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East Asia and Pacific Cities
Expanding Opportunities for the Urban Poor
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Urbanization in East Asia and the Pacific has created enormous opportunity for many. Yet the rapid growth of cities can also create challenges as national and local governments try to keep up with the needs of their growing populations. Among these challenges is a lack of affordable housing, resulting...
Connecting Greater Mekong Subregion Railways
A Strategic Framework
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
This strategic framework develops a practical approach to railway integration in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), provides GMS countries with an initial framework for achieving integration and interoperability, identifies priority initiatives, builds a platform for further dialogue and discussion between and among GMS countries, and provides a context for evaluating future projects.
Inclusive Growth and Development in India
Challenges for Underdeveloped Regions and the Underclass
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
India is one of the fastest growing countries in the world. However, high economic growth is accompanied by social stratification and widening economic disparity between states. This book illustrates some important aspects of underdevelopment and the process by which the underclass is left behind by focusing on the country's most neglected regions.
India's Reluctant Urbanization
Thinking Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Through a close examination of India's policies, economic system, social systems and politics, this study explores the numerous perspectives and debates on India's urbanization. The authors link contemporary urban issues with emerging challenges associated with policies and city management.
The New Economy of the Inner City
Restructuring, Regeneration and Dislocation in the 21st Century Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
Following the restructuring process which swept away the traditional manufacturing economy of the inner city 25 years ago, new industries are transforming these former post-industrial landscapes. These creative, technology-intensive industries include Internet services, computer graphics and imaging,...
Reconstructing Urban Economics
Towards a Political Economy of the Built Environment
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Neoclassical economics, the intellectual bedrock of modern capitalism, faces growing criticisms, as many of its key assumptions and policy prescriptions are systematically challenged. Yet, there remains one field of economics where these limitations continue virtually unchallenged: the study of cities...
Property Rights, Land Values and Urban Development
Betterment and Compensation in China
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Land value capture has long been a hotly debated topic, and it has influenced a wide variety of land ownership regimes. Property Rights, Land Values and Urban Development examines the role and impact of government intervention on land markets in China. It reveals that the state has taken selective advantage...
Emergent Phenomena in Housing Markets
Gentrification, Housing Search, Polarization
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012
The housing market, like every market, is the product of thousands of interacting buyers and sellers driven by different interests. But unlike other markets, the housing market is able to profoundly transform the socioeconomic structure and the image of a city. Very often, changes in urban space are...
by Roberta Capello, K. Bithas, R. Camagni
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The aim of this book is to highlight the great potential of decentralized (i.e. local or urban) energy policies in achieving environmentally-benign developments for modern cities. Urban sustainability is placed in the context of the debate on global sustainable development. A wide array of policy...
by Fabio Cutaia
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
This book explores the opportunities offered by Strategic Environmental Assessment in the context of guaranteeing the synchronized integration of landscape (in all its aspects) within urban plans, thereby helping to overcome the constraints of rigidly framed, sector-focused laws and a purely aesthetic...
The Icon Project
Architecture, Cities, and Capitalist Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
In the last quarter century, a new form of iconic architecture has appeared throughout the world's major cities. Typically designed by globe-trotting "starchitects" or by a few large transnational architectural firms, these projects are almost always funded by the private sector in the service...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
As cities are rapidly expanding and encroaching into agricultural and natural areas, a question of primary concern is how this expansion affects surrounding agriculture and natural landscapes. This book presents a wide spectrum of both theoretical and empirical approaches to simulation and assessment...
by John Yinger
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Lecture Notes in Urban Economics and Urban Policy provides a wide-ranging introduction to urban economics and urban policy by Professor John Yinger, one of the world's leading scholars in urban economics. It draws on his extensive teaching and publication record to provide detailed lecture notes for...
Desert Problems and Desertification in Central Asia
The Researchers of the Desert Institute
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Since 1962 the Desert Institute of the former Academy of Science of the USSR has been conducting research work in the arid and semi-arid zones of central Asia. This outstanding experience in desert and desertification problems, and the possibilities of sustainable land use under difficult environmental...