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The urban imperative : towards competitive cities / edited by Edward Glaeser and Abha Joshi-Ghani.
- Title
- The urban imperative : towards competitive cities / edited by Edward Glaeser and Abha Joshi-Ghani.
- Publication
- New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2015.
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- Description
- xlvii, 463 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white); 23 cm
- Summary
- Emphasizes the need to rethink cities to make them more competitive and people-centered, looking at challenges such as the changing economic landscape, city competitiveness, entrepreneurship, inclusion, informality, sustainability, and provision of essential services.
- Subject
- World Bank
- Entwicklungsländer
- Stadtentwicklung
- Agglomerationseffekt
- Urbanisierung
- Urbanization > Developing countries > Finance
- City planning > Developing countries > Finance
- Urban economics
- City planning > Finance
- Economic history
- Urban economics
- Urbanization > Finance
- Developing countries > Economic conditions
- Developing countries
- Note
- Contributed articles.
- Copyright: The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Rethinking cities / Edward Glaeser and Abha Joshi-Ghani -- Urbanization as opportunity / Brandon Fuller and Paul Romer -- The shifting urban economic landscape : what does it mean for cities? / Richard Dobbs and Jaana Remes -- Urbanization and the geography of development / J. Vernon Henderson -- Analyzing urban systems : have megacities become too large? / Klaus Desmet and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg -- Are cities the new growth escalator? / Enrico Moretti -- Entrepreneurship, public policy, and cities / Joshua Lerner -- Urbanization and (in)formalization / Ejaz Ghani and Ravi Kanbur -- Bridging divides : enabling urban capabilities / Saskia Sassen -- The great migration : urban aspirations / Michael Keith -- Infrastructure : doing more with less / Johathan Woetzel and Herbert Pohl -- Urban transport : can public-private partnerships work? / Eduardo Engel and Alexander Galetovic -- Sustainable and smart cities / Matthew E. Kahn -- Housing matters / Sonia Hammam -- converting land into affordable housing floor space / Alain Bertaud -- Housing and urbanization in Africa : unleashing a formal market process / Paul Collier and Anthony J. Venables.
- ISBN
- 9780199457779
- 0199457778
- LCCN
- ^^2015306798
- OCLC
- 903003036
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library