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  • (Re)Discovering Proximity

    Generating New Urbanity—An Action Research for Milan

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
    This book explores the topic of proximity and its relations in the design of contemporary urban fabrics and public spaces. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and reflections on the future of cities have lately shed light on the concept of proximity, which is intended as the relationship between communities and urban functions and as relations among people, built spaces, and open spaces. The ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • 3D Urbanomics

    by Hak Choi ...
    Series Book 2 - Profit Economics Series
    You have probably heard of Ricardo’s rent theory, which is a perpendicular line. You may also have heard of the rent gradient function, which is a negative curve. So, which one is the correct rent theory? People may choose to live away from city center because of the lower rent, but why is city center still so crowded? Why do developers construct higher buildings in suburb where rent is lowest? ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 3D 都市學

    by 蔡克 ...
    Series Book 2 - 利潤經濟學叢書
    你可聽說過李嘉圖的地租理論,那是一條垂直的供給線。你也可能聽說過都市經濟學的租金梯度,那是一條負的曲線。到底,那一條才是正確的租金曲線理論?另,有些人會因為低租金而離開市中心,但若如此,為什麼市中心仍那麼擁擠?而發展商為什麼會在市郊租金低的地方蓋高房子?這些問題都必需在一般都市經濟學上,加上空間競爭理論才能找出普遍性的答案。本書結合區域經濟學及都市經濟學,而寫成 3D 都市學。本書亦分析幾個都市惡夢,如塞車、污染及犯罪。 ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Broad View of Regional Science

    Essays in Honor of Peter Nijkamp

    Series Book 47 - New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives
    This book celebrates the life and work of Peter Nijkamp, whose research provides a strong focus on regional science. His work follows a rigorous, comprehensive approach, centred around analytical modelling and methodological innovation. This edited volume, like Prof Nijkamp’s research, covers a wide range of topics in regional science, analysed through multi-criteria evaluation, evaluation ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • A bubble about to burst? The Spanish Real Estate Market

    Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, grade: 1,0, University of Göttingen (Volkswirtschaftliches Seminar), course: Spanish Economy, 16 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This paper discusses the phenomenon of asset bubbles with an application to the Spanish real estate market. It is organized as follows: The first section provides a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Century of Change

    Beijing's Urban Structure in the 20th Century

    by Yi Wang ...
    Series series The Urban Book Series
    This book provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of Beijing’s urban structure in the 20th century, analyzing essential social and economic changes in the housing sector. Focusing on the urban changes that took place under the market economy after 1978 and beyond, the book addresses the demolition of courtyard houses in Beijing’s old city, the relocation of low-income families from the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • A Cidade de Anápolis - Goiás

    mobilidade e sustentabilidade urbana

    Anápolis, Cidade do Estado de Goiás em seu processo histórico de ocupação, urbanização e transformações ao longo dos anos acabou por exigir uma infraestrutura de qualidade, de dependência e de segurança para atendimento da mobilidade urbana atual. A necessidade de harmonia e sustentabilidade na distribuição e estrutura espaciais, além da mobilidade, em consequência dos adensamentos, dos problemas ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A cidade inteligente

    Tecnologias urbanas e democracia

    Todos queremos cidades com serviços eficientes e baratos que melhorem o transporte, a saúde, a moradia, a educação etc. Mas a questão é como evitar que nossas cidades se tornem máquinas de precarizar trabalhadores, beneficiando apenas a interesses privados. A smart city – essa "grife" que se tornou a cidade repleta de serviços de empresas Big Tech – se mostrou muito mais funcional, otimizada e ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A City Cannot Be a Work of Art

    Learning Economics and Social Theory From Jane Jacobs

    by Sanford Ikeda ...
    This open access book connects Jane Jacobs's celebrated urban analysis to her ideas on economics and social theory. While Jacobs is a legend in the field of urbanism and famous for challenging and profoundly influencing urban planning and design, her theoretical contributions – although central to her criticisms of and proposals for public policy – are frequently overlooked even by her most ... Read more

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  • A Forest Environment Tax Scheme in Japan

    Toward Water Source Cultivation

    This book is a work that focuses on the forest environmental tax. Forest resources have played a major role in preventing global warming by absorbing carbon dioxide and supplying oxygen. However, global economic growth has adversely affected the global environment and has exacerbated global warming due to excessive consumption of forest resources. The functions or “services” of forests are diverse ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • A Good Place to Do Business

    The Politics of Downtown Renewal since 1945

    Series series Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
    The “Pittsburgh Renaissance,” an urban renewal effort launched in the late 1940s, transformed the smoky rust belt city’s downtown. Working-class residents and people of color saw their neighborhoods cleared and replaced with upscale, white residents and with large corporations housed in massive skyscrapers. Pittsburgh’s Renaissance’s apparent success quickly became a model for several struggling ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A Leader and a Laggard

    Manufacturing Industry in Nova Scotia, Quebec and Ontario

    by Roy George ...
    Series series Heritage
    Advanced countries in all parts of the world are concerned with the geographical unevenness of their development. Canada's preoccupation is with the Atlantic provinces, and for years government departments and agencies have tried to improve the region's economy. However, the evidence suggests that the economic gap between the Atlantic provinces and the rest of Canada has remained remarkably ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • A New Driver of Regional Sustainability in Japan

    Inter-regional Network Economies

    Series Book 54 - New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives
    This book highlights the roles of inter-regional networks in regional economies to explore the drivers of sustained regional economic growth. Many industrialized countries are currently undergoing a period of population decline. To enhance sustainability in the regional economy, it is necessary to increase productivity and improve energy efficiency. This book provides new approaches to describing ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • A New Perspective on Agglomeration Economies in Japan

    An Application of Productivity Analysis

    Series Book 20 - New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives
    This book describes various methods of analysis for ascertaining the effects of agglomeration economies, which are important for formulating regional economic policies. Specifically, it describes new analytical approaches using productivity and productive efficiency analyses as methods for understanding agglomeration economies. Additionally, the book provides application results for Japanese ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • A Practical Guide to Concrete Pavement Technology for Developing Countries

    Many countries are exploring the use of concrete to improve the reliability of their road networks. However, many developers, agencies, and companies in the construction industry do not yet have sufficient experience in the use of concrete pavement. This can lead to poorly planned, supervised, or executed infrastructure that requires premature and costly repairs or maintenance. This guide explains ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Primer for Spatial Econometrics

    With Applications in R

    by G. Arbia ...
    Series series Palgrave Texts in Econometrics
    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. ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • A razão neoliberal

    Economias barrocas e pragmática popular

    A partir do estudo das dinâmicas inerentes à economia informal e aos bairros periféricos de Buenos Aires, com marcante presença de migrantes bolivianos, a pensadora argentina Verónica Gago debate neste livro o enraizamento do neoliberalismo nas subjetividades populares e sua persistência na América Latina. A razão neoliberal mostra que o neoliberalismo não ficou nos anos 1990, como sugeria a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Study of China's Foreign Aid

    An Asian Perspective

    Edited by Y. Shimomura, H. Ohashi ...
    This book provides a new perspective of China's controversial foreign aid strategy. The chapters offer a thorough examination of data to show how China has created knowledge in its long experiences of aid and how this accumulated knowledge could contribute to other developing countries. The book also examines China's aid philosophy and strategy through an Asian perspective, instead of the Western ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • A Study of China's Urban-Rural Integration Development

    Series series The Great Transformation of China
    China's urbanization has stunned the world in the past two decades- but as the authors of this book explain, the growth is only set to continue. The divide between urban and rural citizens in China implicates every aspect of Chinese life, from education to pollution to healthcare. In this book, one of China's most celebrated academic urbanists and a major urban planner collaborate in laying out ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • A Tale of Three Cities

    Urban Governance of Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore During COVID-19

    Series Book 19 - Sustainable Development Goals Series
    The proposed book presents the cutting-edge research on the urban development of three cities: Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore. By comparing their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic from an international political economic perspective, this book examines the commonalities and differences in urban governance in these three widely recognized and well-developed Asian cities with outward-oriented ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • A Theory of the Producer-Consumer Household

    The New Keynesian Perspective on Self-Employment

    The quick recovery of Asian economies from recent recessions in comparison to the struggling American and European economies can be attributed in part to the positive aggregate-demand externalities of their self-employment sectors. This book presents a behavioural analysis of this effect, with a detailed focus on producer households. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • A Wealth of Buildings: Marking the Rhythm of English History

    Volume II: 1688–Present

    This two-volume book explores how the great buildings of England bear witness to a thousand years of the nation’s history. In every age, investment in iconic buildings reaches a climax when the prevailing mode of production is operating most effectively, surplus wealth is most plentiful, and the dominant class rules supreme. During such periods of stability and prosperity, the demand for new ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • A Wealth of Buildings: Marking the Rhythm of English History

    Volume I: 1066–1688

    This two-volume book explores how the great buildings of England bear witness to a thousand years of the nation’s history. In every age, investment in iconic buildings reaches a climax when the prevailing mode of production is operating most effectively, surplus wealth is most plentiful, and the dominant class rules supreme. During such periods of stability and prosperity, the demand for new ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Academic Tourism

    Perspectives on International Mobility in Europe

    Series series Tourism, Hospitality & Event Management
    This book presents the latest knowledge on the still under-researched field of academic tourism, which over the past decade has gained in importance at local and national economic levels as a result of increasing international mobility of students and academic staff in higher education. A wide range of themes are explored from various perspectives, with the focus on Europe. Particular attention is ... Read more

    $143.99 USD