Financing development

the power of regionalism

The historic 2002 United Nations Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico, overlooked a crucial question: regionalism. Financing Development: The Power of Regionalism is designed to correct this omission. Editors Nancy Birdsall and Liliana Rojas-Suarez call for a more open and radical regionalism. They ...

Empowering squatter citizen

local government, civil society and urban poverty reduction

With the rapid growth in urban poverty in Africa, Asia and Latin America, most cities now have 30 to 60 per cent of their population living in shanty towns. The civil and political rights of these people are either ignored or constantly contravened. They face ...

Nuevos sistemas de gestión y financiación de infraestructuras de transportes

Municipalities and finance

a sourcebook for capacity building

The state of the World's cities 2004/2005

globalization and urban culture

Metrópolis ingobernables

las ciudades europeas entre la globalización y la descentralización

Pouvoir économique et espace

analyses de la divergence régionale

The high cost of free parking

Free parking isn't really free. In fact, the average parking space costs more than the average car. Initially, developers pay for the required parking, but soon tenants do, and then their customers, and so on, until the cost of parking has diffused throughout the ...

The economics of staging the Olympics

a comparison of the Games 1972-2008

The Olympic Games is a unique event centering global interest on its host city. The financing of the Games has changed dramatically since Munich (1972) and economic interests and effects are increasingly paramount. It is therefore an anomaly that accurate economic analysis and comparison is ...

Recent developments in urban and regional economics

In this authoritative collection, Paul Cheshire and Gilles Duranton have brought together the most significant contributions to regional and urban economics since 1990. The volume presents papers on theoretical and empirical analyses of city structure and systems of cities. It places particular emphasis on the ...

Handbook of regional and urban economics

.Vol.4: Cities and geography

Planificación estratégica sostenible de redes territoriales

teoría y práctica

La situación de los territorios de carácter periférico requiere políticas especialmente diseñadas para lograr resultados sólidos, dadas las condiciones de la realidad económica y social actual. La planificación estratégica se ha ofrecido como un método particularmente adecuado para definir las pautas generales de tales actuaciones ...

Ordenación del territorio y desarrollo territorial

el gobierno del territorio en Europa: tradiciones, contextos, culturas y nuevas visiones

El nuevo contexto globalizado supone formidables desafíos para los territorios y sus gentes. Nada es igual que hace un cuarto de siglo. De las viejas «certezas» y «seguridades» hemos pasado a un brumoso inicio de milenio marcado por la incertidumbre y complejidad del presente. Los ...

Economics and land use planning

Mega-projects

the changing politics of urban public investment

Since the demise of urban renewal in the early 1970s, the politics of large-scale public investment in and around major American cities has received little scholarly attention. In Mega-Projects, Alan Altshuler and David Luberoff analyze the unprecedented wave of large-scale (mega-) public investments that occurred ...

Property rights, planning and markets

managing spontaneous cities

Economic geography and public policy

Research on the spatial aspects of economic activity has flourished over the past decade due to the emergence of new theory, new data, and an intense interest on the part of policymakers, especially in Europe but increasingly in North America and elsewhere as well. However ...

Regional convergence in the European Union

facts, prospects and policies

Local partnerships for rural development

the european experience

This volume of papers has been developed from a report of the cross- national Partnerships for Rural Integrated Development in Europe research project. The research focused on the public and private sector rural development experience in Finland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

Organizing for community controlled development

renewing civil society