Forces Shaping Urban Development
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Author | : Michael Storper |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2013-07-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1400846269 |
Why do some cities grow economically while others decline? Why do some show sustained economic performance while others cycle up and down? In Keys to the City, Michael Storper, one of the world's leading economic geographers, looks at why we should consider economic development issues within a regional context--at the level of the city-region--and why city economies develop unequally. Storper identifies four contexts that shape urban economic development: economic, institutional, innovational and interactional, and political. The book explores how these contexts operate and how they interact, leading to developmental success in some regions and failure in others. Demonstrating that the global economy is increasingly driven by its major cities, the keys to the city are the keys to global development. In his conclusion, Storper specifies eight rules of economic development targeted at policymakers. Keys to the City explains why economists, sociologists, and political scientists should take geography seriously.
Author | : L. A. Dougharty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Property tax |
ISBN | : |
This paper presents an examination of the impact of the property tax on several dimensions of urban structure. Those dimensions considered are blight, capital density, and leapfrogging. For each dimension previous research is reviewed, and theoretical models of the relationship between the tax and the impact are constructed. Both the level of the property tax and assessment practices were examined in the models dealing with urban blight. It was found that assessment practices that used depreciated value rather than market value as the basis for assessment would encourage urban blight. Similarly, the level of the tax could also be detrimental to the level of housing services that are offered. A model of individual entrepreneurial behavior was used in examining the impact of the property tax on capital density. It is shown that the level of the property tax has no bearing on capital density, but the composition of the tax (tax on land versus capital) can have important effects. The various causes of leapfrogging are discussed. It appears that any impact of the property tax is overshadowed by other forces at work in the urban environment. In fact, some of the research reviewed implies that the property tax may actually inhibit leapfrogging.
Author | : Rodolphe El-Khoury |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2015-06-23 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1317342267 |
Taking on the key issues in urban design, Shaping the City examines the critical ideas that have driven these themes and debates through a study of particular cities at important periods in their development. As well as retaining crucial discussions about cities such as Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Brasilia at particular moments in their history that exemplified the problems and themes at hand like the mega-city, the post-colonial city and New Urbanism, in this new edition the editors have introduced new case studies critical to any study of contemporary urbanism – China, Dubai, Tijuana and the wider issues of informal cities in the Global South. The book serves as both a textbook for classes in urban design, planning and theory and is also attractive to the increasing interest in urbanism by scholars in other fields. Shaping the City provides an essential overview of the range and variety of urbanisms and urban issues that are critical to an understanding of contemporary urbanism.
Author | : Ricky Burdett |
Publisher | : Phaidon Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-09-28 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780714877280 |
An authoritative - and fascinating - investigation into the spatial and social dynamics of cities at a global scale Shaping Cities in an Urban Age is the third addition to Phaidon's hugely successful Urban Age series, published in collaboration with the London School of Economics (LSE) and the Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft (AHG). Generously illustrated with photographs, visual data, and statistics, and featuring a series of essays written by leading people in their fields, Shaping Cities in an Urban Age addresses our most urgent contemporary and future urban issues by examining a set of key forces that have combined to create the city as we know it today. From the publisher of The Endless City and Living in the Endless City.
Author | : Rodolphe El-Khoury |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : ARCHITECTURE |
ISBN | : 9780415584586 |
Shaping the City takes on the key ideas facing the future of urban design.
Author | : Lance Jay Brown |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 2014-05-27 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1118846834 |
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to urban design, from a historical overview and basic principles to practical design concepts and strategies. It discusses the demographic, environmental, economic, and social issues that influence the decision-making and implementation processes of urban design. The Second Edition has been fully revised to include thorough coverage of sustainability issues and to integrate new case studies into the core concepts discussed.
Author | : Rand Corporation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Edward Ramsamy |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2006-09-27 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 113428697X |
This significant text examines the factors, both internal and external to the World Bank that have influenced its urban development agenda, and is essential reading for those involved in the areas of urban and development studies.
Author | : Christopher B. Leinberger |
Publisher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2010-03-18 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1597267767 |
Americans are voting with their feet to abandon strip malls and suburban sprawl, embracing instead a new type of community where they can live, work, shop, and play within easy walking distance. In The Option of Urbanism visionary developer and strategist Christopher B. Leinberger explains why government policies have tilted the playing field toward one form of development over the last sixty years: the drivable suburb. Rooted in the driving forces of the economy—car manufacturing and the oil industry—this type of growth has fostered the decline of community, contributed to urban decay, increased greenhouse gas emissions, and contributed to the rise in obesity and asthma. Highlighting both the challenges and the opportunities for this type of development, The Option of Urbanism shows how the American Dream is shifting to include cities as well as suburbs and how the financial and real estate communities need to respond to build communities that are more environmentally, socially, and financially sustainable.
Author | : Anthony King |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2015-03-27 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1317504208 |
Recent years have witnessed a surge in public awareness concerning the impact of world economic forces on cities. In this challenging book, the author argues that though the consciousness is new the phenomena themselves are not. For the past two centuries at least, world economic, political and cultural forces have been major factors shaping cities, patterns of urbanization and the physical and spatial forms of the built environment. Anthony King believes that the historical context of contemporary global restructuring must be recognized if present-day urban and regional change is to be properly understood. He explores and documents the cultural and spatial links between metropolitan core and colonial periphery and examines the historical foundations of the world urban system. He also looks at the social production of building and urban form, and demonstrates their potential for understanding economic, political, socail and cultural change on a global scale.