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Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Urban Economies
Edited by Peter Karl Kresl and Jaime Sobrino
In this timely Handbook, seventeen renowned contributors from Asia, the Americas and Europe provide chapters that deal with some of the most intriguing and important aspects of research methodologies on cities and urban economies.
Handbook
- Published in print:
- 28 Feb 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780857934611
- eISBN:
- 9780857934628
- Pages:
- 544
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- Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Urban Economies
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: City makers, federal interventions and territorial organization: the case of Mexico
- Chapter 2: Empirical approaches to urban competitiveness analysis
- Chapter 3: Comparative urban studies in Europe: an introduction to the Euricur method
- Chapter 4: Analysis of urban well-being and its influencing factors in the spatial distribution in China
- Chapter 5: A comparative approach to doing research on cities: comparing North American cities to others
- Chapter 6: Questions and challenges in studies on Latin-American cities
- Chapter 7: Doing research in African cities: the case study method
- Chapter 8: Relating cities to their international context
- Chapter 9: Defining the urban economic and administrative spaces
- Chapter 10: An insight on the unit of analysis in urban research
- Chapter 11: Evaluation of strategic planning excercises
- Chapter 12: Imagining the future of an individual city
- Chapter 13: The limits of environmental management in the Mexico megacity: the air pollution case
- Chapter 14: Urban demographic growth: the case of megacities
- Chapter 15: Evaluating the urban milieu of an individual city
- Chapter 16: Analysing internal migration pathways in Mexico
- Chapter 17: Model building for infrastructure initiatives
- Chapter 18: Local public-private relationships for economic development in Mexico: a qualitative analysis
- Chapter 19: The creative urban diaspora economy: a disparity analysis among migrant entrepreneurs
- Index
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Handbook Chapter
- Published:
- 28 February 2013
- Category:
- Handbook Chapter
- Pages:
- vii–ix (3 total)
Collection:
Economics 2013
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- Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Urban Economies
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: City makers, federal interventions and territorial organization: the case of Mexico
- Chapter 2: Empirical approaches to urban competitiveness analysis
- Chapter 3: Comparative urban studies in Europe: an introduction to the Euricur method
- Chapter 4: Analysis of urban well-being and its influencing factors in the spatial distribution in China
- Chapter 5: A comparative approach to doing research on cities: comparing North American cities to others
- Chapter 6: Questions and challenges in studies on Latin-American cities
- Chapter 7: Doing research in African cities: the case study method
- Chapter 8: Relating cities to their international context
- Chapter 9: Defining the urban economic and administrative spaces
- Chapter 10: An insight on the unit of analysis in urban research
- Chapter 11: Evaluation of strategic planning excercises
- Chapter 12: Imagining the future of an individual city
- Chapter 13: The limits of environmental management in the Mexico megacity: the air pollution case
- Chapter 14: Urban demographic growth: the case of megacities
- Chapter 15: Evaluating the urban milieu of an individual city
- Chapter 16: Analysing internal migration pathways in Mexico
- Chapter 17: Model building for infrastructure initiatives
- Chapter 18: Local public-private relationships for economic development in Mexico: a qualitative analysis
- Chapter 19: The creative urban diaspora economy: a disparity analysis among migrant entrepreneurs
- Index