- City Economics
- Brendan O'Flaherty
- This introductory but innovative textbook on the economics of cities is aimed at students of urban and regional policy as well as of undergraduate economics. It deals with standard topics, including automobiles, mass transit, pollution, housing, and education but it also discusses non-standard topics such as segregation, water supply, sewers, garbage, fire prevention, housing codes, homelessness, crime, illicit drugs, and economic development.
- Hardcover 2005
- Managing the Metropolis
- Edited by Eduardo Rojas
- Edited by Juan R. Cuadrado-Roura
- Edited by Jose Miguel Fernandez Guell
- Translated by Sarah Schineller
- This book explores key metropolitan management issues, presents practical principles of good governance as they apply to the metropolis, and unfolds cases of institutional and programmatic arrangements to tackle such issues.
- Paperback 2008
- Regional Advantage
- AnnaLee Saxenian
- Why is it that business in California's Silicon Valley flourished while along Route 128 in Massachusetts declined in the 90s? The answer, Saxenian suggests, has to do with the fact that despite similar histories and technologies, Silicon Valley developed a decentralized but cooperative industrial system while Route 128 came to be dominated by independent, self-sufficient corporations. The result of more than one hundred interviews, this compelling analysis highlights the importance of local sources of competitive advantage in a volatile world economy.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover