Sistemas de autobuses para el futuro

el logro de un transporte sostenible en el mundo

A tale of two global cities

comparing the territorialities of telecommunications developments in Paris and London

Since the mid-1980s, telecommunications and information technologies (IT) have become more intensely bound up than ever before in the social, economic, political and cultural processes and transformations which are increasingly concentrated in and between key strategic urban places across the globe. By analysing telecommunications developments ...

Multinational firms' location and the new economic geography

The choice of location for the production plants of multinational firms is an important issue, not least because this decision is accompanied by so many fears brought into public debate. This book analyses how foreign direct investors choose their locations, whilst exploring the forces which ...

La economía navarra en 2003

Nuevos sistemas de gestión y financiación de infraestructuras de transportes

Municipalities and finance

a sourcebook for capacity building

The new regional politics of development

A broad-ranging assessment of the various development strategies being pursued in the various major regions of the world written to a tight editorial remit by leading authorities on each region. Its aim is to map new patterns of development and inequality moving beyond outdated distinctions ...

Economics,planning and housing

This broad-ranging new text applies economics analysis to the aims, instruments and outcomes of land use planning and housing policies. The core focus is on providing students with a substantive and sophisticated understanding of the relation of the state and market and such key current ...

The state of the World's cities 2004/2005

globalization and urban culture

Pouvoir économique et espace

analyses de la divergence régionale

Turning the corner?

a reader in contemporary transport policy

This Reader provides a critical review of British transport policy since the Labour Government came into office in 1997 and looks at possible solutions to Britain#s ongoing transport problems. An authoritative reader providing a critical review of recent British transport policies. Looks at possible ...

Community economics

linking theory and practice

ÍNDICE: Defining Community Economic Development Growth Theory Spatial Theory Concepts of Community Markets Land Markets Labor Markets and Community Economic Development Financial Capital Markets Technology/Innovation and Community Economic Development Non-market Goods and Services: Amenities Local Government, Public Goods and Community Economics Institutions and Society ...

Sectoral systems of innovation

concepts, issues and analyses of six major sectors in Europe

Innovation and technological change show different rates, types and trajectories depending on the sector in which they take place. Agents and institutions of a sector all exert a major influence on innovation. With contributions from nineteen experts in their field, this book proposes the framework ...

Urban informality

transnational perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia

The turn of the century has been a moment of rapid urbanization. Much of this urban growth is taking place in the cities of the developing world and much of it in informal settlements. This book presents cutting-edge research from various world regions to demonstrate ...

The global city and the holy city

narratives on knowledge, planning and diversity

The Global City & the Holy City explores the local embodied knowledge of women and men of different national, cultural and ethnic identities and age groups, living in London and Jerusalem. Their narratives focus on the three main concepts of Comfort, Belonging and Commitment to the ...

La emergencia de las nuevas ciudades en la Era Global

¿Cuál es la lógica del crecimiento de las ciudaddes en unas circunstancias de globalización económica y cultural?

Gobierno y gestión de las ciudades:una visión desde las dos orillas del Atlántico

IX Seminario sobre Gestión Pública Social

Los gobiernos locales en España tendrán que afrontar en los próximo años imporantes retos derivados de los cambios legales que se están produciendo, de las crecientes exigencias sociales en cuanto a eficiencia y calidad en los servicios públicos, y de la necesidad de incorporar las ...

Los nuevos principios de urbanismo

el fin de las ciudades no está a la orden del día

¿Qué hacer hoy con la noción de límite y cómo concebir los espacios cuando la distinción entre ciudad y cambio, entre público y privado, entre interior y exterior desaparece? ¿Qué ocurre con las nociones de distancia, continuidad, densidad, diversidad, hibridez, cuando la velocidad del desplazamiento ...

Local industrial clusters

existence, emergence, and evolution

The key approach taken in this book is that all local economic clusters have something in common -specific case-studies are thus put into wider perspective in a masterly study that will be of keen interest to both econimsts and geographers.

Los principales instrumentos de financiación procedentes del urbanismo

(aspectos jurídicos y económicos)

Obra que conjuga dos de las materias de mayor repercusión en el mundo local, la urbanística y la económica, a través del estudio jurídico y económico de los distintos aspectos que rodean los principales instrumentos actuales de financiación municipal del urbanismo. En primer lugar, parte ...