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There are large and persistent divides between urban centers and rural areas in America due in part to structural causes. This primer focuses on the demographic differences between urban and rural areas within the United States and the unique challenges facing rural... View Details

Keywords: Inequality; Rural; Development; Equality and Inequality; Demographics; Rural Scope; Urban Scope; Development Economics; Problems and Challenges; Globalization; United States

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Educators

July 1997
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The Presidio Trust legislation: Preservation or Privatization?

By: Brian Trelstad

This analysis of the Presidio Trust legislation places the recent developments on the Presidio in the context of a century and a half of environmental planning. By first exploring the Presidio's history, and then tracing the more recent legislative background to the... View Details

Keywords: Presidio; Presidio Trust; National Parks; Urban Parks; Public-private Management; Natural Environment; Urban Scope; Planning

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August 2012 (Revised August 2015)
Technical Note

Building Cities: A Technical Note

By: Arthur I Segel and Oliver O. Hartleben

World population growth and increasing urbanization will require new cities in the future around the world. This technical note attempts to systematize the key design decisions that developers and policy makers alike must make to be able to proceed. View Details

Keywords: Real Estate; Urban Scope; City; Real Estate Industry

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Educators

Purchase

1984
Other Unpublished Work

Creative Financing of New York City Projects

By: Dutch Leonard

Keywords: Financing and Loans; Urban Scope; New York (city, NY)

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2010
Chapter

What Makes a City Entrepreneurial?

By: Edward L. Glaeser and William R. Kerr

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; City; Urban Scope; Situation or Environment

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17 Sep 2024
HBS Case

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

As investor pressure mounts on companies to show their environmental impacts, leaders are encountering an unwieldy tangle of terms and approaches. Climate accounting basics and a dictionary of sorts can help demystify the calculations and voluntary targets that... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

1976
Other Unpublished Work

Barriers to Equal Opportunity in Rural Housing Markets

By: Dutch Leonard

Keywords: Housing; Equality and Inequality; Rural Scope

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December 1978
Article

An Alternative Model for a Global Analysis of Quadratic Programs in a Finite Number of Steps

By: André Perold

Keywords: Global Range

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2002
Chapter

Factories in the Countryside: The Industrial Workforce and Social Division in Nantong County, 1895-1937

By: Elisabeth Koll

Keywords: History; Human Capital; Rural Scope; Society; China

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February 4, 2017
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Historical Transformations in Boundary and Land Use in New Delhi's Urban Villages

By: Sudev J Sheth

New Delhi’s “urban villages” are the result of government land acquisitions that began in 1912 and continued into the 1960s. Since the 1980s, growing demand for real estate within the city has engendered unprecedented residential and commercial development in these... View Details

Keywords: India; Urban Planning; Eminent Domain; Land Politics; Real Estate; History; City; Planning; Urban Scope; India; Delhi

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1978
Other Unpublished Work

Baseline Analysis of the Urban Homesteading Program

By: Dutch Leonard

Keywords: Housing; Programs; Urban Scope

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Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation - Course Catalog

won Ronald Coase the Nobel Prize in Economics [2] and which, unless we believe that one company will take over the world, is the logical corollary of the first, asks, "What is the limit to the scope of the firm?" The third question... View Details

March 24, 2014
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Roundtable on Shared Value in Education

By: Mark R. Kramer and Kate Tallant

Seventeen corporate and global education leaders gathered at the World Economic Forum 2014 in Davos, Switzerland, to discuss how they are rethinking the role of business in global education. View Details

Keywords: Shared Value; Education; Global Range

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