Urban Economics
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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...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Varieties of Capital Cities
David Kaufmann
‘Varieties of Capital Cities provides a thorough and sweeping assessment of the ways four leading capital cities struggle to control their economic destinies through public locational policies. In a trenchant analysis of the economic, go...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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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...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Evaluation of Complex Infrastructure Projects
Lasse Gerrits, Stefan Verweij
‘Disentangling within-case complexity is a challenging task; even more so if one examines multiple cases. Gerrits and Verweij brilliantly demonstrate, using the latest conceptual and technical innovations, and through the concrete exampl...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Geography, Open Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Edited by Urban Gråsjö, Charlie Karlsson, Iréne Bernhard
‘By identifying the ways in which open innovation influences the ability of incumbents and potential entrepreneurs to innovate and to appropriate the benefits of innovation, this book elegantly presents modern innovation models, highligh...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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How Great Cities Happen
John Stanley, Janet Stanley, Roslynne Hansen
‘This fine volume on cities draws from the considerable stock of wisdom accumulated over many years by its three authors, all of whom have leading international reputations and experience in the fields of city planning and management. It...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Global Developments in Public Infrastructure Procurement
Darrin Grimsey, Mervyn K. Lewis
‘Today there is more public debate than ever about the state of public infrastructure and the wisdom of selecting particular options for significant investments. This timely publication by Grimsey and Lewis, building upon their earlier k...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Time, Space and Capital
Åke E. Andersson, David Emanuel Andersson
‘In this age of specialization, this book is breathtaking in its success in integrating knowledge from not only the social but also humanistic and natural sciences. The authors have devoted decades in creating an inspiring study which he...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Entrepreneurial Neighbourhoods
Edited by Maarten van Ham, Darja Reuschke, Reinout Kleinhans, Colin Mason, Stephen Syrett
‘This book is a must-read for all those who are interested in the relations between neighbourhoods, communities and entrepreneurship. It provides a full account of the latest research on this topic, highlighting the diversity of experien...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Understanding China's Urbanization
Li Zhang, Richard LeGates, Min Zhao
‘. . . this book does an excellent job of distilling huge amounts of information on the last four decades of China’s great economic and urban transformations into a highly readable text and gets across very clearly its central message of...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Regional and Urban Policy of the European Union
Philip McCann
‘. . . Philip McCann has provided an outstanding book on current trends and future prospects of EU Cohesion policy. The book deserves our attention because of the scope and variety of its coverage.’ – Annals of Regional ScienceeBook:Find out more$39.96
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China’s Urban Century
Edited by François Gipouloux
‘Overall, this is an admirable group effort by Chinese and European scholars and institutions to jointly study Chinese urbanism. It offers useful narratives that map the macro trends of Chinese urbanization.’ – Xuefei Ren, Paciffic AffairseBook:Find out more$40.00