...

Affordable Housing in the United States addresses the issue of affordability, or lack thereof, in housing, going beyond conventional policy discuss...

Aligned with global trends in post-industrialization, the economy of Metro Vancouver is changing, but along its own trajectory. The focus is shifti...

The book discusses some of the issues related to proximity, challenges an acritical use of the concept and highlights several dimensions that may b...

When firms and people are located near each other in cities and in industrial clusters, they benefit in various ways, including by reducing the cos...

This open access book explores the use of technologies for urban safety and security. Rather than focusing on the technologies themselves, it provi...

Two contrasting terms are joined to conjugate the traditional idea of metropolis (the centre of a vast territory, hierarchically organised, dense, ...

This book examines smart cities through the lens of the information and communication technology (ICT)-driven transformation of the economy and eco...

This book was jointly launched by the National Academy of Economic Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and UN-HABITAT. It uses the i...

The book explores the uneven spatial distribution of territory resources and its implication for the sustainable development of regions and cities....

There is little doubt that in recent years, enterprise has been considered an essential approach in the alleviation of deprivation existing in the ...

Innovation, which in essence is the generation of knowledge and its subsequent application in the marketplace in the form of novel products and pro...

The housing crisis confronts two of North Americas contemporary urban challenges: affordability and the need to curtail urban sprawl through densif...

The housing crisis confronts two of North Americas contemporary urban challenges: affordability and the need to curtail urban sprawl through densif...

This book delves into the concept of city-sea interface as a space of strong physical, ecological, social and functional connection between the edg...

Today, the new Indonesian capital city, Nusantara, planning is being anticipated as representing national identity, a model city, or a gift to the ...

This book introduces an indispensable tool: the carbon footprint calculator for urban planning. In the face of the escalating climate crisis, urban...

Economic inequality continues to contribute to political and social instability around the world. This instability stifles development and results ...

This book bridges the gap between theoretical and empirical understandings of the informal sector to provide insight into the role of the informal ...

Zygmunt Bauman has historically debated the inconsistencies of global capitalism in his different texts and offered a diagnosis of global capitalis...

Despite the rise of global technocratic ideals of city-making, cities around the world are not merging into indistinguishable duplicates of one ano...

This book offers state-of-the-art tools for thinking for urban designers, planners and decision-makers.Thematically it focuses on the contexts of p...

This book covers multiple dimensions of future mobility systems in smart cities, mapping out the innovations that are needed, presenting ideas on h...

This book covers multiple dimensions of future mobility systems in smart cities, mapping out the innovations that are needed, presenting ideas on h...

Residential Property Appraisal, Volumes 1 and 2 are essential handbooks not only for students studying surveying but also for surveyors and others ...