Urban Economics and Real Estate Markets or Process Plant Layout and Piping Design

Urban Economics and Real Estate Markets

Author: Denise DiPasqual

This up-to-date, highly-accessible book presents a unique combination of both economic theory and real estate applications, providing readers with the tools and techniques needed to understand the operation of urban real estate markets. It examines residential and non-residential real estate markets—from the perspectives of both macro- and micro-economics—as well as the role of government in real estate markets.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Ch. 1	The Property and Capital Markets	1
Ch. 2	The Operation of Property Markets: A Micro and Macro Approach	22
Ch. 3	The Urban Land Market: Rents and Prices	35
Ch. 4	The Urban Housing Market: Structural Attributes and Density	60
Ch. 5	Firm Site Selection, Employment Decentralization, and Multicentered Cities	91
Ch. 6	Retail Location and Market Competition	124
Ch. 7	Economic Growth and Metropolitan Real Estate Markets	149
Ch. 8	The Market for Housing Units: Households, Prices, and Financing	182
Ch. 9	The Market for Housing Services: Moving, Sales, and Vacancy	216
Ch. 10	The Cyclical Behavior of Metropolitan Housing Markets	242
Ch. 11	The Operation of Nonresidential Property Markets	269
Ch. 12	Econometric Analysis of Metropolitan Office and Industrial Markets	293
Ch. 13	Local Governments, Property Taxes, and Real Estate Markets	319
Ch. 14	Public Goods, Externalities, and Development Regulation	348
	Index	371

See also: Management of Technology or Medieval Cities

Process Plant Layout and Piping Design

Author: Ed Bausbacher

Based on the authors' collective 65 years of experience in the engineering construction industry, this profusely illustrated, comprehensive guidebook presents tried-and-true workable methods and rules of thumb for plant layout and piping design for the process industries. Content is organized and presented for quick-reference on-the-job or for systematic study of specific topics.

Presents general concepts and principles of plant layout -- from basic terminology and input requirements to deliverables; deals with specific pieces of equipment and their most efficient layout in the overall plant design configuration; addresses the plant layout requirements for the most common process unit equipment; covers piping requirements for the entire plant as well as all equipment types; and considers the computerized tools that are now available to help plant layout and piping designers. Features more than 640 illustrations of equipment, piping and other components of processing facility -- and their configurations. MARKETS: For mechanical and chemical engineers working for engineering construction as well as process manufacturing companies with responsibility for plant layout, piping, and construction; and for engineering students.