Over the last four decades, the urban formation of Alexandria City's two entrance region has changed from natural agricultural farmlands to informal urbanized areas that contain different uses. The urban regeneration is an approach for restructuring the urban informal areas by providing radical...

Over the past decade, housing costs have risen faster than incomes. The need for affordable rental housing has well outpaced the number of available units as well as funding allocations at the federal level. Local regulation and land use policies that increase the cost of subsidized,...

We study the economic effects of place-based policies in the housing market, by investigating the effects of a place-based programme on prices of surrounding owner-occupied properties. The programme improved the quality of public housing in 83 impoverished neighbourhoods throughout the...

Purpose Hong Kong, like many other developed cities and countries, invests heavily in transport development. This study investigates whether the speculative benefits of future improvements in accessibility, brought about by impending transport development, will be capitalized into nearby...

Building upon past work on 3D printing, intellectual property and regulation, this Chapter considers the opportunities and challenges of 3D printing in urban design, planning, and renewal (Mendis, Lemley, and Rimmer, 2019). The development of Fab Cities and Maker Cities intersects with the...

"This book explores why the center cities of Baltimore, Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis have underperformed for more than 40 years, from 1970 to the present. The authors' investigation of how these cities and their residents can escape the poverty trap is informed by...

"In today's world, towns and cities dynamically develop over time and that's why urban regeneration is a widely experienced phenomenon. How can Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) create necessary conditions for the development of these phenomena? What is the role that BIDs have in...