As a project undertaken before, during and in the aftermath of a global pandemic, The Place Economy Volume 3 represents an increased appreciation of our need as humans for place and community. Spanning 80-plus stories, featuring the work of more than 100 global experts, you will find a celebration of the people, places and ideas that make cities great, alongside close examination of the barriers and challenges still facing communities in Australia and abroad. As with Volume 1 and 2, every story here presents compelling evidence of the better return on investment that occurs for developers and communities alike when insightful placemaking underpins a vision.

This volume presents six new papers on environmental and energy economics and policy in the United States. Rebecca Davis, J. Scott Holladay, and Charles Sims analyze recent trends in and forecasts of coal-fired power plant retirements with and without new climate policy. Severin Borenstein and James Bushnell examine the efficiency of pricing for electricity, natural gas, and gasoline. James Archsmith, Erich Muehlegger, and David Rapson provide a prospective analysis of future pathways for electric vehicle adoption. Kenneth Gillingham considers the consequences of such pathways for the design of fuel vehicle economy standards. Frank Wolak investigates the long-term resource adequacy in wholesale electricity markets with significant intermittent renewables. Finally, Barbara Annicchiarico, Stefano Carattini, Carolyn Fischer, and Garth Heutel review the state of research on the interactions between business cycles and environmental policy.

The first instalment of The Place Economy reveals the real world social and economic benefits of effective placemaking, exploring the benefits for developers and investors as well as broader societal outcomes. In this book, you will discover in-depth case studies and expert voices from Australia and 10 other countries, including Korea, Singapore, the United States, England, Denmark, Holland, New Zealand, China and Belgium. Together, across 408 pages, our contributors – from fields such as planning, architecture, materials, green space, amenities and cultural connections – present a picture of the prosperity we can all enjoy, as industries, as businesses and, most importantly, as people, if we get to work now.

Beiträge: Stefanos Leonardos and Constandina Koki, Political Systems and Indicators: Change and Continuity in Germany and Greece ; Emmanouil M.L. Economou, The Reconstruction of the Argo and the Revival of the Myth of the Argonauts ; Maria Michela Sassi, The Medea Syndrome ; Barbara Klose-Ullmann, The Black Medea: An Introduction ; Manfred J. Holler and George Tridimas, Antigone versus Creon: Hölderlin, Brecht, and a Game-theoretical Exercise ; Patrick McNutt, Spectators to Obedience During Covid-19: Antigone, Vladimir and Estragon

In Volume 2 of The Place Economy our attention travels from the macro to the micro – from nations to neighbourhoods, countries to communities. Close to 60 experts from eight different countries explore what can be achieved via high-quality visioning, placemaking, planning and design. We examine how spaces are used, analysing the things required to meet community needs, from residents and visitors to commercial entities and private individuals. We give detailed attention to the role place branding plays in enhancing outcomes at all levels and discover the various skills and disciplines required when creating destinations that meet the needs of different people across various geographic and cultural places.

Beiträge: Christian Jokinen, Germany’s Revolutionizing Strategies in 1914-1918 and the Secret Comrades-in-arms of the Finnish Jäger * Vesa Vares, The Kingdom That Never Was: Germany, Finland, and the Finnish Monarchist Project of 1918 * Detlev Pleiss, Finnish Soldiers Facing Fehrbellin: The Battle of Rathenow * Pirkko Koski, Hella Wuolijoki, Bertolt Brecht, and Multi-layered National Identity* Timo Airaksinen, Socrates Meets the Crocodile, or The Ironies of Brecht’s and Wuolijoki’s Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti * Klaus Reichel, Summer 1940 in Iitti: Hella Wuolijoki and Bertolt Brecht, *Judith Köbler*, Mirroring Society through the Constitutional Lens: Finland and Germany

This collection brings together a comprehensive selection of documents from the history of US and Canadian economic thought from the 17th century through to 1900.