Indicators for urban and regional planning

the interplay of policy and methods

This book focuses on the measurement and utilisation of quantitative indicators in the urban and regional planning fields. There has been a resurgence of academic and policy interest in using indicators to inform planning, partly in response to the current government's information intensive approach ...

El tsunami urbanizador español y mundial

sobre sus causas y repercusiones devastadoras, y la necesidad de prepararse para el previsible estallido de la burbuja inmobiliaria

"El Estado español se ha convertido en el país europeo con mayor número de viviendas por mil habitantes, es líder europeo también en kms de autopistas y autovías, y pronto lo será también en líneas de alta velocidad ferroviaria; en España se encuentran también siete ...

The emerging digital economy

entrepreneurship, clusters, and policy

The technology dynamics of the digital age continue to impact where industries and firms locate and cluster geographically. Some of the impacts and structural patterns are consistent with the old or Fordist economic era; some are not. Thus, the contributions provide a balanced view of ...

Foreign direct investment and the regional economy

The 'boom' in foreign direct investment (FDI) since the mid-1980s, continues to be paramount in policy interest. This book reviews the literature on the nature of FDI and reports the recent results on the performance of FDI plants in order to show the implications for ...

Cities in a world economy

This Third Edition of the international bestselling textbook "Cities in a World Economy" presents sociologists with a continuing new perspective on the study of urban sociology. The decentralization and privatization of the world's economies has radically altered such things as the organization of labour ...

Social capital in the knowledge economy

theory and empirics

This book analyzes the social capital of the growing knowledge economy. The theoretical part discusses social capital as an economic concept, its relation to traditional capital theory and its role as a spatial externality. A theory of the social capital of the enterprise is developed ...

A companion to urban economics

Urban economics is a dynamic, constantly evolving subject, central to the study and practice of economics. "A Companion to Urban Economics" provides a state-of-the-art overview of this field, communicating its intellectual richness through a diverse portfolio of authors and topics. The text provides a set ...

Clusters and globalisation

the development of urban and regional economies

Clustering as an economic policy concern has become increasingly fashionable. The authors of this book shed light on this subject of which there remains remarkably little understanding, and even less agreement, regarding what clusters are, what they require for success and what impacts they are ...

Regional economic development

analysis and planning strategy

The second edition of this book is completely reedited making the book even more valuable for graduate students, reflecting recent advances and adding insightful new material. The book is about the analysis of regional economic performance and change, and how analysis integrates with strategies for ...

Los colores del escaparate

emprendedores inmigrados en Almería

El libro refleja un proceso de transformación urbana en Almería, con la proliferación de negocios regentados por inmigrantes. Esto se traduce en nuevas formas de gestión, distintas maneras de presentar los productos y rótulos en el escaparate, formas que dibujan un mosaico d¡colorista y ...

La cuestión urbana

Los problemas urbanos están de moda, tanto en los discursos oficiales, como en la experiencia cotidiana de la gente ¿se trata de una moda o de un problema real? y si es un problema real, ¿cuáles son sus raíces reales?;¿cuál su relación con las ...

Urban economics and real estate

theory and policy

Unique in its coverage, "Urban Economics and Real Estate" allows an instructor to teach separate courses in either urban economics or urban real estate, or a blend of the two topics. The portion on urban economics focuses on urban/suburban growth - physical as well as ...

Desarrollo rural sostenible

Geografías del desorden

migración, alteridad y nueva esfera social

Geografias de Desorden pretende ser un espacio de trabajo en el que sumar la contribución de autores que desde sus ámbitos de conocimiento e investigación analizan el fenómeno migratorio a través de las distintas ramas de estudio de la geografía humana así como desde otras ...

Contra los territorios del poder

por un espacio público de debates y... de combates

«El tratamiento dado a la "cuestión social", en tiempos de globalización, no aspira a resolver el problema del paro, de la pobreza y del "mal-vivir", sino únicamente a regular su no-solución.» Jean- Pierre Garnier El espacio o el territorio en sí mismo expresa siempre la ...

La movilidad y la eficiencia económica

especial aplicación a la ciudad de Madrid

Para el director del IEE, en un mundo globalizado como el actual "es necesario incrementar la oferta de los transportes, tanto públicos como privados, regular los aparcamientos mediante el cobro de una tasa por el uso del espacio urbano, así como limitando la duración del ...

House prices and the macroeconomy

implications for banking and price stability

House price bubbles, and their aftermath, have become a focus of macro- economic policy concern in most developed countries. This book elucidates the two-way relationship between house-price fluctuations and economic fundamentals. Housing has many features which make it distinct from other assets, like equity. Real ...

Planning cities for the future

the successes and failures of urban economic strategies in Europe

Peter Kresl brings unique and invaluable empirical evidence, from the early 1990s through to 2005, to examine the relationship between urban competitiveness and economic-strategic planning for ten internationally networked cities within the EU. "Planning Cities for the Future" links the study of urban economic competitiveness ...

Spatial inequality and development

Urban futures

economic growth and poverty reduction