City and Country An Interdisciplinary Collection

by Moss, Laurence S.

• ISBN13: 9780631228844
• ISBN10: 0631228845
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-08-08
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

The sixteen ground-breaking essays in this volume examine the processes by which cities grow and how current public policy, both in the area of zoning and town planning respond to this process.

Author Biography

Laurence S. Moss now serves as editor of The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. He is a Professor of Economics at Babson College and has served as the President of the History of Economics Society. He is also a well-known historian of economic thought. Moss is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association and now serves on the Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

Table of Contents

CITY AND COUNTRY: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLECTION
Editor's Introduction	1	(10)
Laurence S. Moss
PART I. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE AGGLOMERATION APPROACH TO ECONOMIC GROWTH
Henry George and Classical Growth Theory: A Significant Contribution to Modeling Scale Economies	11	(14)
John K. Whitaker
Modeling Agglomeration and Dispersion in City and Country: Gunnar Myrdal, Francois Perroux, and the New Economic Geography	25	(34)
Stephen J. Meardon
City and Country: Lessons from European Economic Thought	59	(20)
Jurgen G. Backhaus
Gerrit Meijer
Making the Country Work for the City: Von Thunen's Ideas in Geography, Agricultural Economics and the Sociology of Agriculture	79	(22)
Daniel Block
E. Melanie DuPuis
PART II. NEW RESEARCH ON SIZE, GEOGRAPHY, SPECIALIZATION AND PRODUCTIVITY
Agglomeration and Congestion in the Economics of Ideas and Technological Change	101	(22)
Norman Sedgley
Bruce Elmslie
Zipf's Law for Cities and Beyond: The Case of Denmark	123	(24)
Thorbjorn Knudsen
The Structure of Sprawl: Identifying and Characterizing Employment Centers in Polycentric Metropolitan Areas	147	(24)
Nathan B. Anderson
William T. Bogart
Edge Cities and the Viability of Metropolitan Economies: Contributions to Flexibility and External Linkages by New Urban Service Environments	171	(14)
David L. McKee
Yosra A. McKee
Manufacturing and Rural Economies in the United States: The Role of Nondurable Producers, Labor Costs and State Taxes	185	(10)
Mark Jelavich
PART III. CASE STUDIES: LAND VALUE TAXATION AND REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT
Value Capture as a Policy Tool in Transportation Economics: An Exploration in Public Finance in the Tradition of Henry George	195	(34)
H. William Batt
Cordinating Opposite Approaches to Managing Urban Growth and Curbing Sprawl: A Synthesis	229	(16)
Thomas L. Daniels
Leapfrogging, Urban Sprawl, and Growth Management: Phoenix, 1950--2000	245	(40)
Carol E. Heim
A City without Slums: Urban Renewal, Public Housing, and Downtown Revitalization in Kansas City, Missouri	285	(32)
Kevin Fox Gotham
A City Divided by Political Philosophies: Residential Development in a Bi-Provincial City in Canada	317	(60)
Gura Bhargava
PART IV. THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
International Sister-Cities: Bridging the Global-Local Divide	377	(26)
Rolf D. Cremer
Anne de Bruin
Ann Dupuis
The Completely Decentralized City: The Case for Benefits Based Public Finance	403	(16)
Fred E. Foldvary
Index	419