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Book SynopsisIn 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.
Trade ReviewIt is obvious that cities have long been the focus if analysis by the scholars and practitioners whose writings published in the Kresl-Sobrino
Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Urban Economies. The depth and excellence of the numerous topics examined reflects effective networking between the scholars involved, their analyses of approaches, problems and potentials of cities on the numerous continents, and the continuing role of the Global Urban Competitiveness Project in encouraging the development of methodologies and data helpful in understanding the hard and soft determinants of the growth and decline of cities. --Pierre-Paul Proulx, Universite de Montreal, Canada
I highly recommend students, teachers and researchers to enjoy reading this set of excellent papers. --Boris Graizbord, El Colegio de Mexico
Table of ContentsContents: Introduction PART I: BASIC METHODOLOGIES FOR RESEARCHING CITIES 1. City Makers, Federal Interventions and Territorial Organization: The Case of Mexico Vincente Ugalde and Stéphanie Ronda 2. Empirical Approaches to Urban Competitiveness Analysis Peter Karl Kresl 3. Comparative Urban Studies in Europe: An Introduction to the Euricur Method Alexander Otgaar and Leo van den Berg PART II: CONTINENTAL DISTINCTIONS 4. Analysis of Urban Well-being and its Influencing Factors in the Spatial Distribution in China Ni Pengfei, Qingbin Li and Chao Li 5. A Comparative Approach to Doing Research on Cities: Comparing North American Cities to Others Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay and Angélo Battaglia 6. Questions and Challenges in Studies on Latin-American Cities José Marcos Pinto da Cunha 7. Doing Research in African Cities: The Case Study Method James Duminy, Vanessa Watson and Nancy Odendaal PART III: POSITIONING CITIES 8. Relating Cities to their International Context Earl H. Fry 9. Defining the Urban Economic and Administrative Spaces Carlo Salone 10. An Insight on the Unit of Analysis in Urban Research Joan Trullén, Raphael Boix and Vittorio Galletto PART IV: PLANNING FOR THE FUTURES 11. Evaluation of Strategic Planning Exercises Peter Karl Kresl 12. Imagining the Future of an Individual City John F. McDonald 13. The Limits of Environmental Management in the Mexico Megacity: The Air Pollution Case José Luis Lezama PART V: URBAN STRUCTURES 14. Urban Demographic Growth: The Case of Megacities Jaime Sobrino 15. Evaluating the Urban Milieu of an Individual City William F. Lever 16. Analysing Internal Migration Pathways in Mexico Jaime Sobrino 17. Model Building for Infrastructure Initiatives Bert van Wee, Jan Anne Annema and Hugo Priemus 18. Local Public–Private Relationships for Economic Development in Mexico: A Qualitative Analysis Isela Orihuela 19. The Creative Urban Diaspora Economy: A Disparity Analysis Among Migrant Entrepreneurs Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp and Daniel Arribas-Bel Index
