Housing and welfare in Southern Europe

Chapter One: IntroductionThe Scope of this bookStructure of the bookSupplementary bibliography Chapter Two - Are southern housing systems different? IntroductionTenure patterns in southern EuropeCountries of homeownersOne home in two houses: high proportion of secondary homesHousing access, family cycles and residential mobilityProduction and promotion of housingConclusions Chapter ...

Cities and sociology

This distinctive anthology contains classic and first-rate contemporary writings that have had a major impact on the field of urban studies. The expert and well-known scholars who have written these essays cover central topics that have evolved over the past 25 years. Brings together 20 ...

Exploring sustainable development

geographical perspectives

Sustainable development is capturing the attention of planners, politicians and business leaders. Within the academic sphere its study is increasingly breaching disciplinary boundaries to become a focus of attention for natural and social scientists alike. But in studying such a key concept, it is vital ...

World cities beyond the west

globalization, development and inequality

Josef Gugler brings together leading authorities from four continents to provide the first dedicated study of major cities in countries outside the industrialized West: Bangkok, Mumbai, Cairo, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Mexico City, Moscow, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai and Singapore. Fourteen contributors from diverse backgrounds ...

Urban governance voice and poverty in the developing world

Poverty and governance are both issues high on the agenda of international agencies and governments in the South. With urban areas accounting for a steadily growing share of the world#s poor people, an international team of researchers focused their attention on the hitherto little-studied ...

Geografía de los transportes

El presente libro pretende ofrecer,desde una perspectiva multidisciplinar propia del siglo XXI,una muestra de la diversidad de enfoques,métodos de análisis y temáticas existentes en el seno de la Geografía de los Transportes,al propio tiempo que plantea cuáles son los retos actuales ...

Las cooperativas agrarias

instrumento de desarrollo local

Las cooperativas agrarias son estructuras asociativas dotadas de una amplia base social, y que se caracterizan por ser importantes agentes generadores de actividad capaces de contribuir decisivamente al desarrollo sostenible de numerosas zonas rurales, tanto desde la perspectiva económica como social y medioambiental. Su génesis ...

Market economy and urban change

impacts in the developing world

Across the developing world the preceding decade or so has witnessed a profound reconfiguration of the political economy of urban policy. This new policy environment is driven by globalization, the neo-liberal macro-economic package of #market enablement# and structural adjustment, which now form the dominant development ...

Industrial districts

a new approach to industrial change

This remarkable book outlines the historical framework and the main concepts of the literature on industrial districts. It illustrates a new approach to the study of industrial development, based on well-known industrial districts analysis. Giacomo Becattini has written an authoritative volume which, starting with the ...

Regional economies as knowledge laboratories

Today, the study of regions is central to academic analysis and policy deliberation on how to respond to the rise of the knowledge economy. Regional Economies as Knowledge Laboratories illustrates how newer types of regional analysis # utilising scientometrics, knowledge services measures and university networks, and ...

Globalization and the location of firms

This authoritative collection reprints the key articles in the field of locational clustering, and the relationship between local clusters and the activities of multinational firms. It covers both the principal theoretical and statistical explanations of the clustering of firms in common locations, and includes a ...

La burbuja inmobiliaria

cómo saber si comprar o vender ahora

Por primera vez un libro trata claramente la burbuja inmobiliaria, sus causas y los efectos que podría tener en las familias y el futuro económico de España. Las 392 opiniones sobre la burbuja inmobiliaria recogidas en este libro han sido seleccionadas entre más de 36 ...

New state spaces

urban governance and the rescaling of statehood

Neil Brenner has in the past few years made a major impact on the ways in which we understand the changing political geographies of the modern state. Simultaneously analyzing the restructuring of urban governance and the transformation of national states under globalizing capitalism, 'New State ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...