Urban Economics

Once a blue-collar outpost, Seattle, home to Microsoft, Amazon, and hundreds of startups, transformed into one of the worlds major innovation hubs ...

In this brilliant, very original survey of the politics and meanings of urban landscapes, leading sociologist Göran Therborn offers a tour of the w...

City of Broken Dreams brings the global debate about the urban university to bear on the realities of South African rust-belt cities through a deta...

Architectures of survival is an original and innovative work of history that investigates the relationship between air war and urbanism in modern B...

The future of smart cities has arrived, courtesy of citizens and their phones. To prove it, Daniel T. OBrien explains the transformative insights g...

Every state in the nation has geographic divisionsupstate/downstate, urban/rural, major city/rest of the statethat loom large as barriers to common...

Higher education expert William F. Massy's decades as a professor, senior university officer, and consultant have left him with a passionate belief...

High Rise and Fall tells the story of how the European commercial property industry transformed from a local, small-scale business to an internatio...

This book focuses on economic evaluation data of the urban land and sets the goal in realising urban land economic evaluation based on the models p...

Trading Places is about urban land markets in African cities. It explores how local practice, land governance and markets interact to shape the way...