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A companion to urban economics / / edited by Richard J. Arnott, Daniel P. McMillen
| A companion to urban economics / / edited by Richard J. Arnott, Daniel P. McMillen |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, Massachusetts : , : Blackwell Publishing, , 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (604 p.) |
| Disciplina | 330.9173/2 |
| Collana |
Blackwell Companions to Contemporary Economics
THEi Wiley ebooks |
| Soggetto topico | Urban economics |
| ISBN |
1-78268-501-4
1-280-85087-6 9786610850877 1-4051-6416-6 0-470-99622-6 1-4051-7835-3 |
| Classificazione | QY 300 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
A Companion to Urban Economics; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Preface; PART I URBANIZATION; 1 The Micro-Empirics of Agglomeration Economies; 2 Human Capital Externalities in Cities: Identification and Policy Issues; 3 The First Cities; 4 Cross-Country Patterns of Urban Development; PART II URBAN LAND USE; 5 The Spatial Pattern of Land Use in the United States; 6 Monocentric Cities; 7 Space in General Equilibrium; 8 Testing for Monocentricity; PART III HOUSING AND REAL ESTATE; 9 The Economic Theory of Housing Tenure Choice
10 Housing Policy:Low- Income Households in France11 Housing Demand: An International Perspective; 12 Discrimination in Mortgage Lending; 13 Commercial Real Estate; 14 Housing Price Indexes; PART IV URBAN TRANSPORTATION; 15 Urban Transport Economic Theory; 16 Urban Passenger Travel Demand; 17 Urban Transportation and Land Use; 18 Urban Transport Policies:The Dutch Struggle with Market Failures and Policy Failures; PART V URBAN PUBLIC ECONOMICS; 19 Financing Cities; 20 Strategic Interaction among Governments; 21 Property and Land Taxation 22 A Theory of Municipal Corporate Governance with an Application to Land- Use RegulationPART VI URBAN LABOR MARKETS AND MACROECONOMICS; 23 Urban Labor Markets; 24 A Primer on Spatial Mismatch within Urban Labor Markets; 25 Urban Labor Economic Theory; 26 Macroeconomic Analysis Using Regional Data:An Application to Monetary Policy; 27 Measuring and Analyzing Urban Employment Fluctuations; PART VII QUALITY OF LIFE; 28 Measuring Quality of Life; 29 Air Pollution in Cities; 30 Urban Crime,Race, and the Criminal Justice System in the United States; 31 Ethnic Segregation and Ghettos; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996211216903316 |
| Malden, Massachusetts : , : Blackwell Publishing, , 2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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A companion to urban economics / / edited by Richard J. Arnott, Daniel P. McMillen
| A companion to urban economics / / edited by Richard J. Arnott, Daniel P. McMillen |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, Massachusetts : , : Blackwell Publishing, , 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (604 p.) |
| Disciplina | 330.9173/2 |
| Collana |
Blackwell Companions to Contemporary Economics
THEi Wiley ebooks |
| Soggetto topico | Urban economics |
| ISBN |
1-78268-501-4
1-280-85087-6 9786610850877 1-4051-6416-6 0-470-99622-6 1-4051-7835-3 |
| Classificazione | QY 300 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
A Companion to Urban Economics; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Preface; PART I URBANIZATION; 1 The Micro-Empirics of Agglomeration Economies; 2 Human Capital Externalities in Cities: Identification and Policy Issues; 3 The First Cities; 4 Cross-Country Patterns of Urban Development; PART II URBAN LAND USE; 5 The Spatial Pattern of Land Use in the United States; 6 Monocentric Cities; 7 Space in General Equilibrium; 8 Testing for Monocentricity; PART III HOUSING AND REAL ESTATE; 9 The Economic Theory of Housing Tenure Choice
10 Housing Policy:Low- Income Households in France11 Housing Demand: An International Perspective; 12 Discrimination in Mortgage Lending; 13 Commercial Real Estate; 14 Housing Price Indexes; PART IV URBAN TRANSPORTATION; 15 Urban Transport Economic Theory; 16 Urban Passenger Travel Demand; 17 Urban Transportation and Land Use; 18 Urban Transport Policies:The Dutch Struggle with Market Failures and Policy Failures; PART V URBAN PUBLIC ECONOMICS; 19 Financing Cities; 20 Strategic Interaction among Governments; 21 Property and Land Taxation 22 A Theory of Municipal Corporate Governance with an Application to Land- Use RegulationPART VI URBAN LABOR MARKETS AND MACROECONOMICS; 23 Urban Labor Markets; 24 A Primer on Spatial Mismatch within Urban Labor Markets; 25 Urban Labor Economic Theory; 26 Macroeconomic Analysis Using Regional Data:An Application to Monetary Policy; 27 Measuring and Analyzing Urban Employment Fluctuations; PART VII QUALITY OF LIFE; 28 Measuring Quality of Life; 29 Air Pollution in Cities; 30 Urban Crime,Race, and the Criminal Justice System in the United States; 31 Ethnic Segregation and Ghettos; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910143288003321 |
| Malden, Massachusetts : , : Blackwell Publishing, , 2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Sustainable Community Development: Dilemma of Options in Kenya [[electronic resource] /] / by Fuchaka Waswa, Christine Ruth Saru Kilalo, Dominic Mwambi Mwasaru
| Sustainable Community Development: Dilemma of Options in Kenya [[electronic resource] /] / by Fuchaka Waswa, Christine Ruth Saru Kilalo, Dominic Mwambi Mwasaru |
| Autore | Waswa Fuchaka |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (183 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 307.14096762 |
| Collana | Palgrave Pivot |
| Soggetto topico |
Africa-History
Ethnology-Africa Sociology, Urban History, Modern African History African Culture Sociology, general Urban Studies/Sociology Modern History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-349-50508-0
1-137-49741-6 |
| Classificazione | QY 300 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 Africa's development irony -- 1.3 Poverty: from an international to a local understanding -- 1.4 Reflection questions -- 2 Development Approaches and Competing Paradigms -- 2.1 Historical perspective of main development paradigms -- 2.2 Development paradigms in the context of Kenyan history -- 2.3 Competing development approaches in Kenya -- 2.4 Participatory approach and people-centred development -- 2.5 Competing paradigms of social change -- 2.6 A social movement as the way forward -- 2.7 Reflection questions -- 3 Entry Points for Sustainable Community Development -- 3.1 Characterization of a sustainable community -- 3.2 Community institutional and leadership development -- 3.3 Community assets and resource mobilization -- 3.4 Community-Based Health Care (CBHC) -- 3.5 Emerging issues in CBHC -- 3.6 Gender and CBHC -- 3.7 Community food security and sustainable agriculture -- 3.8 Dealing with water scarcity in dryland ecosystems -- 3.9 Alternative income generation -- 3.10 Environmental dimension to community development -- 3.11 Reflection questions -- 4 Roles of Strategic Stakeholders -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Initiating and working through partnerships -- 4.3 Phasing-in and phasing-out -- 4.4 Reflection questions -- 5 Creating an Enabling Environment -- 5.1 Governance -- 5.2 Characteristics of good governance -- 5.3 The change formula -- 5.4 Reflection questions -- 6 Back to the Basics -- 6.1 Dilemma of options for community development -- 6.2 Learning from the "poor" -- 6.3 Reflection questions -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910672475203321 |
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| New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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