Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Urban Economies

Edited by Peter Karl Kresl, Charles P. Vaughan Professor of Economics Emeritus, Bucknell University, US and Jaime Sobrino, El Colegio de México

’It is obvious that cities have long been the focus if analysis by the scholars and practitioners whose writings published in the Kresl-Sobrino Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Urban Economies. The depth and excellence of the numerous topics examined reflects effective networking between the scholars involved, their analyses of approaches, problems and potentials of cities on the numerous continents, and the continuing role of the Global Urban Competitiveness Project in encouraging the development of methodologies and data helpful in understanding the hard and soft determinants of the growth and decline of cities.’

• Contents:IntroductionPART I: BASIC METHODOLOGIES FOR RESEARCHING CITIES1. City Makers, Federal Interventions and Territorial Organization: The Case of MexicoVincente Ugalde and Stéphanie Ronda2. Empirical Approaches to Urban Competitiveness AnalysisPeter Karl Kresl3. Comparative Urban Studies in Europe: An Introduction to the Euricur MethodAlexander Otgaar and Leo van den Berg PART II: CONTINENTAL DISTINCTIONS4. Analysis of Urban Well-being and its Influencing Factors in the Spatial Distribution in ChinaNi Pengfei, Qingbin Li and Chao Li5. A Comparative Approach to Doing Research on Cities: Comparing North American Cities to OthersDiane-Gabrielle Tremblay and Angélo Battaglia6. Questions and Challenges in Studies on Latin-American CitiesJosé Marcos Pinto da Cunha7. Doing Research in African Cities: The Case Study MethodJames Duminy, Vanessa Watson and Nancy Odendaal PART III: POSITIONING CITIES8. Relating Cities to their International ContextEarl H. Fry9. Defining the Urban Economic and Administrative SpacesCarlo Salone10. An Insight on the Unit of Analysis in Urban ResearchJoan Trullén, Raphael Boix and Vittorio GallettoPART IV: PLANNING FOR THE FUTURES11. Evaluation of Strategic Planning ExercisesPeter Karl Kresl12. Imagining the Future of an Individual CityJohn F. McDonald13. The Limits of Environmental Management in the Mexico Megacity: The Air Pollution CaseJosé Luis Lezama PART V: URBAN STRUCTURES14. Urban Demographic Growth: The Case of MegacitiesJaime Sobrino15. Evaluating the Urban Milieu of an Individual CityWilliam F. Lever16. Analysing Internal Migration Pathways in Mexico Jaime Sobrino17. Model Building for Infrastructure InitiativesBert van Wee, Jan Anne Annema and Hugo Priemus18. Local Public–Private Relationships for Economic Development in Mexico: A Qualitative Analysis Isela Orihuela19. The Creative Urban Diaspora Economy: A Disparity Analysis Among Migrant EntrepreneursKarima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp and Daniel Arribas-BelIndex