With the introduction of the JESSICA (Joint European Support for Sustainable Investments in City Areas) Initiative, the European Commission aimed at strongly enhancing investments in urban areas to meet the steadily increasing requirements, arising from urbanisation, for European cities. One...

We present a citation-based analysis of the most important journals on real estate and real estate finance over a time period from 1986 to 2010. For each year, those three articles with the highest number of citations according to Google Scholar are identified. A thorough analysis of all 75...

The comparison of cities by indicators covering several topics of urban life is crucial for policy decisions such as funding allocation for urban development. Simply adding up a high number of indicators to one single index evokes reasonable criticism due to opacity and very limited...

Urban areas are nowadays seen as the engines of economic growth and thus politicians rivet on problems connected to urban development. Most importantly, the question of how projects, which enhance urban life should be funded raised concern. The European Commission reacted to this topic by the...