The ‘knowledge city’ (‘KC’) enriches regional development with institutional and environmental domains. Its competitors in the new-economy regeneration discourse include the ‘creative’, ‘green’, ‘intelligent’ and ‘smart’ cities. All suggest planning foresight but...

Visions : Smart urban planning / Simon Huston, Arvy Jadevicus and Zafir Sahin ; Green infrastructure / Will Manley and Sophia Price ; Food, waste and water -- the urban paradox / Richard Baines ; Place and community consciousness / Negin Minaei -- Institutions : Local innovation in emerging...

Globally, regional cities will bear the brunt of future economic growth. Planning foresight and intelligent policy is needed to dampen malignant growth proclivities and, instead, facilitate sustainable urban development (‘SUD'). But policy makers can struggle to conceptualise, never mind...

The dissemination of robust real estate data can help to improve market efficiency and investment analysis. To provide a perspective on property prices, a long series is vital. While long commercial and residential real estate data series are available, agricultural land is less well served....

The development of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) into a regional trade, tourism, finance and logistics hub has transformed its real estate markets. However, development has been accompanied by significant real estate prices variance. UAE residential market values (MV) are exposed to...

Income capitalization is a widely used in commercial property for valuation, development appraisal or for project feasibility analysis. As a decision-making tool, its technical and philosophical limitations are manifest but often overlooked. If bungled, capitalization, can lead to ‘white...

The term ‘smart' and ‘strategy' are widespread but convey different notions across disciplines. Unsurprisingly, when ‘smart strategy' is applied its meanings vary with context. It is therefore instructive to look for some cross-disciplinary insights with a view to sketching a smart...