City Finance

Cities and the Creative Class gathers in one place for the first time the research leading up to Richard Florida's theory on how the growth of the creative economy shapes the development of cities and regions. In a new introduction, Florida updates this theory and responds to the critics of his 2002 best seller, The Rise of the Creative Class.

The high-stakes battle between two casino titans over the Las Vegas of the East Coast. It's all quiet now on the eastern front of the American gaming industry - Atlantic City, New Jersey - but for five chaotic years, real estate developer Richard "Skip" Bronson was at the white-hot center of a titanic clash of money and power that transformed Atlantic City from a struggling day-tripper place with buses in and out to a born again destination drawing tourists from New York, Philadelphia, and other major cities along the eastern seaboard.

This shows one of the principles that men and women used to get rich, and how you can use the same principles to attain wealth.

Cincuenta años después de su publicación, Muerte y vida de las grandes ciudades es, según el New York Times, «probablemente la obra más influyente en la historia de la planificación urbana». Jane Jacobs, columnista y crítica de arquitectura en Nueva York de principios de los años sesenta, afirmaba que la diversidad y la vitalidad de las ciudades estaban siendo destruidas por algunos arquitectos y urbanistas muy influyentes.

Governments and institutions manage assets, which businesses would love to use. These assets can give marketers access to prospects they wish to convert into customers. This book identifies dozens of examples of such assets and the terms that can be negotiated to gain more revenue for their owners. By aggressively pursuing these strategies, governments find they can generate as much as two percent of their total gross revenues.

We have released the genie from the bottle: climate change is coming, and there's no stopping it. The question, according to Matthew Kahn, is not how were going to avoid a hotter future but how were going to adapt to it. In Climatopolis, Kahn, one of the worlds foremost experts on the economics of the environment, argues that cities and regions will adapt to rising temperatures over time, slowly transforming our everyday lives.

Detroit, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, and Baltimore - at one time these were among the 20 most populous and important cities in the US. They helped build our national economy through much of the 20th century but have since struggled due to deindustrialization. As a result of their shared past, this group of former industrial powerhouse cities shares unique structural and cultural traits that make them fertile ground upon which to build a startup-driven resurgence; an outcome that would yield nationwide economic, social, and well-being benefits.

Selling on eBay seems simple enough. You post a few items for sale, wait for the bids to start rolling in, collect the cash, and mail out the items you sold. Rinse and repeat. Sounds easy enough, doesn't it? Unfortunately, things get a bit more complicated when you start eBaying in real life. Writing good listings that make buyers want to pull the trigger on your items isn't easy. Taking good pictures that show your items in the best light can be harder than you think. Pricing your item to sell can seem a bit like rolling the dice....