Analytical Urban Economics (Modern Classics in Regional Science series, 3) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1858981107 ISBN 13: 9781858981109

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1997

Synopsis

A collection of key articles and papers on urban economic theory published during the last 20 years, focusing on a branch of urban economy theory that attempts to analyze economic behavior in cities by referring to geographical space. Contains sections on the standard model, the distribution of income and utility over space, externalities, relaxing the assumptions of the standard model, transportation, optimal city sizes, spatial structure implications, dynamics, and alternatives to monocentric models. For professionals and graduate students. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

About this title

About the Author:

Edited by Harry W. Richardson, Honorary Doctorate, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico, Kenneth Button, University Professor, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, US, Peter Nijkamp, Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland and JADS, `s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, Heonsoo Park assisted.

Review:

`This book will be an essential reference text for urban economists and will be important background reading for graduate courses on urban economics.' -- Public Administration, Development, and Environment

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1858981107
• ISBN 13: 9781858981109
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 720
• Editor: Richardson Harry W., Button Kenneth, Nijkamp Peter