Franklin Obeng-Odoom

Reconstructing Urban Economics (eBook, ePUB)

Towards a Political Economy of the Built Environment

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Neoclassical economics, the intellectual bedrock of modern capitalism, faces growing criticisms, as many of its key assumptions and policy prescriptions are systematically challenged. Yet, there remains one field of economics where these limitations continue virtually unchallenged: the study of cities and regions in built-environment economics.

In this book, Franklin Obeng-Odoom draws on institutional, Georgist and Marxist economics to clearly but comprehensively show what the key issues are today in thinking about urban economics. In doing so, he demonstrates the widespread tensions and contradictions in the status quo, showing how to reconstruct urban economics in order to create a more just society and environment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783606627
• Artikelnr.: 47112266

Autorenporträt

Franklin Obeng-Odoom is a research fellow at the University of Technology, Sydney. In addition to editing the African Review of Economics and Finance, he has also authored Governance for Pro-Poor Urban Development (2013) and Oiling the Urban Economy (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction: Dissent and Reconstruction Part I: Establishing
Principles for Urban Progress 1. Scaffolding the Principles and Values of
Reconstruction 2. The Urban Challenge 3. The Urban Economy Part II:
Analysing Material Conditions in Cities 4. Urban Economic Growth:
Globalisation, Trade, and Convergence 5. Informal Economies 6. Urban
Poverty; Socio-Spatial Inequality Part III: Creating a Socio-Ecologically
Sensitive Future 7. Housing 8. Homo Automobilus 9. Sustainable Urban
Development Conclusion: Towards A Political Economy of the Built
Environment