Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Urban Economies

'I highly recommend students, teachers and researchers to enjoy reading this set of excellent papers.' -- Boris Graizbord, El Colegio de México. 'It is obvious that cities have long been the focus of 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.' --