Reconstructing Urban Economics
Towards a Political Economy of the Built Environment
Reconstructing Urban Economics
Towards a Political Economy of the Built Environment
Description
Neoclassical economics, the intellectual bedrock of modern capitalism, faces growing criticisms, as many of its key assumptions and policy prescriptions are systematically challenged. Yet, there remains one field of economics where these limitations continue virtually unchallenged: the study of cities and regions in built-environment economics.
In this book, Franklin Obeng-Odoom draws on institutional, Georgist and Marxist economics to clearly but comprehensively show what the key issues are today in thinking about urban economics. In doing so, he demonstrates the widespread tensions and contradictions in the status quo, showing how to reconstruct urban economics in order to create a more just society and environment.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Dissent and Reconstruction
Part I: Establishing Principles for Urban Progress
1. Scaffolding the Principles and Values of Reconstruction
2. The Urban Challenge
3. The Urban Economy
Part II: Analysing Material Conditions in Cities
4. Urban Economic Growth: Globalisation, Trade, and Convergence
5. Informal Economies
6. Urban Poverty; Socio-Spatial Inequality
Part III: Creating a Socio-Ecologically Sensitive Future
7. Housing
8. Homo Automobilus
9. Sustainable Urban Development
Conclusion: Towards A Political Economy of the Built Environment
Product details
| Published | Aug 15 2016 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 296 |
| ISBN | 9781783606627 |
| Imprint | Zed Books |
| Illustrations | Tables, black and white 10 ; Figures 14 |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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