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Urban Development eBook Series

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  • 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
    Unlock the potential of transit-oriented development in developing countries. Urban railways can improve mobility, accessibility, and economic growth. This insightful guide provides strategies for financing these systems through land value capture, turning transit investments into sustainable urban development.This practical resource is for policymakers, urban planners, and investors seeking to ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transforming Cities with Transit

    Transit and Land-Use Integration for Sustainable Urban Development

    by Hiroaki Suzuki, Robert Cervero, Kanako Iuchi ...
    Series series Urban Development
    'Transforming Cities with Transit' explores the complex process of transit and land-use integration in rapidly growing cities in developing countries. As one of the most promising strategies for advancing environmental sustainability, economic competitiveness, and socially inclusive development in fast-growing cities, transit and land-use integration is increasingly being embraced by policy-makers ... Read more

    $14.99 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

    $17.99 USD

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    Edited by John Marangos ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This contributed volume explores the political economy and socioeconomic aspects of the Greek Financial Crisis both within the country's borders and as part of the global economy. With chapters authored by international experts, this book examines and explicitly deals with specific and important issues that have been ignored by the dominant socioeconomic theory and practice, which have largely ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Fear City

    New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics

    by Kim Phillips-Fein ...
    PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTAn epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster—and an anatomy of the austerity politics that continue to shape the world todayWhen the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible. How could the country's largest metropolis fail? How could the capital of the financial world go bankrupt? Yet the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • State of Urban Services in India's Cities

    Spending and Financing

    by Kala Seetharam Sridhar, A. Venugopala Reddy ...
    With increasing population and expanding demand for urban infrastructure services, the capacities of local governments in many developing countries are overburdened. Adequate infrastructure is not only necessary for increasing productivity but also improving the quality of living. Given the primacy of public service delivery for cities to become engines of growth, this book answers two critical ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Network Reliability in Practice

    Selected Papers from the Fourth International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability

    Edited by David Levinson, Henry X. Liu, Michael Bell ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book contains selected peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the Fourth International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability (INSTR) Conference held at the University of Minnesota July 22-23, 2010. International scholars, from a variety of disciplines--engineering, economics, geography, planning and transportation—offer varying perspectives on modeling and analysis of the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Property Tax in BRICS Megacities

    Local Government Financing and Financial Sustainability

    by Marco Salm ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The overall objective of the book is to holistically assess the property tax systems in BRICS megacities. As megacities play a vital role within their respective countries – economically, administratively, and from a human development perspective – they experience the costs and benefits of urbanization simultaneously with major investment needs, rising poverty, and increasing congestion and ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Institutional Position of Seaports

    An International Comparison

    by H. Stevens ...
    Series Book 51 - GeoJournal Library
    The phenomenon of international seaport administration is the subject of this book. As a Ph.D.-student at the Delft University of Technology (period 1993 - 1997) I had the opportunity to develop and exercise my hobby on a full time base. The result was a Ph.D.-dissertation which was defended in December 1997. Unfortunately, these research results were published in Dutch while the majority of the ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Urbanization in Asia

    Governance, Infrastructure and the Environment

    Edited by Kala Seetharam Sridhar, Guanghua Wan ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This work focuses on urban governance in the developing world, its aim being to bring a holistic perspective to the debate on urban governance in Asia and around the globe. It has been divided into three sections: The first section is on rural interventions as they influence urbanization and its problems/solutions. The second focuses on urban governance, infrastructure programs, service delivery ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Globalization and Regional Growth in Europe

    Past Trends and Future Scenarios

    by Roberta Capello, Ugo Fratesi, Laura Resmini ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    After a description of the new forms of globalization currently shaping our world, and of their possible spatial effects, the book highlights which European regions have in the past succeeded in taking advantage of globalization trends and identifies the major reasons for their success. The book also offers a prospective analysis utilizing scenarios based on different assumptions of how ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Infrastructure Productivity Evaluation

    Edited by Wouter Jonkhoff, Walter Manshanden ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Infrastructure construction and use is at the heart o the current political debate. Not only are European member state governments investing large amounts of money to alleviate the harmful effects of the economic downturn due to the credit crisis, EU accession countries receive large amounts of cohesion funds for infrastructure purposes. Infrastructure is widely believed to contribute largely to ... Read more

    $40.99 USD