Introduction to Project Management
Author: Kathy Schwalb
Best-selling author Kathy Schwalbe's Introduction to Project Management, Second Edition offers a general yet concise introduction to project management. This book provides up-to- date information on how good project, program, and portfolio management can help you achieve organizational success. It includes over 50 samples of tools and techniques applied to one large project, and is suitable for all majors, including business, engineering, healthcare, and more. This text uses a chronological approach to project management, with detailed explanations and examples for initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing projects.
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Urban Economics
Author: Arthur OSullivan
Arthur O’Sullivan’s Urban Economics is the leading text for this small, but exciting market. This book covers urban economics as the discipline that lies at the intersection of geography and economics. The sixth edition is a thorough revision of previous incarnations—the author has reorganized and rewritten every chapter to produce a sleek and up-to-date text that will bring renewed attention to the Urban Economics course.
This sixth edition offers an extreme makeover from previous editions while also incorporating the remarkable progress in the field of urban economics in the last ten to fifteen years. Part I of the book explains why cities exist and what causes them to grow or shrink. Part II examines the market forces that shape cities and the role of government in determining land-use patterns. Part III looks at the urban transportation system, exploring the pricing and design of public transit systems and the externalities associated with automobile use (congestion, environmental damage, collisions). Part IV uses a model of the rational criminal to explore the causes of urban crime and the spatial consequences. Part V explains the unique features of the housing market and examines the effects of government housing policies. The final part of the book explains the rationale for our fragmented system of local government and explores the responses of local governments to intergovernmental grants and the responses of taxpayers to local taxes.
All of the economic concepts used in the book are covered in the typical intermediate microeconomics course, but a Tools of Microeconomics appendix isincluded that covers the key concepts for students whose exposure to microeconomics is limited to an introductory course or who could benefit from a review of intermediate concepts.
Table of Contents:
Ch. 1 Introduction and Axioms of Urban Economics 1
Pt. I Market Forces in the Development of Cities 15
Ch. 2 Why Do Cities Exist? 17
Ch. 3 Why Do Firms Cluster? 43
Ch. 4 City Size 68
Ch. 5 Urban Growth 90
Pt. II Land Rent and Land-Use Patterns 119
Ch. 6 Urban Land Rent 121
Ch. 7 Land-Use Patterns 155
Ch. 8 Neighborhood Choice 196
Ch. 9 Zoning and Growth Controls 226
Pt. III Urban Transportation 249
Ch. 10 Externalities from Autos 251
Ch. 11 Mass Transit 283
Pt. IV Urban Crime 307
Ch. 12 Crime 309
Pt. V Housing 337
Ch. 13 Why Is Housing Different? 339
Ch. 14 Housing Policy 358
Pt. VI Local Government 381
Ch. 15 The Role of Local Government 383
Ch. 16 Local Government Revenue 403
App Tools of Microeconomics 429
Index 453
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