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Urban Economics: A Global Perspective
ISBN: 9780333771280 / Angielski / Miękka / 539 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18 dni roboczych. The purpose of this book is to provide a key text on urban economics in a global context. The book is driven by the themes of urban economics - urban growth, housing, property investment and development, etc. - and the different approaches to these themes taken in different regions of the world are introduced and exemplified in boxes within each chapter.
The purpose of this book is to provide a key text on urban economics in a global context. The book is driven by the themes of urban economics - urban ...
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294,25 zł |
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Bangkok: Place, Practice and Representation
ISBN: 9780415188548 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18 dni roboczych. Bangkok is one of Asia's most interesting, varied, controversial and challenging cities. It is a city of contradictions, both in its present and its past. This volume examines the development of the city from its earliest days as the seat of the Thai monarchy to its current position as an infamous contemporary metropolis. This in-depth study of each of the city's many facets adopts insights from the cultural history, urban studies and human geography. Marc Askew examines the city's variety, from inner-city slums to be rural-urban fringe and gives us a keen insight into the daily life if the...
Bangkok is one of Asia's most interesting, varied, controversial and challenging cities. It is a city of contradictions, both in its present and its p...
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215,03 zł |
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Strategic Planning for Regional Development in the UK: A Review of Principles and Practices
ISBN: 9780415349383 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18 dni roboczych. The book brings together, in a single source, a coherent set of quality writings in the field of strategic regional planning. It aims to fulfill a need generated by a renewed emphasis in the UK on strategic regional planning enshrined in new style spatial strategies through recent legislation, including the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill (soon to become an Act). This legislation places upon regional bodies demands that they are currently poorly equipped to fulfill through lack of personnel experienced and trained in planning at this scale.
In five parts the book looks at the... The book brings together, in a single source, a coherent set of quality writings in the field of strategic regional planning. It aims to fulfill a nee...
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234,95 zł |
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Cities and the Creative Class
ISBN: 9780415948869 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18 dni roboczych. In his compelling follow-up to The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida outlines how certain cities succeed in attracting members of the 'creative class' - the millions of people who work in information-age economic sectors and in industries driven by innovation and talent.
In his compelling follow-up to The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida outlines how certain cities succeed in attracting mem...
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623,24 zł |
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Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics: Regional Economics
ISBN: 9780444879691 / Angielski / Twarda / 702 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This first volume of the Handbook serves as a definitive reference source and teaching supplement for the field of regional economics, and for related fields such as geography, transportation economics, regional science and physical planning. It provides an advanced state-of-the-art survey for professional teachers, researchers and advanced (post-) graduate students in these disciplines. In addition to a representative survey of past developments, it also points to new directions and trends within the field. For more information on the Handbooks in Economics series, please see our home page...
This first volume of the Handbook serves as a definitive reference source and teaching supplement for the field of regional economics, and for related...
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269,27 zł |
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Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics: Volume 2: Urban Economics
ISBN: 9780444879707 / Angielski / Twarda / 1322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This second volume of the Handbook presents professional surveys of all the important topics in urban economics. The first section contains 6 surveys on locational analysis, the second, 5 surveys of specific urban markets, and the third part presents 5 surveys of government policy issues. The book brings together exhaustive research by distinguished scholars from many countries. It is the only complete survey volume of urban economics and should serve as a reference volume to scholars and graduate students for many years. For more information on the Handbooks in Economics series, please see...
This second volume of the Handbook presents professional surveys of all the important topics in urban economics. The first section contains 6 surveys ...
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269,27 zł |
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Governing from Below: Urban Regions and the Global Economy
ISBN: 9780521657075 / Angielski / Miękka / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Cities play a growing role in governing. This new role fits within a context that nation-states, global market forces and cities themselves continue to define. The analysis of this book focuses on how local efforts in the distinct European systems of France and Germany as well as American counterparts have provided for environmental quality and social inclusion alongside local economic development. Only in certain European settings has policy making at multiple levels accomplished all three objectives at once. In those settings, effective governance from below has relied on adequate support...
Cities play a growing role in governing. This new role fits within a context that nation-states, global market forces and cities themselves continue t...
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178,55 zł |
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Post-Industrial East Asian Cities: Innovation for Growth
ISBN: 9780804756723 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Throughout East Asia, the growth process and its sources are changing in a number of important respects, especially for middle- and high-income economies. Growth is increasingly coming from the strength of innovative activities in these economies rather than from factor accumulation as in the past. Such innovative activities--especially in producer services and the creative industries--are concentrated in high-tech clusters in globally linked cities. Drawing on a wide range of literature and on interviews with firms, this book explores these issues with a focus on six East Asian cities:...
Throughout East Asia, the growth process and its sources are changing in a number of important respects, especially for middle- and high-income econom...
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596,38 zł |
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The Economies of Central City Neighborhoods
ISBN: 9780813397719 / Angielski / Miękka / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18 dni roboczych. In The Economies of Central City Neighborhoods Bingham and Zhang examine the location of industry employment in a variety of producer and consumer-oriented industries in relation to major neighborhood characteristics such as demographic, labor force, socioeconomic, and housing variables. While the primacy of poverty is an aspect of central city neighborhoods that drives the growth and decline of neighborhood economies, it implies the significance of effective intervention at early stages of neighborhood economic disintegration. Neighborhood cluster of industries suggests a direction of...
In The Economies of Central City Neighborhoods Bingham and Zhang examine the location of industry employment in a variety of producer and consu...
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190,14 zł |
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Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs: 2000
ISBN: 9780815730750 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This volume is part of an annual series featuring research on urban policy. Of the six papers in this volume, the first three assess the state of urban research and policy, whilst the others address important aspects of the urban economy: education, racial segregation and federal housing policies.
This volume is part of an annual series featuring research on urban policy. Of the six papers in this volume, the first three assess the state of urba...
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163,21 zł |
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Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment
ISBN: 9780815748151 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. What is a green city? What does it mean to say that San Francisco or Vancouver is more " green" than Houston or Beijing? When does urban growth lower environmental quality, and when does it yield environmental gains? How can cities deal with the environmental challenges posed by growth? These are the questions Matthew Kahn takes on in this smart and engaging book. Written in a lively, accessible style, Green Cities takes the reader on a tour of the extensive economic literature on the environmental consequences of urban growth. Kahn starts with an exploration of the Environmental...
What is a green city? What does it mean to say that San Francisco or Vancouver is more " green" than Houston or Beijing? When does urban growth lower ...
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103,23 zł |
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Building Assets, Building Credit: Creating Wealth in Low-Income Communities
ISBN: 9780815774099 / Angielski / Miękka / 395 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Poor people spend their money living day to day. How can they accumulate wealth? In the United States, homeownership is often the answer. Homes not only provide shelter but also are assets, and thus a means to create equity. Mortgage credit becomes a crucial factor. More Americans than ever now have some access to credit. However. thanks in large part to the growth of global capital markets and greater use of "credit scores," not all homeowners have benefited equally from the opened spigots. Different terms and conditions mean that some applicants are overpaying for mortgage credit, while... Poor people spend their money living day to day. How can they accumulate wealth? In the United States, homeownership is often the answer. Homes not... |
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145,14 zł |
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Postindustrial East Asian Cities: Innovation for Growth
ISBN: 9780821356227 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Throughout East Asia, the growth process and its sources are changing in a number of important respects, especially for middle- and high-income economies. Grwoth is increasingly coming from the strength of innovative activities in these economies rather than from factor accumulation as in the past. Such innovative activities are concentrated in high-tech clusters in globally linked cities. Drawing on a wide range of literature and on interviews of firms, this book explores these issues with a focus on six East Asian cities: Bangkok, Beijing, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, and Tokyo. It suggests...
Throughout East Asia, the growth process and its sources are changing in a number of important respects, especially for middle- and high-income econom...
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134,66 zł |
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A Companion to Urban Economics
ISBN: 9781405106290 / Angielski / Twarda / 574 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-12 dni roboczych. A Companion to Urban Economics provides a state-of-the-art overview of this field, communicating its intellectual richness through a diverse portfolio of authors and topics.
A Companion to Urban Economics provides a state-of-the-art overview of this field, communicating its intellectual richness through a diverse po...
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736,68 zł |
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Sustainability Assessment: Criteria, Processes and Applications
ISBN: 9781844070510 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18 dni roboczych. Sustainability assessment is now emerging as a more transparent, comprehensive, integrated and far-sighted approach to decision making. Its basic demand is that all significant undertakings must make a positive contribution to sustainability. To apply this test, decision makers need criteria based on the core requirements of sustainability and the particularities of the context. As well, they need appropriately designed public processes; guidance on the weighing of alternatives, trade-offs and compromises; a supportive policy framework; suitable tools and inspiring examples. Drawing from...
Sustainability assessment is now emerging as a more transparent, comprehensive, integrated and far-sighted approach to decision making. Its basic dema...
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170,24 zł |
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The Nebi Yearbook 2003: North European and Baltic Sea Integration
ISBN: 9783540404194 / Angielski / Twarda / 498 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18 dni roboczych. Bjllrn Tore Godal Norwegian Ambassador to Germany Chairman of the Editorial Advisory Board Several of the contributions to the present volume of The NEBI Yearbook have been inspired by the fact that roughly speaking, ten years have passed since the first steps were taken to initiate cross-border co-operation in the Barents and Baltic Sea areas. One of the most important co-operative organisations in the European Northeast, i. e. The Council of the Baltic Sea States, was launched in 1992. The Barents Euro Arctic Council was established in 1993. An avalanche of co-operative and cross-border...
Bjllrn Tore Godal Norwegian Ambassador to Germany Chairman of the Editorial Advisory Board Several of the contributions to the present volume of The N...
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524,75 zł |
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Technology, Innovation, and Southern Industrialization: From the Antebellum Era to the Computer Age
ISBN: 9780826217950 / Angielski / Miękka / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Because of its strong agrarian roots, the South has typically been viewed as a region not favorably disposed to innovation and technology. Yet innovation was never absent from industrialization in this part of the United States. From the early nineteenth century onward, southerners were as eager as other Americans to embrace technology as a path to modernity. This volume features seven essays that range widely across the region and its history, from the antebellum era to the present, to assess the role of innovations presumed lacking by most historians. Offering a challenging... Because of its strong agrarian roots, the South has typically been viewed as a region not favorably disposed to innovation and technology. Y... |
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202,78 zł |
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Heat Islands: Understanding and Mitigating Heat in Urban Areas
ISBN: 9781844072507 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18 dni roboczych. Heat islands are urban and suburban areas that are significantly warmer than their surroundings. Traditional, highly absorptive construction materials and a lack of effective landscaping are their main causes. Heat island problems, in terms of increased energy consumption, reduced air quality and effects on human health and mortality, are becoming more pressing as cities continue to grow and sprawl. This comprehensive book brings together the latest information about heat islands and their mitigation. The book describes how heat islands are formed, what problems they cause, which technologies...
Heat islands are urban and suburban areas that are significantly warmer than their surroundings. Traditional, highly absorptive construction materials...
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498,80 zł |
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Knowledge-Based Urban Development: Planning and Applications in the Information Era
ISBN: 9781599047201 / Angielski / Twarda / 337 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In the globalizing world, knowledge and information (and the social and technological settings for their production and communication) are now seen as keys to economic prosperity. The economy of a knowledge city creates value-added products using research, technology, and brainpower. The social benefit of knowledge-based urban development (KBUD); however, extends beyond aggregate economic growth. Knowledge-Based Urban Development: Planning and Applications in the Information Era covers the theoretical, thematic, and country-specific issues of knowledge cities to underline the growing...
In the globalizing world, knowledge and information (and the social and technological settings for their production and communication) are now seen as...
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891,77 zł |
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Creative Urban Regions: Harnessing Urban Technologies to Support Knowledge City Initiatives
ISBN: 9781599048383 / Angielski / Twarda / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In a knowledge economy urban form and functions are primarily shaped by global market forces rather than urban planning. As the role of knowledge in wealth creation becomes a critical issue in cities, urban administrations and planners need to discover new approaches to harness the considerable opportunities of abstract production for a global order. Creative Urban Regions: Harnessing Urban Technologies to Support Knowledge City Initiatives explores the utilization of urban technology to support knowledge city initiatives, providing scholars and practitioners with essential fundamental...
In a knowledge economy urban form and functions are primarily shaped by global market forces rather than urban planning. As the role of knowledge in w...
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891,77 zł |
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