Urban Economics

This insightful volume delves into the intricate relationship between economic growth and tourism effectiveness in China's diverse regions. With a ...

This book introduces the subject of valuation. It comprehensively explains basic concepts which connect valuation with economics such as price, val...

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

Growth in developing Asia and the Pacific is expected to remain resilient, propelled by strong domestic demand, improving semiconductor exports, an...

Urban Squares suggests a specific and fresh take on agorology - the study of urban squares. The approach is one of recording everyday life and focu...

Promoted as a prestigious economic opportunity and often aggressively sought by local leaders, hosting a modern Olympics can in fact be a city-kill...

Promoted as a prestigious economic opportunity and often aggressively sought by local leaders, hosting a modern Olympics can in fact be a city-kill...

Urban allometry empirically describes how things, for example crime, GDP, emissions, energy use, area, street length, housing prices, etc. change i...

The book poses key questions on the contemporary practices of experience-oriented urbanism from the perspective of the affective turn. Departing fr...

This book provides indispensable and interdisciplinary insights into the revitalization and redevelopment of urban centers in war-stricken conflict...

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...