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 ...

Property rights, planning and markets

managing spontaneous cities

Regional convergence in the European Union

facts, prospects and policies

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Organizing for community controlled development

renewing civil society

The globalized city

economic restructuring and social polarization in european cities