The field of ‘Urban Economics’ is an elusive object, whose US-based origins and internationalization we attempt to track in this paper. The most stable and distinctive object associated with the term ‘urban economics’ is the Alonso-Muth-Mills model. We thus reconstruct the field through...

Economics is a dynamic social science. Its contexts and dimensions keep changing with changes in time. In modern India, cities are playing chief role by its population share and contributor as centers for economic development. Also the approach of economics towards the urban area has been...

Coproduction is a practice that encourages active interaction between customers and producers in creating products, services or events. In the urban management framework the above-mentioned concept is just starting to be put into practice and is characterized by the involvement of residents in...

Urban pride is an individual and collective response to living in a given city. Unlike other emotions such as life satisfaction or happiness with which it is weakly positively correlated, pride involves stake holding; to be proud of something requires having an investment in its success...

The most frequent definition of the smart city in the literature defines it as a developed urban area that creates sustainable economic development and high quality of life. Therefore, a city should always be capable of identifying and effectively resolving its key development challenges in...

Digital finance is a mode of financial innovation conducive to raising the level of urban innovation. Using city-level panel data on 268 Chinese cities from 2011 to 2019, this paper investigates the relationship between digital finance and urban innovation with a fixed-effects model. Further,...