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Urban Development eBook Series

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  • Regenerating Urban Land

    A Practitioner's Guide to Leveraging Private Investment

    by Rana Amirtahmasebi, Mariana Orloff, Sameh Wahba, Andrew Altman ...
    Series series Urban Development
    Regenerating Urban Land draws on the experience of eight case studies from around the world. The case studies outline various policy and financial instruments to attract private sector investment in urban regeneration of underutilized and unutilized areas and the requisite infrastructure improvements. In particular, each case study details the project cycle, from the scoping phase and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Regenerating Urban Land

    A Practitioner's Guide to Leveraging Private Investment

    by Rana Amirtahmasebi, Mariana Orloff, Sameh Wahba, Altman ...
    Series series Urban Development
    Regenerating Urban Land draws on the experience of eight case studies from around the world. The case studies outline various policy and financial instruments to attract private sector investment in urban regeneration of underutilized and unutilized areas and the requisite infrastructure improvements. In particular, each case study details the project cycle, from the scoping phase and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • Emerging Market Real Estate Investment

    Investing in China, India, and Brazil

    by David J. Lynn ...
    Series Book 196 - Frank J. Fabozzi Series
    Emerging markets in real estate investing have been an increasing focus for institutional real estate investors worldwide. Part of the Fabozzi series, this book is an insightful overview of international real estate focusing on three of the BRICs: China, India, and Brazil. The authors provide a framework for thinking about these dynamic markets characterized by youthful populations, extraordinary ... Read more

    $36.00 USD

  • The Public Wealth of Cities

    How to Unlock Hidden Assets to Boost Growth and Prosperity

    by Dag Detter, Stefan Folster ...
    How to leverage existing resources to meet the current and future needs of citiesCrumbling streets and bridges. Poorly performing schools and inadequate social services. These are common complaints in cities, which too often struggle just to keep the lights on, much less make the long-term investments necessary for future generations.It doesn't have to be this way. This book by two internationally ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • International Business: Environments & Operations, Global Edition

    by John Daniels, Lee Radebaugh, Daniel Sullivan ...
    Balancing authoritative theory and meaningful practice, International Business engages students on the subject of conducting business in international markets. The authors’ descriptions and ideas of international business are enhanced with contemporary examples, scenarios, and cases that help students effectively apply what they’ve learned. Now in its 16th Edition, ***International Business** ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Winning Global Markets

    How Businesses Invest and Prosper in the World's High-Growth Cities

    by Philip Kotler, Milton Kotler ...
    A new marketing paradigm focuses on the concentrated economic power of 600 global cities.City-Centered Marketing: Why Local is the Future of Global Business is a compelling practical analysis of a new direction of marketing within the context of intensifying urbanization and the shift of global economy from West to East. Philip Kotler, one of the world's foremost marketing experts, and his brother ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Regulating Infrastructure

    Monopoly, Contracts, and Discretion

    by José A. Gómez-Ibáñez ...
    This wide-ranging study of urban infrastructure " offers a series of fascinating arguments" in favor of market-oriented approaches to regulation ( Times Higher Education Supplement).In the 1980s and '90s, many countries turned to the private sector to provide infrastructure and utilities—such as gas, telephones, and highways—with the idea that market-based incentives would control costs and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Job Creation In Latin America And The Caribbean: Recent Trends And Policy Challenges

    by Pages Carmen; Pierre Gaelle; Scarpetta Stefano ...
    This book analyzes recent labor market trends in Latin American countries and the factors that underlie the failure to create more and more productive and rewarding jobs, a failure with substantial political and social costs. The authors analyze how growth and job creation in the region's economies compare with other emerging countries, the impact of job creation and destruction on productivity ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Community Land Trust Applications in Urban Neighborhoods

    Edited by John Emmeus Davis, Line Algoed, María E. Hernández -Torrales ...
    Series series Common Ground Monographs
    When the first community land trusts (CLTs) began appearing in the United States during the 1970s, all were located in rural areas. By the 1980s and 1990s, this innovative form of tenure was spreading into cities, suburbs, and towns. Homeownership remained a priority for urban CLTs, but other applications got added to the mix: revitalizing distressed neighborhoods; preventing displacement in ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Public Wealth of Nations

    How Management of Public Assets Can Boost or Bust Economic Growth

    by Dag Detter, Stefan Fölster ...
    We have spent the last three decades engaged in a pointless and irrelevant debate about the relative merits of privatization or nationalization. We have been arguing about the wrong thing while sitting on a goldmine of assets.Don’t worry about who owns those assets, worry about whether they are managed effectively.Why does this matter? Because despite the Thatcher/ Reagan economic revolution, the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Focusing Partnerships

    A Sourcebook for Municipal Capacity Building in Public-private Partnerships

    by Janelle Plummer ...
    Series series Municipal Capacity Building Series
    Despite the increasing occurrence of policies aimed at mobilising the financial and human resources of the private sector, most urban local governments responsible for urban basic services in the South do not have the capacity to initiate and sustain partnerships. Nor do they understand how they can create partnerships that target the poor. This sourcebook provides practical information and ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Planning, Connecting, and Financing Cities — Now

    Priorities for City Leaders

    by The World Bank ...
    This report provides Mayors and other policymakers with a policy framework and diagnostic tools to anticipate and implement strategies that can avoid their cities from locking into irreversible physical and social structures. At the core of the policy framework are the three main dimensions of urban development. • Planning— where the focus is on making land transactions easier, and making land use ... Read more

    $14.99 USD