Preface -- Ecological Crisis, Eco-civilization and Eco-city -- An Evaluation on China’s Eco-city Construction -- Environment-Friendly City -- Resource-Saving City -- Green Industry City -- Circular Economy city -- Landscape and Leisure city -- Green Consumption city.

Changing the Rules of Development: Institutional Innovation in Rebuilding China’s Shanty Towns -- Slum Upgrading Policies of China’s Shanty Towns -- Financing Development of Shanty Towns Upgrading -- Systems of Land and Security of Tenure -- Housing Development and Sustainable -- Economic...

1 Introduction -- 2 Urban Models -- 3 Urban Models in Italy: Partnership Forms, PPP, Territorial Contexts, Tools, Results -- 4 Large-Scale Restructuring Processes in the Urban Space of Budapest -- 5 PPP in Urban Development in Germany: Illustrated on Two Pilot Projects in Leipzig -- 6 Conclusion

Interpretative Models of Urban Intervention -- Impact of the General Model on Specific Case Studies -- Participation and the Socio-Political Foundations of the Management of Urban Redevelopments -- Case Studies -- Conclusion

Simon Kempf has developed hedonic (quality-adjusted) office rent indices for German metropolitan areas. His study explores new territory as it constructs, for the first time, such indices for Germany. The author thereby has taken into account the different qualities of the underlying lease...

Introduction -- Sustainable Building Certification and the Rent Premium: A Panel Data Approach -- Operating Expenses and The Rent Premium of Sustainable Buildings -- Sustainability and the Leasing Decision of Office Occupiers in the U.S. -- Summary, Practical Implications, and Further Research.

Teurer, teurer, wohnen in der Stadt -- Alles nur eine spekulative Blase? -- Viele neue Einwohner, kaum neue Wohnungen -- Weshalb so wenig gebaut wird -- Angebot und Nachfrage: 10 Maßnahmen, die den Markt in Schwung bringen -- Drei Irrwege der Wohnungspolitik -- Zurück aufs Land? --...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of housing theory and policy with a focus on metropolitan regions. The results are based on case studies of twelve European metropolitan regions, including expert panels organized in each. Using an approach from the field of industrial economics, the...

This work is motivated by the research gap evident in the area of forecasting models for the German office market. Since rent, price or yield forecasting research is mainly done by commercially oriented organizations, this work delivers an examination from a scientific point of view. Thus the...

This work exploits the natural experiment provided by the unexpected disintegration of socialist East Germany to study the impact of the mass immigration of East Germans on housing rents in West German metropolitan areas. Using a spatial correlation approach, annual district-level migration data...