Urban Economics

Resilience and Urban Disasters

Edited by Kamila Borsekova, Peter Nijkamp

This book addresses unexpected disasters and shocks in cities and urban systems by providing quantitative and qualitative tools for impact analysis and disaster management. Including environmental catastrophes, political turbulence and e...

Hardback (2019)

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Varieties of Capital Cities

David Kaufmann

The political and symbolic centrality of capital cities has been challenged by increasing economic globalization. This is especially true of secondary capital cities; capital cities which, while being the seat of national political power...

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Cities and Sustainable Technology Transitions

Edited by Marina van Geenhuizen, J. Adam Holbrook, Mozhdeh Taheri

This enlightening book elucidates the leadership challenges of various cities in emerging transitions towards higher levels of sustainability. It examines elements of three socio-technical systems, energy, transport and healthcare, while...

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Geography, Open Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Edited by Urban Gråsjö, Charlie Karlsson, Iréne Bernhard

Developed countries must be incredibly innovative to secure incomes and welfare so that they may successfully compete against international rivals. This book focuses on two specific but interrelated aspects of innovation by incumbent fir...

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Transportation, Knowledge and Space in Urban and Regional Economics

Edited by Kakuya Matsushima, William P. Anderson

This collection of 16 original research chapters by international scholars addresses the complementary roles of transportation and knowledge and their spatial manifestations in modern urban and regional economies. The authors provide res...

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How Great Cities Happen

John Stanley, Janet Stanley, Roslynne Hansen

Urban planners in developed countries are pushing hard for closer integration of land use and transport. At the same time, gaps in knowledge and understanding are becoming more apparent, as the traditional focus has been on the shape of ...

Paperback (2018)

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Creating Cities/Building Cities

Peter K. Kresl, Daniele Ietri

For the past 150 years, architecture has been a significant tool in the hands of city planners and leaders. In Creating Cities/Building Cities, Peter Karl Kresl and Daniele Ietri illustrate how these planners and leaders have utilized ar...

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Global Developments in Public Infrastructure Procurement

Darrin Grimsey, Mervyn K. Lewis

There is widespread acceptance of the importance of infrastructure, but less agreement about how it should be funded and procured. While most public infrastructure is still provided in-house or by traditional procurement methods – with ...

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Time, Space and Capital

Åke E. Andersson, David Emanuel Andersson

In this challenging book, the authors demonstrate that economists tend to misunderstand capital. Frank Knight was an exception, as he argued that because all resources are more or less durable and have uncertain future uses they can cons...

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The Economics of Land Markets and their Regulation

Edited by Paul C. Cheshire, Christian A.L. Hilber

This important volume brings together seminal papers investigating the framework upon which the economic analysis of land markets is based, stretching from the earliest insights of the founding fathers to current debates and research. Re...

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Urban Strategies for Culture-Driven Growth

Nils Wåhlin, Maria Kapsali, Malin H. Näsholm, Tomas Blomquist

Over the past three decades, the European Capital of Culture has grown into one of the most ambitious cultural programs in the world. Through the promotion of cultural diversity across the continent, the program fosters mutual understand...

Hardback (2016)

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