Author: Allen Pred
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780262160155
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Author: Allan Pred
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Press
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Author: Jeffrey S. Adler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521522359
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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How conflict sparked by the debate over the future of slavery remade the urban West.

Author: Richard Barras
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781444310016
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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The global economic crisis of 2008 was precipitated by a housing market crash, thus highlighting the destabilizing influence of the property cycle upon the wider economy. This timely book by a world authority explores why cycles occur and how they affect the behaviour of real estate markets. The central argument put forward is that growth and instability are inextricably linked, and that building investment acts both as a key driver of growth and as the source of the most volatile cyclical fluctuations in an economy. The role of building cycles in both economic growth and urban development is explored through a theoretical review and a comparative historical analysis of UK and US national data stretching back to the start of the nineteenth century, together with a case study of the development of London since the start of the eighteenth century. A simulation model of the building cycle is presented and tested using data for the City of London office market. The analysis is then broadened to examine the operation of property cycles in global investment markets during the post-war period, focussing on their contribution to the diffusion of innovation, the accumulation of wealth and the propagation of market instability. Building Cycles: growth & instability concludes by synthesizing the main themes into a theoretical framework, which can guide our understanding of the operation and impact of building cycles on the modern economy. Postgraduate students on courses in property and in urban development as well as professional property researchers, urban economists and planners will find this a stimulating read – demanding but accessible.

Author: Brian J. L. Berry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Author: Baleshwar Thakur
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Entropy (Information theory)
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Author: John R. Logan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520254287
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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"Twenty years after publication, Urban Fortunes remains the best book on urban sociology around. Starting from a political economy analysis, Logan and Molotch develop a picture of the formative processes creating the contemporary American city while managing to avoid the pitfalls of determinism."—Susan Fainstein, Harvard University

Author: John R. Short
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351684760
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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This book, first published in 1984, is an attempt to make students aware of the variety in the urban condition and to introduce them to some of the relationships operating between space and society. From the broad aim of seeking to show the relationship between urbanism and society flows a number of sub-themes, including the importance of cross-cultural comparisons and contrasts, re-distributional consequences and the role of government. This book will be of interest to first- and second-year students of urban studies and human geography.

Author: David Lane
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402096631
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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Innovation is nowadays a question of life and death for many of the economies of the western world. Yet, due to our generally reductionist scientific paradigm, invention and innovation are rarely studied scientifically. Most work prefers to study its context and its consequences. As a result, we are as a society, lacking the scientific tools to understand, improve or otherwise impact on the processes of invention and innovation. This book delves deeply into that topic, taking the position that the complex systems approach, with its emphasis on ‘emergence’, is better suited than our traditional approach to the phenomenon. In a collection of very coherent papers, which are the result of an EU-funded four year international research team’s effort, it addresses various aspect of the topic from different disciplinary angles. One of the main emphases is the need, in the social sciences, to move away from neo-darwinist ‘population thinking’ to ‘organization thinking’ if we want to understand social evolution. Another main emphasis is on developing a generative approach to invention and innovation, looking in detail at the contexts within which invention and innovation occur, and how these contexts impact on the chances for success or failure. Throughout, the book is infused with interesting new insights, but also presents several well-elaborated case studies that connect the ideas with a substantive body of ‘real world’ information.

Author: Neil L. Shumsky
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1135603618
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 453

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Volume 4 "THE ECONOMY’ of the American Cities; series. This collection brings together more than 200 scholarly articles pertaining to the history and development of urban life in the United States during the past two centuries. The selections in Volume 4 of the series concern the development of the urban economy since the early nineteenth century. Three groups of articles, each arranged chronologically, deal with three basic sectors of the economy—trade and commerce (especially retailing), manufacturing and industrialization, and finance. Individual articles address subjects as diverse as merchants and shopping malls, flour milling and scientific management, and the Chicago Board of Trade and redlining.