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Fuzzy Planning
The Role of Actors in a Fuzzy Governance Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Many of the key notions associated with spatial planning are essentially ’fuzzy’ in their nature. For example, while almost everyone accepts ’sustainability’ as an important goal of planning, the actions of the actors involved can render the achieved ’sustainability’ minimal, or even counterproductive....
Economic Geography
Places, Networks and Flows
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
The turbulence of the current times has dramatically transformed the world’s economic geographies. The scale and scope of such changes require urgent attention. With intellectual roots dating to the nineteenth century, economic geography has traditionally sought to examine the spatial distributions...
The Economics of International Immigration
Environment, Unemployment, the Wage Gap, and Economic Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
This is the first book that takes a theoretical approach to the effects of international immigration by considering the current economic topics confronted by more highly developed countries such as Japan. Developed here is the classic trade model by Heckscher–Ohlin–Samuelson, McDougall’s basic...
The Evolution of Great World Cities
Urban Wealth and Economic Growth
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Some cities seem destined to become major financial capitals, yet never do—Seville, for instance, was the centre of Spain's opulent New World Empire, but failed to become a financial metropolis. Others, like former colonial backwater Hong Kong, defy the odds by growing into major trading centres....
by Stefano L. Tresca
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Smart cities, drones, 3D printing, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, driverless cars, and other innovations that used to be sci-fi just a few years ago.
YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD WILL NEVER BE THE SAME
By 2030 nearly 70% of the world’s population will be residents of a city. That...
Motivation and Job Satisfaction in Oyo State Civil Service
Motivation in Nigerian State Civil Service
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2012 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, Obafemi Awolowo University, language: English, abstract: The book examined motivation and Job satisfaction in Oyo State Service.It also appraised the existing motivating packages for workers in the state and...
Small Business and the City
The Transformative Potential of Small Scale Entrepreneurship
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
In Small Business and the City, Rafael Gomez, Andre Isakov, and Matt Semansky highlight the power of small-scale entrepreneurship to transform local neighbourhoods and the cities they inhabit. Studying the factors which enable small businesses to survive and thrive, they highlight the success of a...
Global Cities
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Why have some cities become great global urban centers, and what cities will be future leaders?
From Athens and Rome in ancient times to New York and Singapore today, a handful of cities have stood out as centers of global economic, military, or political power. In the twenty-first century,...
by Jaydeep Banerjee
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Johnny has paradoxical views on life, has a mysterious persona, and often wears eccentric masks. How do these views influence an ordinary boy towards an extraordinary business—A restaurant serving human meat? And yet this book is not about business. But about a boy's journey from adolescence to maturity....
Cities and the Super-Rich
Real Estate, Elite Practices and Urban Political Economies
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
With the rise of wealth inequalities, our cities are changing dramatically. This collection critically engages with and advances existing debates on the super-rich and their roles in these transformations. An interdisciplinary range of contributions from international experts including sociologists,...
City Making and Global Labor Regimes
Chinese Immigrants and Italy's Fast Fashion Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This book investigates the success story of the fast fashion industry—mainly owned by Chinese migrants—in Prato, Italy. It outlines how Prato has become the center of a value chain stretching from suppliers in China and Turkey all the way to buyers in Europe. Despite this, a policy attacking Chinese...
The City Moves West
Economic and Industrial Growth in Central West Texas
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Where water supply, railway transportation, and oil reserves have been abundant, towns in central West Texas have prospered; where these resources are few, settlements have maintained only slight growth or disappeared entirely. Supporting his conclusions with profuse statistical evidence, Robert L. Martin...
Economic Revitalization
Cases and Strategies for City and Suburb
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2002
In Economic Revitalization: Cases and Strategies for City and Suburb Fitzgerald and Leigh answer the need for a text that incorporates social justice and sustainability into how we think about and practice economic development. It is one of the first to talk about how revitalization strategies are...
A Primer for Spatial Econometrics
With Applications in R
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
This book aims at meeting the growing demand in the field by introducing the basic spatial econometrics methodologies to a wide variety of researchers. It provides a practical guide that illustrates the potential of spatial econometric modelling, discusses problems and solutions and interprets empirical results.