Eric Jones and the Urban Built Environment: A Retrospective Assessment

Lionel Frost ()
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Lionel Frost: Monash University

Chapter Chapter 2 in The European Miracle and Beyond, 2025, pp 17-40 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In several publications over a more than forty-year period, Eric Jones considered processes of improvement in the built environment and the role of natural disasters in generating economic growth and higher-quality urban amenities. This chapter provides an assessment of Jones’ ideas as they evolve through these writings. It also considers extensions to Jones’ work through scholarship on the vulnerability of towns in Asia, Europe, and North America to destructive fires, and the effectiveness of coping and recovery strategies in the face of rapid population growth. As debates continue about the dynamic nature of ecosystems and economies, and connections between human systems and their interface with nature, Jones’ analysis of the historical record is of continuing relevance.

Keywords: Urban environment; Economic growth; Institutional change; Natural disasters; Fire gap; Eric Jones (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-90248-2_2

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