Federal law requires metropolitan planning organizations in urban areas of more than 50,000 people to write long-range (20- to 30-year) metropolitan transportation plans and to revise or update those plans every 4 to 5 years. A review of plans for more than 75 of the nation's largest...

This review consider's Frederick F. Wherry's experience living in and studying the Barrio, a Latino neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Wherry chronicles community transformation through authentic interpretation of the local culture. He shows how authentic branding, instead of cheap...

This paper studies the effect of the introduction of government provided Internet technology to rural communities on regional entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship increases among larger Internet communities, as the Internet spurs entrepreneurial activities by enabling agglomeration across areas...

The structure employed is a small open economy, with one city and a rural hinterland, two traded goods, a transport sector, two specific factors, and mobile labour. A socially profitable programme will promote not only internal, but also external trade. Theory and numerical examples indicate...

In the space of 30 years, Spain has built the world’s second most extensive HighSpeed Rail (HSR) network. Little is known, however, about how HSR is affecting localand regional economies in Spain, and whether such costly infrastructure is justified.This dissertation seeks to contribute to this...

Investment in infrastructure assets represents allocation of financial resources to long-lived, physical assets. Managing risk to maximize returns and minimize unforeseen negative outcomes is key to increasing investor confidence and the attractiveness of investing in infrastructure. The nature...

Providing access to electricity is widely considered as a precondition for socio-economic development in rural areas of developing countries. While electrification interventions are often expected to reduce poverty through productive uses for income generating purposes, the reality in rural...

This paper is an attempt to use the ideas of deepening complexity and self organization theory to a life experiment in developing tourism in a Portuguese mountain region da Estrela.