Urban Economics

An invaluable text for all those interested in cities and economic change. Empirically grounded, theoretically informed, and written in a highly ac...

An invaluable text for all those interested in cities and economic change. Empirically grounded, theoretically informed, and written in a highly ac...

Innovative study of the role of sports in modernity in Africa. Sports in Ethiopia was always more than a means of useful recreation. It was also a...

The economic and political situation of cities has shifted in recent years in light of rapid growth amidst infrastructure decline, the suburbanizat...

Protracted economic crises, accelerating inequalities, and increased resource scarcity present significant challenges for the majority of Africa's ...

Long after the Mexican-American War brought the Southwest under the United States flag, Anglos and Hispanics within the region continued to struggl...

Urban regeneration is currently taking place in inner-city Johannesburg. This book presents an alternative, multi-layered account for reading the p...

An investigation of the practice of commoning in urban housing and its necessity for challenging economic injustice in our rapidly gentrifying citi...

Following years of investigation and research on the changes of Chinas land system, the author discusses the evolution of urbanization and rural la...

The growth rate of the Indian economy has plummeted sharply from 9 per cent in 2010 to below 5 per cent over 201214. It is essential to sustain a g...

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...

Uneven Urbanscape takes a new theoretically grounded view of how society produces and reproduces ethnoracial economic inequality. Drawing on empiri...

Two aspects of contemporary urban life in Africa are often described as sources of political change: the emergence of a large urban middle class an...