Urban Economics

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 ...