Urban Economics

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...

This open access book provides an overview of urban digital platforms such as Airbnb and Deliveroo, which, along with Amazon, Google, Facebook, and...

This book addresses some of the countless challenges faced by developing countries when adopting sustainable design and construction and offers sug...

The chapters of this book synthesize papers on the inter-related topics of urban economics, real estate, transportation and public policy and inclu...

A panoramic account of the urban politics and deep social divisions that gave rise to UberThe first city to fight back against Uber, Washington, D....

This book provides readers with an analysis of econometric methods using statistical information to examine actual aspects of Japan's regional econ...

This study adopts a spatial lens to shed light on weaknesses in competitiveness that have left Latin America unprepared to fully realize the potent...

This report employs a territorial lens to understand the persistently low economic growth rates in Latin America and the Caribbean. Using new data ...

Sets out a rich and complex topic in ways that are both accessible and sufficiently nuanced. There is probably no more urgent issue than the questi...

The urbanization rate in China soared from 29.4% in 1996 to 52.6% in 2012 following an upsurge in the construction of development zones, new urban ...

Housing and neighbourhoods have an important contribution to make to our wellbeing and our sense of our place in the world. This book, written for ...

Hosting the Olympic Games reveals the true costs involved for the cities that hold these large-scale sporting events. It uncovers the financing of ...