Urban and Regional Horizons

Urban and regional planning

Urban and regional planning is a notion that encompasses the whole set of social activities aimed at anticipating, representing and regulating the development of an urban or a regional area. It thus articulates intellectual activities of study and prospective, of social and economic forecasting with more concrete activities such as infrastructure programming, land reservation and land use regul...

Urban and Regional Planners

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Regional Restructuring and Urban Regimes:

Coordinating Regional Supply and Urban Delivery Networks

Complex water networks, which have been structurally organized into Regional Supply and Urban Delivery networks from a functional perspective, are facing more challenges in their real-time control because of the reduced water resources, intensive energy requirements and increased attention towards the environmental impact of water use. Optimal management of complex water networks involves more ...

Causal Inference in Urban and Regional Economics

Recovery of causal relationships in data is an essential part of scholarly inquiry in the social sciences. This chapter discusses strategies that have been successfully used in urban and regional economics for recovering such causal relationships. Essential to any successful empirical inquiry is careful consideration of the sources of variation in the data that identify parameters of interest. ...