Urban economics books

2663 books were found.

Things Still Fall Apart: Quo Usque Tandem

Things Still Fall Apart: Quo Usque Tandem

Author: Nelio Dorea De Oliveira
ISBN: 9781839524400
Format: Paperback
$25.85

Things Still Fall Apart shows that Africa is a neglected and exploited continent. Since it was invaded c.1500 by...  Read More >>

Crossing the Divide: Rural to Urban Migration in Developing Countries

Crossing the Divide: Rural to Urban Migration in Developing...

Author: Robert E.B. Lucas (Professor of Economics, Professor of Economics, Boston University)
ISBN: 9780197602157
Format: Hardback
$233.00

A comprehensive examination of the nature, causes, and consequences of internal migration in developing countriesDespite...  Read More >>

Place, Productivity, and Prosperity: Revisiting Spatially-Targeted Policies for Regional Development

Place, Productivity, and Prosperity: Revisiting Spatially-Targeted...

Author: Somik Lall ,  William Maloney
ISBN: 9781464816703
Format: Paperback
$128.04

Develops a framework for thinking through spatially-targeted policies and assessing their social value, while presenting...  Read More >>

Development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China

Development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China...

Author: Xueqing Jing
ISBN: 9789811615801
Format: Paperback
$336.35

This book focuses on the level of industrial synergy development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China. The...  Read More >>

Sustainable Infrastructure Investment: Toward a More Equitable Future

Sustainable Infrastructure Investment: Toward a More...

Author: Eric Christian Bruun
ISBN: 9781032157979
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This book provides examples and suggestions for readers to understand how public investment decisions for sustainable...  Read More >>

Mega-Events, City and Power

Mega-Events, City and Power

Author: Nelma Gusmão de Oliveira (Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia, Brazil)
ISBN: 9780367563653
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book examines the power relations that emerge from the convergence of the universe in which the sporting spectacle...  Read More >>

Urban Competitiveness in Developing Economies

Urban Competitiveness in Developing Economies

Author: Peter Karl Kresl
ISBN: 9780367516840
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Plenty has been written on the competitiveness of megacities, capital cities and regional hubs. Cities in developing...  Read More >>

Sustainable Infrastructure Investment: Toward a More Equitable Future

Sustainable Infrastructure Investment: Toward a More...

Author: Eric Christian Bruun
ISBN: 9781032157986
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book provides examples and suggestions for readers to understand how public investment decisions for sustainable...  Read More >>

Architectural, Construction, Environmental and Digital Technologies for Future Cities: Experience and Challenges from Russian Cities

Architectural, Construction, Environmental and Digital...

Author: Natalia Potienko ,  Elena Ahmedova
ISBN: 9783030947699
Format: Hardback
$465.72

This book offers an overview of Russian and international experience in developing the concept of future cities...  Read More >>

Going Remote: How the Flexible Work Economy Can Improve Our Lives and Our Cities

Going Remote: How the Flexible Work Economy Can Improve...

Author: Matthew E. Kahn
ISBN: 9780520384316
Format: Hardback
$44.95

A leading urban economist's hopeful study of how shifts to remote work can change all of our lives for the better....  Read More >>

Equity, Evaluation, and International Cooperation: In Pursuit of Proximate Peers in an African City

Equity, Evaluation, and International Cooperation: In...

Author: Gabriella Y. Carolini
ISBN: 9780192865489
Format: Hardback
$144.95

Equity, Evaluation, and International Cooperation provides a grounded analysis of the production of international...  Read More >>

Cities and Economic Inequality in Latin America: Intra-Urban Inequality in Argentina

Cities and Economic Inequality in Latin America: Intra-Urban...

Author: Lena Simet
ISBN: 9781032063607
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book examines trends and determinants of economic inequality in cities in Latin America. It asks why some cities...  Read More >>

Sports & Modernity in Late Imperial Ethiopia

Sports & Modernity in Late Imperial Ethiopia

Author: Dr Katrin Bromber
ISBN: 9781847012920
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Innovative study of the role of sports in modernity in Africa.  Read More >>

In the Name of Inclusion: The Redevelopment of Urban Villages and its Implications on Citizenship in China

In the Name of Inclusion: The Redevelopment of Urban...

Author: Xiaoqing Zhang
ISBN: 9789813361225
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This book follows the citizenship-based approach and interrogates the policies on urban village redevelopment from...  Read More >>

Sustainable Residential Investing: How to Make Profits with Positive Impacts from UK Property

Sustainable Residential Investing: How to Make Profits...

Author: Anna Harper
ISBN: 9781032053097
Format: Paperback
$60.99

"This book draws on expertise from within and beyond real estate, provides a simple framework for updating your...  Read More >>

Sustainable Residential Investing: How to Make Profits with Positive Impacts from UK Property

Sustainable Residential Investing: How to Make Profits...

Author: Anna Harper
ISBN: 9781032053127
Format: Hardback
$231.00

"This book draws on expertise from within and beyond real estate, provides a simple framework for updating your...  Read More >>

An Insider's Guide to Place Branding: Shaping the Identity and Reputation of Cities, Regions and Countries

An Insider's Guide to Place Branding: Shaping the Identity...

Author: Florian Kaefer
ISBN: 9783030671464
Format: Paperback
$129.35

This professional guidebook highlights brand development and management for cities, regions, countries, and destinations....  Read More >>

Patrick Geddes’ Contribution to Sociology and Urban Planning: Vision of A City

Patrick Geddes’ Contribution to Sociology and Urban...

Author: Indra Munshi
ISBN: 9780367524043
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book explores Patrick Geddes’s significant contributions to urban planning and sociology. His vision of the...  Read More >>

Land Quality and Sustainable Urban Forms: Changing Landscapes and Socioeconomic Structures of European Cities

Land Quality and Sustainable Urban Forms: Changing Landscapes...

Author: Ilaria Tombolini ,  Jesús Rodrigo-Comino
ISBN: 9783030947316
Format: Hardback
$336.35

In the panorama of studies related to the ability of lands to support both natural processes and agricultural production...  Read More >>

The Elgar Companion to Urban Infrastructure Governance: Innovation, Concepts and Cases

The Elgar Companion to Urban Infrastructure Governance:...

Author: Matthias Finger ,  Numan Yanar
ISBN: 9781800375604
Format: Hardback
$445.05

Providing a comprehensive overview of the governance of urban infrastructures, this Companion combines illustrative...  Read More >>

Tropical Constrained Environments and Sustainable Adaptations: Businesses and Communities

Tropical Constrained Environments and Sustainable Adaptations:...

Author: Simona Azzali ,  K Thirumaran
ISBN: 9789813346338
Format: Paperback
$232.85

Successful communities and businesses tend to survive in a changing environment given their strong intuitive and...  Read More >>

Public Acceptability of Congestion Charging in China

Public Acceptability of Congestion Charging in China...

Author: Qiyang Liu
ISBN: 9789811902352
Format: Hardback
$206.97

This book explores the public acceptability of congestion pricing in the Chinese context. Successful in western...  Read More >>

Emerging Work Trends in Urban India: COVID-19 and Beyond

Emerging Work Trends in Urban India: COVID-19 and Beyond...

Author: Nidhi Tandon (East Brunswick FIRST Inc., New Jersey, USA) ,  Pratyusha Basu (University of Texas at El Paso, Texas, USA)
ISBN: 9781032027548
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book offers an overview of India’s emerging digital economy and the challenges and opportunities for urban...  Read More >>

A Research Agenda for Real Estate

A Research Agenda for Real Estate

Author: Piyush Tiwari ,  Julie T. Miao
ISBN: 9781839103926
Format: Hardback
$285.00

Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore...  Read More >>

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