Results 11 to 20 of about 917,689 (308)
Urban Growth and Housing Supply [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2005 Cities are physical structures, but the modern literature on urban economic development rarely acknowledges that fact. The elasticity of housing supply helps determine the extent to which increases in productivity will create bigger cities or just higher paid workers and more expensive homes.
Edward L. Glaeser +2 more
core +6 more sources
Defining the Urban Condition: Accelerating Change in the Geography of Power, 1995 Down through the centuries, Amsterdam has always been a compactly built city. There were good reasons for the compactness. It was not easy to make the marshy ground suitable for building. Water courses had to be filled in, marshlands drained, dikes had to be constructed and canals dug.
Margreet Duinker +2 more
openaire +1 more source
Tidsskrift for boligforskning, 2023 A fundamental distinction in welfare state research is the one between universal and selective policies. Consequently, housing researchers often categorize national housing regimes under one of these headings.
Bo Bengtsson, Martin Grander
doaj +1 more source
Review: The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Journal of Social Equity and Public Administration, 2023 By Richard Rothstein. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, W. W. Norton & Company, 2017. 346 pages, hardcover.
Maren Trochmann
doaj +1 more source
Housing sales in urban Beijing [PDF]
Applied Economics, 2011 In the housing market, new properties sometimes experience delays before they are sold. Such delays reflect the preferences of buyers in respect of the homes’ characteristics. Therefore, it is important for managerial purposes to identify the causes of housing sales delays.
Carlos Pestana Barros +2 more
openaire +4 more sources
Urban form and planning in the information age: Lessons from literature [PDF]
Spatium, 2008 This paper focuses on the relationship between information and communication technologies (ICT) and urban form, and on urban planning response to spatial and economic consequences of ICT.
Maeng Da-Mi, Nedović-Budić Zorica
doaj +1 more source
Frugality in multi-actor interactions and absorptive capacity of Addis-Ababa light-rail transport
Journal of Urban Management, 2020 Cities in transition need strategies to do more and better using less or limited resources, i.e., to be frugal in approach, especially when implementing expensive infrastructures.
Taslim Alade +2 more
doaj +1 more source
Shear Characteristics of Gravel Soil With Different Fillers
Frontiers in Materials, 2022 In recent years, China has established many large water conservancy projects in the western mountainous areas. However, dam foundation excavation produces a huge amount of waste rock mixture. A soil-rock mixture with unique structural characteristics can
Huahua Zhang +7 more
doaj +1 more source
Towards energy efficiency: retrofitting existing office buildings using smart technologies
Journal of Engineering and Applied Science, 2023 Buildings are considered one of the main causes of increasing CO2 emissions due to their excessive consumption of energy. The drive towards sustainability represents a challenge especially in existing buildings.
Mona Azouz, Sarah Elariane
doaj +1 more source
An object-based classification approach for mapping "migrant housing" in the mega-urban area of the Pearl River Delta (China) [PDF]
, 2011 Urban areas develop on formal and informal levels. Informal development is often highly dynamic, leading to a lag of spatial information about urban structure types.
Baatz +13 more
core +2 more sources