Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Urban Economies

Edited by Peter Karl Kresl and Jaime Sobrino

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In 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.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Geography; Politics and Public Policy Research Methods; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
ISBN: 9780857934611
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 City makers, federal interventions and territorial organization: the case of Mexico , pp 3-31

Vincente Ugalde and Stéphanie Ronda

Ch 2 Empirical approaches to urban competitiveness analysis , pp 32-59

Peter Karl Kresl

Ch 3 Comparative urban studies in Europe: an introduction to the Euricur method , pp 60-71

Alexander Otgaar and Leo van den Berg

Ch 4 Analysis of urban well-being and its influencing factors in the spatial distribution in China , pp 75-96

Ni Pengfei, Qingbin Li and Chao Li

Ch 5 A comparative approach to doing research on cities: comparing North American cities to others , pp 97-126

Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay and Angélo Battaglia

Ch 6 Questions and challenges in studies on Latin-American cities , pp 127-152

José Marcos Pinto da Cunha

Ch 7 Doing research in African cities: the case study method , pp 153-172

James Duminy, Vanessa Watson and Nancy Odendaal

Ch 8 Relating cities to their international context , pp 175-204

Earl H. Fry

Ch 9 Defining the urban economic and administrative spaces , pp 205-234

Carlo Salone

Ch 10 An insight on the unit of analysis in urban research , pp 235-266

Joan Trullén, Rafael Boix and Vittorio Galletto

Ch 11 Evaluation of strategic planning excercises , pp 269-294

Peter Karl Kresl

Ch 12 Imagining the future of an individual city , pp 295-319

John McDonald

Ch 13 The limits of environmental management in the Mexico megacity: the air pollution case , pp 320-340

José Luis Lezama

Ch 14 Urban demographic growth: the case of megacities , pp 343-371

Jaime Sobrino

Ch 15 Evaluating the urban milieu of an individual city , pp 372-395

William F. Lever

Ch 16 Analysing internal migration pathways in Mexico , pp 396-422

Jaime Sobrino

Ch 17 Model building for infrastructure initiatives , pp 423-441

Bert van Wee, Jan Anne Annema and Hugo Priemus

Ch 18 Local public-private relationships for economic development in Mexico: a qualitative analysis , pp 442-471

Isela Orihuela

Ch 19 The creative urban diaspora economy: a disparity analysis among migrant entrepreneurs , pp 472-496

Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp and Daniel Arribas- Bel

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