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  • Economic History of Cities and Housing

    Edited by Satoshi Baba ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book focuses on urbanization as an attendant consequence of industrialization and sheds light on urban problems such as housing shortages and poverty of jobless people, and the housing and social policies implemented by central and local governments to deal with these problems. Through this book, the volume editor and authors convey the view that urbanization transformed economy and society ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

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  • The Metropolitan Revolution

    How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy

    by Bruce Katz, Jennifer Bradley ...
    Across the US, cities and metropolitan areas are facing huge economic and competitive challenges that Washington won't, or can't, solve. The good news is that networks of metropolitan leaders mayors, business and labor leaders, educators, and philanthropists are stepping up and powering the nation forward. These state and local leaders are doing the hard work to grow more jobs and make their ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Maker City

    A Practical Guide for Reinventing American Cities

    by Peter Hirshberg, Dale Dougherty, Marcia Kadanoff ...
    The Maker City Playbook is a comprehensive case studies and how-to information useful for city leaders, civic innovators, nonprofits, and others engaged in urban economic development. The Maker City Playbook is committed to going beyond stories to find patterns and discern promising practices to help city leaders make even more informed decisions.Maker City PlaybookChapter 1: Introduction and a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Financing Transit-Oriented Development with Land Values

    Adapting Land Value Capture in Developing Countries

    by Hiroaki Suzuki, Jin Murakami, Yu-Hung Hong, Beth Tamayose ...
    Series series Urban Development
    Cities in developing countries are experiencing unprecedented urban growth. Unfortunately, this is often accompanied by the negative impacts of sprawl as a result of rapid motorization such as congestion, air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, inefficient use of energy and time, and unequal accessibility. As these cities are often under severe fiscal constraints, they face great challenges in ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mediterranean Labor Markets in the First Age of Globalization

    An Economic History of Real Wages and Market Integration

    by Paul Caruana Galizia ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Scholars have studied the nineteenth century's unprecedented labor flows in global and specific country contexts, but have lacked a comprehensive analysis of the world's old economic core, the Mediterranean. This work provides answers to important questions, such as: If the Mediterranean labor market really was integrated, then why did globalization affect the Western and Eastern Mediterranean so ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Old Industrial Cities Seeking New Road Of Industrialization: Models Of Revitalizing Northeast China

    by Yanji Ma, Lianjun Tong, Pinyu Zhang, Zhiming Cheng, Mark Yoalin Wang ...
    This book aims to investigate how cities in China's rust belt restructure their urban industries and economies. Over the years, China's “economic miracle” has been mainly attributed to rapid development in its coastal region, where the majority of research into the country's development has originated from. Development in the rest of China seems to be attracting relatively scant research attention ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • National Intellectual Capital and the Financial Crisis in Brazil, Russia, India, China, Korea, and South Africa

    by Carol Yeh-Yun Lin, Leif Edvinsson, Jeffrey Chen, Tord Beding ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the biggest event of worldwide proportion was the 2008 global financial crisis, which was caused primarily by ineffective governance, failed surveillance systems, and implementation flaws. While fiscal and monetary policies succeeded in pulling many countries out of a financial freefall, most economies have performed beneath pre-recession levels as ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Demographic Transition, Labour Markets and Regional Resilience

    Edited by Jouke van Dijk, Cristina Martinez, Tamara Weyman ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book discusses the question of how a regional economy can develop under the influence of an ageing and declining population, and how regional development policies can help make labor markets more resilient and more inclusive. As the greatest impacts of demographic change and policy and fiscal challenges can be observed at the local level, examples from European, North American and Asian ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Constructing China's Capitalism

    Shanghai and the Nexus of Urban-Rural Industries

    by D. Buck ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    By investigating the nexus of relationships between urban and rural factories in the Shanghai region of China, this book shines light on an overlooked part of China's massive industrial growth since the 1980s. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Advances in Human Factors and Sustainable Infrastructure

    Proceedings of the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Human Factors and Sustainable Infrastructure, July 27-31, 2016, Walt Disney World®, Florida, USA

    Edited by Jerzy Charytonowicz ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book deals with human factors research directed towards realizing and assessing sustainability in the built environment. It reports on advanced engineering methods for sustainable infrastructure design, as well as on assessments of the efficient methods and the social, environmental, and economic impact of various designs and projects. The book covers a range of topics, including the use of ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Public Choice Economics and the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria

    by Palgrave Pivot ...
    Public Choice Economics and the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria provides an economics perspective on the witchcraft episode, and adds to the growing body of work analyzing prominent historical events using the tools of economics. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Essays on Port Economics

    Edited by Pablo Coto-Millán, Miguel Angel Pesquera, Juan Castanedo ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The aim of this book is to offer a comprehensive overview of the economics of ports for scientists, students and professionals. The text is divided into five self-contained parts: the first chapter defines the demand for port services using an econometric approach. The second part analyzes the provision of port services using the production, cost, investment and profit functions of various ports. ... Read more

    $143.99 USD