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Cities, Agglomeration, and Spatial Equilibrium by Edward L. Glaeser 9780199290444
RRP: £78.00£77.43220 million Americans crowd together in the 3% of the country that is urban. 35 million people live in the vast metropolis of Tokyo, the most productive urban area in the world. The central city of Mumbai alone has 12 million people, and Shanghai almost... -
The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida
RRP: £17.99£12.71In his modern classic The Rise of the Creative Class, urbanist Richard Florida identifies the emergence of a new social class that is reshaping the twenty-first century's economy, geography, and workplace. This Creative Class is made up of... -
The Evolution of Great World Cities: Urban Wealth and Economic Growth by Christopher Kennedy 9781442611528
RRP: £27.99£24.14Some cities seem destined to become major financial capitals, yet never do-Seville, for instance, was the centre of Spain's opulent New World Empire, but failed to become a financial metropolis. Others, like former colonial backwater Hong Kong, defy the... -
Cities in Global Capitalism by Ugo Rossi 9780745689678
RRP: £15.99£14.41In what ways are cities central to the evolution of contemporary global capitalism? And in what ways is global capitalism forged by the urban experience? This book provides a response to these questions, exploring the multifaceted dimensions of the... -
Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life by Jane Jacobs 9780394729114
RRP: £14.99£10.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394729114Author Jane JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 181mm... -
Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure by Andy Pike
RRP: £33.95£30.83Infrastructure systems provide the services we all rely upon for our day-to-day lives. Through new conceptual work and fresh empirical analysis, this book investigates how financialisation engages with city governance and infrastructure provision,... -
Urban Economy: Real Estate Economics and Public Policy by Colin Jones
RRP: £49.99£43.50Urban Economy: Real Estate Economics and Public Policy analyses urban economic change and public policy in a more practical way than a typical urban economics book. The book has a distinctive framework that considers the underlying reasons, and the... -
Empirical Regional Economics: Economic Base Theory, Models and Applications by Richard S. Conway Jr.
RRP: £79.99£75.11This textbook offers an introduction to empirical regional economics, including a comprehensive and systematic overview of the fundamentals, history, development, and applications of economic base models. It not only provides a sound basis for regional... -
Harvard Square: A Love Story by Catherine J. Turco 9780231209281
RRP: £22.00£16.83"Harvard Square isn't what it used to be." Spend any time there, and you're bound to hear that lament. Yet people have been saying the very same thing for well over a century. So what does it really mean that Harvard Square-or any other beloved Main... -
Advanced Introduction to Regional Innovation Systems by Bjorn T. Asheim
RRP: £17.95£16.46Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of... -
The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City - New Edition by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett 9780691138749
£42.05Which is more important to New York City's economy, the gleaming corporate office--or the grungy rock club that launches the best new bands? If you said "office," think again. In The Warhol Economy, Elizabeth Currid argues that creative industries like... -
Integrated Water Environment Treatment: Mountainous Sponge City and Three Gorges Reservoir Region by Xiaoling Lei
RRP: £39.99£35.06With the rapid development of Chinese urbanization in the 21st century, "urban diseases" become more serious, mainly manifested in water environmental pollution, urban flooding, water shortage, and deterioration of water ecology. It is necessary to... -
Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy by Bruce Katz
RRP: £17.99£15.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815726593Author Bruce KatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 233mm... -
Innovation Districts: a Toolkit for Urban Leaders by Arnault Morisson 9781515340621
RRP: £12.99£11.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515340621Author Arnault MorissonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
The Foundations of Complex Evolving Economies: Part One: Innovation, Organization, and Industrial Dynamics by Giovanni Dosi 9780192866042
£36.26The Foundations of Complex Evolving Economies seeks to offer an integrated analysis of the anatomy and physiology of the capitalist engine of generation and exploitation of technological organizational and institutional innovations - from the drivers of... -
The Handbook of Evolutionary Economic Geography by Ron Boschma 9781849804134
RRP: £53.95£50.32This wide-ranging Handbook is the first major compilation of the theoretical and empirical research that is forging the new and exciting paradigm of evolutionary economic geography. The book's distinguished contributors set out the theoretical,... -
Multinationals and Economic Geography: Location, Technology and Innovation by Simona Iammarino 9781781954874
RRP: £53.95£48.59After more than fifty years of systematic research on multinational enterprises (MNEs) what is apparent is that there is, as yet, no unified or dominant theory of the MNE. The objective of this book is to bring into focus one particular dimension of MNE... -
Devolution and the UK Economy by David Bailey 9781783486311
RRP: £52.00£45.47The Scottish Referendum in September 2014 had significant and far-reaching consequences for the political settlement of the United Kingdom. The pressure for more fiscal devolution and other economic powers in the devolved nations has increased demands... -
The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy by Bruce Katz 9780815721512
RRP: £30.00£26.68Across the US, cities and metropolitan areas are facing huge economic and competitive challenges that Washington won't, or can't, solve. The good news is that networks of metropolitan leaders - mayors, business and labor leaders, educators, and... -
The Industrial Policy Revolution I: The Role of Government Beyond Ideology by Justin Lin Yifu 9781137374523
RRP: £89.99£81.41This volume is the result of the 2012 International Economic Association's series of roundtables on the theme of Industrial Policy. The first, 'New Thinking on Industrial Policy,' was hosted by the World Bank in Washington, D.C, and the second, 'New... -
The new Co-operative Town of Elizabethton .. by Co-Operative Town Company of Tennessee 9781021394521
£10.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Roslindale Square Revitalization Study, Boston (Roslindale) Massachusetts by Roslindale Association for Community 9781021492609
RRP: £11.95£10.92Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Commerce and Employment in Chinatown by San Francisco (Calif ) Dept of City 9781019946695
RRP: £22.95£20.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781019946695Author San Francisco (Calif ) Dept of CityFormat HardbackPage Count 28Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 222g -
Tense Commandments: Federal Prescriptions and City Problems by Pietro S. Nivola 9780815760948
£21.30During the past decade, dozens of large cities lost population as jobs and people kept moving to the suburbs. Despite widespread urban revitalization and renewal, one fact remains unmistakable: when choosing where to live and work, Americans prefer the... -
Social Costs of Transformation to a Market Economy in Post-Socialist Countries: The Case of Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary by J. Adam 9780312221607
RRP: £89.99£89.87This book deals primarily with social costs of transformation to a market economy in Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary. The transformation provisions have negatively affected the well-being of the population. They brought about unemployment, a... -
Models of Intraurban Residential Relocation by F. W. Porrell 9780898380897
RRP: £89.99£89.87Most of the research incorporated in this monograph was initially undertaken as part of the author's Ph.D. dissertation submitted to the School of Urban and Public Affairs, Carnegie-Mellon University. The research was funded through a Doctoral... -
Vietnam's Reforms and Economic Growth by Charles Harvie 9780333689486
RRP: £89.99£89.87Vietnam's bold economic reforms initiated under the title of Doi Moi in 1986 have produced spectacular economic outcomes which have fascinated economists, business people, commerce students, political scientists and government advisors alike worldwide... -
Spatial inequalities and regional development by H. Folmer 9780898380064
RRP: £89.99£89.87In September 1977 a 'Regional Science Symposium' was held at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Organized because of the recent establishment at the Faculty of Economics of a group that is engaged in teaching and... -
China's Economic Growth: The Impact on Regions, Migration and the Environment by Terry Cannon 9780333716595
£90.27Economic reforms in China began in 1979 and initiated some of the most fundamental changes ever to occur in any country. While allowing some of the most astonishing economic growth the world has seen, they have also induced some of the most profound... -
Can South and Southern Africa become Globally Competitive Economies? by Gavin Maasdorp 9780333653883
RRP: £24.50£24.29Sub-Saharan Africa is the only region in the world where the population is worse off today than it was 20 years ago. Thus, global interest has shifted away from Africa, and Africa is referred to as the 'marginalised continent'. But is this decline... -
The Causes and Impact of the Asian Financial Crisis by C. Harvie 9780333740767
RRP: £44.99£44.97As witness to one of the world's great crises in recent times, academics and students, business people, national and international government analysts, policy makers and political leaders worldwide have been pre-occupied by an effort to adequately... -
The Political Economy of Foreign Policy in Southeast Asia by David Wurfel 9780333467886
£90.27This is the first book in several years to review the foreign policies of major Southeast Asian states and the first ever to include those frequently neglected smaller states. It is also unique in the editors' adherence to a new comparative framework... -
The Structure of the Japanese Economy: Changes on the Domestic and International Fronts by Mitsuaki Okabe 9780333617731
£90.27This book illuminates the characteristics of the Japanese economy comprehensively and analyses how and why they have been changing. The contributors to this fifteen-paper volume are internationally-known and leading researchers of the Japanese economy... -
The Contemporary Japanese Economy by Yutaka Kosai 9780333361825
RRP: £89.99£89.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333361825Author Yutaka KosaiFormat HardbackPage Count 134Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 339g -
Soviet Marketing and Economic Development by Roger Skurski 9780333277645
RRP: £89.99£89.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333277645Author Roger SkurskiFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 412g -
Institutions, Human Development and Economic Growth in Transition Economies by Pasquale Tridico 9780230240681
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book analyses the development path of transition economies in European Countries and former Soviet Republics that have experienced the transformation from planned economies to market economies since the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. It examines... -
Regionalization and Labour Market Interdependence in East and Southeast Asia by Duncan Campbell 9780312177034
RRP: £89.99£89.87How can we account for the dynamic growth of East and Southeast Asian countries? Much of the debate has turned on the question of the 'state' versus the 'market' as exclusive (and often competing) explanations of the successful performance of individual... -
The Dynamics of Social Change in Latin America by Henry Veltmeyer 9780312222772
RRP: £89.99£89.87This study examines fundamental theoretical and conceptual issues of social change in Latin America in the context of detailed empirical analysis. It challenges the major assumptions and propositions that underlie globalization theory, reworking and fine... -
Authority and Welfare in China: Modern Debates in Historical Perspective by Michael Twohey 9780312217464
RRP: £89.99£89.87This book describes the relationship between political authoritarianism and people's welfare in modern China. Based on a study of Chinese political discourse from the 1898 reform period to the present, the book demonstrates that support for authoritarian... -
Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty First Century: Towards a Renewed Perspective on the City by Dennis Rodgers 9780230371545
RRP: £44.99£44.97By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas. This volume explores the implications of this unprecedented expansion in the world's most urbanized region, Latin America, exploring the new urban...