The purpose of this book is to provide a key text on urban economics in a global context. The book is driven by the themes of urban economics - urban growth, housing, property investment and development, etc. - and the different approaches to these themes taken in different regions of the world are introduced and exemplified in boxes within each chapter.
The first text to treat Urban Economics in a truly global context
Boxes within the text of each chapter focus the debate on individual countries or regions, including Western Europe, the United States and Canada, East Central Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, sub-Saharan Africa, the Arab World, Indonesia, China and India
Paul N Balchin
China development environment globalization planning research Urban Areas urban development