The objective of this book is to analyze changes in the landscape of Czechoslovakia / the Czech Republic since the first half of the 19th century. The text focuses not only on describing these considerable changes by means of statistical and spatial data, but also on explaining …
The literature on changing varieties of capitalism concentrates on the big economies, particularly the US, Japan and Germany. This important volume sheds light on the group of smaller European countries that share a high degree of corporatism - Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland…
In The Haves and the Have-Nots, Branko Milanovic explains how wealth is unevenly spread throughout our world, now and through time. He uses history, literature and stories straight out of today’s newspapers, to discuss one of the major divisions in our social lives: between the …
This volume synthesizes past and current, international research on the quality of urban life. It emphasizes the contributions of the urban environment to the overall well-being of residents living in urban are as ranging in scale from small cities and their hinterlands to metro…
Lateinamerika als großes architektonisches Laboratorium. Lateinamerika ist seit langem ein wichtiger Ort für die Architektur, und in den letzten 15 Jahren ist dort eine lebendige Szene entstanden. In diesem Buch werden Projekte erörtert, die quer durch Lateinamerika für Diskuss…
Real estate is the biggest real asset class in an economy, and Germany is the biggest economy in Europe. This implies opportunities as well as specific risks for investors and policy makers. As the German real estate markets have by and large been spared severe disruptions in th…
