The Oxford handbook of urban economics and planning

The Oxford handbook of urban economics and planning / edited by Nancy Brooks, Kieran Donaghy, Gerrit-Jan Knaap.

This volume embodies a problem-driven and theoretically informed approach to bridging frontier research in urban economics and urban/regional planning. The authors focus on the interface between these two sub-disciplines that have historically had an uneasy relationship.

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Other Authors: Brooks, Nancy, 1963- (Editor), Donaghy, Kieran (Editor), Knaap, Gerrit, 1956- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Series:Oxford handbooks.
Subjects:
Urban economics.
City planning.
City planning
Urban economics
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Principles of Planning and Urban Economics
  • Teaching urban economics to planners and the role of urban planning to economists / Nancy Brooks
  • Principles of planning for economists / Nikhil Kaza and Gerrit-Jan Knaap
  • What planners need to know about the new urban economics / Richard Arnott
  • II. Urban Structure, Growth and the Development Process
  • Managing change in urban infrastructure systems / Kieran Donaghy
  • Urban structure and economic growth / Peter Gordon and Harry Richardson
  • Discovering the efficiency of urban sprawl / Alex Anas
  • Urban decentralization, suburbanization and sprawl : an equity perspective / Joseph Persky and Wim Wiewel
  • The role of industrial clustering and increasing returns to scale in economic development and urban growth / Philip McCann
  • III. Social and Equity Issues
  • Social interactions within cities : neighborhood environments and peer relationships / Stephen Ross
  • Does working together prevent crime? Social capital, neighborhoods and crime / Hyunsun Choi and David Sloane
  • The drug war and inner-city neighborhoods / William W. Goldsmith
  • Homelessness in the United States / Brendan O'Flaherty
  • Urban poverty, economic segregation, and urban policy / Paul A. Jargowsky
  • Racial residential segregation in American cities / Leah Platt Boustan
  • Spatial assimilation and its discontents : the changing geography of immigrant integration in metropolitan America / Manuel Pastor
  • Gentrification : the perspectives of economists and planners / Ingrid Gould Ellen and Katherine O'Regan
  • IV. Urban Land Use and Transportation Policy
  • Economic and planning approaches to natural disasters / Yasuhide Okuyama and Stephanie E. Chang
  • Housing markets, prices, and policies / Richard K. Green
  • The economics of zoning / John F. McDonald and Daniel P. McMillen
  • Exclusionary land use policies : economic rationales and legal remedies / Casey J. Dawkins
  • Infill development : perspectives and evidence from economics and planning / Virginia McConnell and Keith Wiley
  • The economics of new urbanism and smart growth : Comparing price gains and costs between new urbanist and conventional developments / Yan Song and Mark Stevens
  • Toward a second generation of land use/travel models : theoretical and empirical frontiers / Randall Crane and Zhan Guo
  • Transportation economics for planners in the twenty-first century / Aisling Reynolds-Feighan and Roger Vickerman
  • Transportation policy : public transit, settlement patterns, and equity in the United States / Genevieve Giuliano
  • V. Economic, Workforce and Human Capital Development
  • Urban education : location and opportunity in the United States / Eric A. Hanushek and Kuzey Yilmaz
  • The role of the workforce development system in the economic development of urban areas / Kevin Hollenbeck
  • The roles of tax incentives and other business incentives in local economic development / Timothy J. Bartik and Randall Eberts
  • The interface of urban economics and urban planning in local economic development practice / Richard Schramm
  • Framing urban systems and planning concerns as a multi-level problem : a review of the integrated urban system models with an emphasis on their hierarchical structures / Jae Hong Kim and Geoffrey J.D. Hewings
  • VI. Urban Public Finance and Governance
  • Fiscal impact analysis and the costs of alternative development patterns / Lorelei Juntunen, Gerrit-Jan Knaap and Terry Moore
  • Addressing local fiscal disparities / Tracy M. Gordon
  • Land use regulations and property values : the windfalls capture idea revisited / Rachelle Alterman
  • VII. International Settings
  • The high rise and the slum : speculative urban development in Mumbai / Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava
  • Housing informality : an economist's perspective on urban planning / Martim O. Smolka and Ciro Biderman
  • Transportation in African cities : an institutional perspective / Margaret Grieco
  • Globalisation and urban growth in the developing world with special reference to Asian countries / Amitabh Kundu
  • Third World urban migration as a global sustainability challenge / Thomas Vietorisz
  • Urbanization and policy in Japan, South Korea, and China : Policy and reality / Chengri Ding and Xingshuo Zhao.

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