Urban Economics

Unequal distribution of income is one of the most important socio-economic issues. The processes of globalisation and integration are accelerating ...

As the global financial crisis enters its sixth year, this volume offers a wide-ranging critique of its handling. Academics in the field of social ...

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

This book is the first coherent quantified assessment of the economy of the Roman Empire. George Maher argues inventively and rigorously for a much...

An international and historical look at how parenting choices change in the face of economic inequalityLove, Money, and Parenting investigates how ...

This book aims at meeting the growing demand in the field by introducing the basic spatial econometrics methodologies to a wide variety of research...

This book aims at meeting the growing demand in the field by introducing the basic spatial econometrics methodologies to a wide variety of research...

The city is a complex object. Some researchers look at its shape, others at its people, animals, ecology, policy, infrastructures, buildings, histo...

This book analyzes three points: employment conditions for migrant workers, the impact of industrialization as part of industrial clusters upon sur...

The past few decades have witnessed the economic and geopolitical rise of a number of large middle-income countries around the world. This volume f...

More than half the world's population lives in cities, and that proportion is expected to rise to three-quarters by 2050. Urbanization is a global ...

This open access book comes at an opportune time, with land take high on the EU policy agenda. It shows how over one million hectares in Europe bec...

This book examines the relationship between urban migrant movements, struggles and digitality which transforms public space and generates mobile co...

We live in an era of techno-monopoly power in which technocapitalism - through ubiquitous digital platforms - has colonized both the internet and k...

We live in an era of techno-monopoly power in which technocapitalism - through ubiquitous digital platforms - has colonized both the internet and k...

This study was designed and the book prepared by the National Academy of Economics Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and th...

Some cities seem destined to become major financial capitals, yet never doSeville, for instance, was the centre of Spain's opulent New World Empire...

In Small Business and the City, Rafael Gomez, Andre Isakov, and Matt Semansky highlight the power of small-scale entrepreneurship to transform loca...

Abandoned factories, shipyards, warehouses, and refineries are features of many industrialized cities around the world. But despite their state of ...

In Small Business and the City, Rafael Gomez, Andre Isakov, and Matt Semansky highlight the power of small-scale entrepreneurship to transform loca...

The Economics of Urban Diversity explores ethnic and religious minorities in urban economies. In this exciting work, the contributors develop an in...

The author examines the two most advanced eco-city projects: the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City in China, and Masdar City in Abu Dhabi. These are ...

The contributors illustrate what twin analytical and practical challenges emerge from juxtaposing cultural, economic, historical, postcolonial, vir...

The term 'housing crisis' has recently been associated with rising foreclosure rates and tottering financial institutions, particularly in the US a...

This volume is concerned with labor market developments in China from a comparative perspective on selected East and South Asian countries. It clos...

This book reviews the character and impacts of 'actually-existing' neoliberalism in Ireland. It examines the property-development boom and its lega...

This book is the first to provide an introductory overview to the concept of urban informality, taking an international perspective across the glob...

This book is the first to provide an introductory overview to the concept of urban informality, taking an international perspective across the glob...

Social protection systems in Latin America developed in a fragmented manner, offering varying access to benefits and benefit levels to population g...

Ünal uses Turkey as a case study to investigate the effectiveness and efficiency of land and labor markets in spreading economic opportunities with...

Examines Dakar's transformation from a small colonial capital to a dynamic city, highlighting how its resourceful residents challenged French contr...

Can a bold investment in education turn around the economy of an entire city? Gene I. Maeroff, former national education correspondent for the New ...

Can a bold investment in education turn around the economy of an entire city? Gene I. Maeroff, former national education correspondent for the New ...

A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. This book examines the emergence of ...