Master's Thesis from the year 2022 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: B, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh (School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society), language: English, abstract: This dissertation aims to evaluate the potential of high-rise residential real estate to provide affordable housing in urban areas as a response to the growing population. The city of Vancouver was selected as a case study. Beginning with an analysis of Vancouver’s housing market, three important factors that mainly influence success or failure of new high-rise residential real estate were identified and their validity reviewed. The results indicate that in order for high-rise residential real estate to be a part of the solution to overcome housing shortages, it must be supported by a clear set of policies and a framework that assures an adequate supply of affordable units. The needs of the local population need to be considered appropriately (suitability), and a certain level of liveability needs to be retained to avoid overcrowded or underused urban areas. The populations of urban areas are expected to grow over the coming decades. Consequently, if demand exceeds supply, housing costs are likely to rise, and the portion of disposable income that needs to be spent on housing will rise.

Examines the role that brownfields redevelopment is playing and can play in our quest for sustainability, focusing on efforts in the US and Canada. This book looks at how brownfields are used as spaces for developing an array of residential, recreational, and employment-oriented projects that have breathed new life into the urban environment.

Contemporary Business, Third Canadian Edition, is a comprehensive introductory course. Rooted in the basics of business, this course provides students a foundation upon which to build a greater understanding of current business practices and issues that affect their lives. A wide variety of global issues, ideas, industries, technologies, and career insights are presented in a straightforward, application-based format. Written in a conversational style and edited for plain language, Contemporary Business ensure readability for all students, including students for whom English is their second language. The goal of this course is to improve a student’s ability to evaluate and provide solutions to today’s global business challenges and ultimately to thrive in today’s fast-paced business environment.

While urban settlements are the drivers of the global economy and centres of learning, culture, and innovation and nations rely on competitive dynamic regions for their economic, social, and environmental objectives, urban centres and regions face a myriad of challenges that impact the ways in which people live and work, create wealth, and interact and connect with places. Rapid urbanisation is resulting in urban sprawl, rising emissions, urban poverty and high unemployment rates, housing affordability issues, lack of urban investment, low urban financial and governance capacities, rising inequality and urban crimes, environmental degradation, increasing vulnerability to natural disasters and so forth. At the regional level, low employment, low wage growth, scarce financial resources, climate change, waste and pollution, and rising urban peri-urban competition etc. are impacting the ability of regions to meet socio-economic development goals while protecting biodiversity. The response to these challenges has typically been the application of inadequate or piecemeal solutions, often as a result of fragmented decision-making and competing priorities, with numerous economic, environmental, and social consequences. In response, there is a growing movement towards viewing cities and regions as complex and sociotechnical in nature with people and communities interacting with one another and with objects, such as roads, buildings, transport links etc., within a range of urban and regional settings or contexts. This comprehensive MRW will provide readers with expert interdisciplinary knowledge on how urban centres and regions in locations of varying climates, lifestyles, income levels, and stages development are creating synergies and reducing trade-offs in the development of resilient, resource-efficient, environmentally friendly, liveable, socially equitable, integrated, and technology-enabled centres and regions.