"Brings policymakers, practitioners, and scholars up to speed on the state of knowledge on urban and regional policy issues. Conceptualizes fresh thinking of different aspects (economic development, education, land use), presenting main themes and implications and identifying gaps to fill for...

"This book explores wide-ranging experiences in industrial policy and urban policy transformations that identify methodologies related to decision-making, risk, and uncertainty, and design and development on industrial and urban policy substantive and procedural topics. It also discusses the...

"This book explores wide-ranging experiences in industrial policy and urban policy transformations that identify methodologies related to decision-making, risk, and uncertainty, and design and development on industrial and urban policy substantive and procedural topics. It also discusses the...

This important Handbook reveals that most urban growth takes place in the less developed world and much of it represents over-urbanization--that is, urbanization in which most migrants cannot effectively compete for employment, cannot find adequate shelter and do not have the means to feed...