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 ...

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 ...

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

Organizing for community controlled development

renewing civil society

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 ...

The globalized city

economic restructuring and social polarization in european cities

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 ...

Desaceleración económica 2002: perspectiva regional

(Revista Cuadernos de Información Económica, Nº173, 2003)

Efectos de la globalización en la región urbana de Madrid

Entrepreneurship and community economic developement

La economía regional en el marco de la nueva economía

Desarrollo rural en territorios insulares

especial referencia a las Islas Canarias

Analisi economica e metodo giuridico

i servizi pubblici locali

Oggi, i pubblici servizi non senbrano più un nome comune dato ad ambiti differenti studiati da scienze diverse, ma un comune campo di indagine nel quale categorie economiche e giuridiche sono così intrecciate da risultare inestricabilmente dipendenti. Qui disciplina pubblicistica e privatistica si intrecciano con ...

Valoración inmobiliaria

estudio y cálculo del valor de los bienes inmuebles de naturaleza urbana, y de determinados derechos

Este libro se consagra al estudio teórico y práctico de la valoración de todo tipo de bien inmueble de naturaleza urbana en los mercados primario y secundario (primera y sucesivas manos), ya se encuentren en construcción o terminados y su uso sea exclusivo o mixto ...