Economic development in industrialized countries is characterized by rising per capita GDP, increasing life expectancy, and an ever larger share of the population living in cities. We explain this pattern within a regional innovation-driven economic growth model with labor mobility and a...

Post-reform urban conditions -- Establishing the land market -- Establishing the housing market -- Market configuration and actors in urban development -- State, governance, and land management -- Changing city planning : from resource allocation to place promotion -- Entrepreneurial city and...