The Book Company: New Products - Urban & Regional

The knowledge broker (Sir Howard Bernstein's Manchester and lessons for national renewal)

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 02:01:32 +0000

An illuminating biography that offers lessons in leadership from the man behind Manchester’s revival.

A golden thread stretches from Manchester’s post-industrial decline to its renaissance as a city of shining towers and world-class ambition. That thread is Sir Howard Bernstein.

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Price: $36.95

The Political Economy of Uneven and Combined Development (The Case of North East England)

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:06:44 +0000

The focus of this book is the processes through which industries and regions grow and decline in capitalist economies via an investigation of the trajectory of change in the North East of England. The account of regional change is framed in terms of uneven and combined development, temporally a..

Price: $64.99

The Wealth of Cities and the Poverty of Nations

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:18:23 +0000

Cities are seen as essentially “good”: innovative, pro-growth, poverty-reducing. In a challenging corrective to this common portrayal, Christof Parnreiter argues that the same urban properties which make cities so extraordinarily proficient at producing the “good” innovations – agglomeration econo..

Price: $29.95

The Urban Field (Capital and Governmentality in the Age of Techno-Monopoly)

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:17:48 +0000

We live in an era of techno-monopoly power in which technocapitalism - through ubiquitous digital platforms - has colonized both the internet and key aspects of our everyday lives. Cities and larger urban and metropolitan environments have provided a fertile ground for the rise and rapid growth of..

Price: $39.95

When the Sky Fell (Hurricane Maria and the United States in Puerto Rico)

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:42:22 +0000

A searing investigation of the factors that devastated Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria, from acclaimed investigative reporter Michael Deibert.

When Hurricane Maria roared across Puerto Rico in September 2017, it devastated the island. It was an unprecedented natural dis..

Price: $24.99

Night Rules (Ten Big Ideas for Governing Nightlife in the 24-Hour City)

Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:23:24 +0000

This book is the first comprehensive account of how cities around the world manage what happens after dark, arguing that the night is a legitimate domain of urban governance. It features 10 actionable ideas for transforming how cities govern the night.

Price: $54.99

Residential Real Estate (Urban & Regional Economic Analysis)

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:25:10 +0000

Residential Real Estate, 2^nd edition introduces readers to the economic fundamentals and emerging issues in housing markets.

Price: $73.99

Improving inclusive innovation outcomes (Lessons from post-industrial and post-conflict cities)

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:20:12 +0000

This book describes the Improving Inclusive Innovation Outcomes (i3o) research programme (2022–25), which focuses on inclusive innovation in urban innovation districts: geographical concentrations of assets and amenities designed to deliver economic growth for their host cities.

Price: $46.99

Violence Against Women and the Economy (Economic and Social Implications)

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:25:10 +0000

The issue of violence against women (VAW) has remained largely outside the purview of the economic and developmental policy arena. This book builds on a pioneering methodology developed by the authors to translate the impacts of VAW at the individual level to the macroeconomic and societal leve..

Price: $60.99

The Opportunity Map (How to Close the Divide Between Inequality and Prosperity)

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:14:11 +0000

A revelatory account of inequality in America offering a bold new solution grounded in local success

It’s a refrain that we hear all the time: if only the United States could be more like the Nordics on welfare, the Japanese on high-speed rail, or the British on healthca..

Price: $32.00