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1.

The Dependent City Revisited: The Political Economy of Urban Development and Social Policy » Read Now
by Paul Kantor. 284 pgs.

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Urban Environments in Emerging Economies » Read Now
by David L. McKee. 184 pgs.

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Those concerned with growth and development at national or local levels must pay significantly more attention to the physical structure of urban settings which house many of the leading sectors of the economies of nations. These metropolitan areas must retain the flexibility necessary to meet the...
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Those concerned with growth and development at national or local levels must pay significantly more attention to the physical structure of urban settings which house many of the leading sectors of the economies of nations. These metropolitan areas must retain the flexibility necessary to meet the needs of an ever-changing mix of activities. Structural, environmental, and economic concerns are brought together to help the reader better understand the problems and identify solutions. This work will be of interest to those economists, environmentalists, sociologists, and practitioners concerned with growth, change, and the environment in urban settings, as well as planning and development agencies in Third World settings.
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Studies in the Structure of the Urban Economy » Read Now
by Edwin S. Mills. 156 pgs.

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Cities in the World-System » Read Now
by Resat Kasaba, Immanuel Wallerstein. 214 pgs.

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The contributors to this volume question the boundaries and limitations that are imposed on the study of cities by urban sociology. They pose issues from a long-term and large-scale perspective and present them in a relational framework. The book's first part deals with places outside of western...
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The contributors to this volume question the boundaries and limitations that are imposed on the study of cities by urban sociology. They pose issues from a long-term and large-scale perspective and present them in a relational framework. The book's first part deals with places outside of western Europe and with times that preceded the establishment of the European-based capitalist world-economy. The articles in part two discuss the different aspects of the concept of hegemony and the establishment of domination as these apply to cities in the world-system. In part three the focus shifts back to extra-European zones where the patterns of transformation around cities under the aegis of capitalist world-economy are examined.
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The Public Economy of Urban Communities: Papers » Read Now
by Julius Margolis, Conference on Urban Public Expenditures. 264 pgs.

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The Economies of Central City Neighborhoods » Read Now
by Richard D. Bingham, Zhongcai Zhang. 249 pgs.

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In The Economies of Central City Neighborhoods Bingham and Zhang examine the location of industry employment in a variety of producer and consumer-oriented industries in relation to major neighborhood characteristics such as demographic, labor force, socioeconomic, and housing variables. This study...
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In The Economies of Central City Neighborhoods Bingham and Zhang examine the location of industry employment in a variety of producer and consumer-oriented industries in relation to major neighborhood characteristics such as demographic, labor force, socioeconomic, and housing variables. This study is informative and illuminating to central city revitalization/redevelopment planning and related efforts that often take place at the neighborhood level.
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How Green Is the City? Sustainability Assessment and the Management of Urban Environments » Read Now
by Walter De Lannoy, Dimitri Devuyst, Luc Hens. 457 pgs.

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Urban lifestyles characterized by high consumption levels, exuberant use of natural resources, excessive production of waste, a widening gap between rich and poor, and rapid growth of the global human population pose a major problem for the future survival of our species. Urban development must...
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Urban lifestyles characterized by high consumption levels, exuberant use of natural resources, excessive production of waste, a widening gap between rich and poor, and rapid growth of the global human population pose a major problem for the future survival of our species. Urban development must therefore meet the needs of the present generations without compromising the needs of future generations. Putting this goal into practice remains a major challenge. This book introduces "sustainability assessment," a new concept that aims to help in steering societies in a more sustainable direction, and applies this concept to cities. It deals with practical ways to reach a more sustainable state in urban areas through such tools as strategic environmental assessment, sustainability assessment, direction analysis, baseline setting and progress measurement, sustainability targets, and ecological footprint analysis. With these tools, humans can maintain or improve the health, productivity, and quality of their lives in harmony with nature.
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Innovative Cities » Read Now
by James Simmie. 254 pgs.

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Innovative Cities presents a unique international comparison of innovation in Amsterdam, London, Milan, Paris and Stuttgart. Based on research funded by the ESRC program on 'Cities: Competitiveness and Cohesion', it compares and contrasts the reasons why these sites are among the top ten innovative...
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Innovative Cities presents a unique international comparison of innovation in Amsterdam, London, Milan, Paris and Stuttgart. Based on research funded by the ESRC program on 'Cities: Competitiveness and Cohesion', it compares and contrasts the reasons why these sites are among the top ten innovative cities in Europe. Innovation is one of the key driving forces of economic growth in modern economies. The research reported here takes a careful and directly comparable look at what characteristics and conditions in the five cities have led to the flourishing of innovation in them. Researchers with detailed local knowledge have applied the same analytical tools and survey techniques to investigating this question and the result present a unique international comparison of innovation in the five cities.
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The Economies of Central City Neighborhoods » Read Now
by Richard D. Bingham, Zhongcai Zhang. 249 pgs.

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In The Economies of Central City Neighborhoods Bingham and Zhang examine the location of industry employment in a variety of producer and consumer-oriented industries in relation to major neighborhood characteristics such as demographic, labor force, socioeconomic, and housing variables. This study...
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In The Economies of Central City Neighborhoods Bingham and Zhang examine the location of industry employment in a variety of producer and consumer-oriented industries in relation to major neighborhood characteristics such as demographic, labor force, socioeconomic, and housing variables. This study is informative and illuminating to central city revitalization/redevelopment planning and related efforts that often take place at the neighborhood level.
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Development and Planning Economy: Environmental and Resource Issues » Read Now
by P. A. Stone. 248 pgs.

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Economic Issues in Metropolitan Growth » Read Now
by Paul R. Portney. 143 pgs.

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An Introduction to Geographical Economics: Trade, Location and Growth ("Geography in Regional and Urban Economics" begins on p. 23) » Read Now
by Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen, Charles Van Marrewijk. 350 pgs.

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The need for better understanding of the role location plays in economic life was first and most famously made explicit by Bertil Ohlin in 1933. However it is only recently, with the development of computer packages able to handle complex systems, as well as advances in economic theory, that Ohlin's...
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The need for better understanding of the role location plays in economic life was first and most famously made explicit by Bertil Ohlin in 1933. However it is only recently, with the development of computer packages able to handle complex systems, as well as advances in economic theory, that Ohlin's vision has been met and a framework developed which explains the distribution of economic activity across space. This book is an integrated, non-mathematical, first-principles textbook presenting Geographical Economics to advanced students. Its emphasis is on examples, diagrams, and empirical evidence, making it the ideal starting point prior to monographic and journal material.
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Economics and Urban Problems: Diagnoses and Prescriptions » Read Now
by Dick Netzer. 275 pgs.

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A Preface to Urban Economics » Read Now
by Wilbur R. Thompson. 419 pgs.

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...A PREFACE TO URBAN ECONOMICS A PREFACE TO URBAN ECONOMICS WILBUR R. THOMPSON published for RESOURCES...with RFF in 1964 as staff director of the Committee on Urban...