Urban Economics

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Cities are seen as essentially good: innovative, pro-growth, poverty-reducing. In a challenging corrective to this common portrayal, Christof Parnr...

Cities are seen as essentially good: innovative, pro-growth, poverty-reducing. In a challenging corrective to this common portrayal, Christof Parnr...

Grounded, realistic strategies for cities to foster greater equality and opportunity.In The Divided City, urban practitioner and scholar Alan Malla...

Why do some cities grow economically while others decline? Why do some show sustained economic performance while others cycle up and down? In Keys ...

Cities are central to prosperity: they are hubs of innovation and growth. However, the economic vitality of wealthy cities is marred by persistent ...

Township Economy provides a unique insight into township informal business and entrepreneurship. It is set in the post-apartheid period, in the thi...

Speculation - an economic reality for centuries-is a hallmark of the modern US economy. But how does speculation work? Is it really caused, as some...

Speculation - an economic reality for centuries-is a hallmark of the modern US economy. But how does speculation work? Is it really caused, as some...

While many older American cities struggle to remain vibrant, New Brunswick has transformed itself, adapting to new forms of commerce and a changing...

The Foundations of Complex Evolving Economies seeks to offer an integrated analysis of the anatomy and physiology of the capitalist engine of gener...

Globally, 70 percent of greenhouse gas emissions emanate from cities. Cities are also experiencing an expanding variety and frequency of climate ch...

Today, the Bay Area is home to the most successful knowledge economy in America, while Los Angeles has fallen progressively further behind its neig...

The Foundations of Complex Evolving Economies seeks to offer an integrated analysis of the anatomy and physiology of the capitalist engine of gener...

Our world is becoming more urban. More than fifty percent of the global population now lives in cities, which poses new challenges for sustainable ...

New Jersey has a long history of adapting to a changing economic climate. From its colonial origins to the present day, New Jersey's economy has co...

Today, the Bay Area is home to the most successful knowledge economy in America, while Los Angeles has fallen progressively further behind its neig...

'A latter-day Canterbury Tales ... Serious Money has a serious mission' The Times'Eye-opening ... part guide, part indictment of a yawning wealth g...

This book examines how local and global environment-society relations play out in coastal communities dependent on tourism for economic survival. I...

The concept of 'entrepreneurial ecosystems' has emerged as a means for theorizing and making policy-decisions concerning entrepreneurship and econo...

Reducing residential segregation is the best way to reduce racial inequality in the United States. African American employment rates, earnings, tes...

La présente étude s'appuie sur des données démographiques, des travaux de recherche, des entretiens avec des informateurs clés, ainsi que des étude...

In a rapidly urbanizing world, mayors often see migrants as a burden to their cities' labor markets and a threat to their development. Drawing on n...

Blighted is a powerful narrative about the decades-long decay and remarkable two-year reinvention of Summerdale, an aging apartment community locat...

How can social cohesion be achieved in a meritocratic and multicultural global city-state? Meritocracy poses a paradox: On one hand, it integrates ...

Practical Finance for Property Investment provides readers with an introduction to the most fundamental concepts, principles, analytical methods, a...

This edition of the World Cities Report seeks to provide greater clarity and insights into the future of cities based on existing trends, challenge...

Housing matters to people, be they owner, renter, housing provider, homeless individual, housing professional, or policymaker. Housing in the Unite...

The creative sector is considered to impact on employment and creative sectors employment growth. Using a fixed effects model with time-lags, evide...

Transforming the economic lives of people in extreme poverty and vulnerability is a persistent challenge and drives economic inclusion programs wor...

Winner of the Gold Award in the Tenth Annual Robert Bruss Real Estate Book Competition24 Hour Cities is the very first full length book about Ameri...