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.

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.

CITY AND COUNTRY: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLECTION

Editor's Introduction

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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

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John K. Whitaker

Modeling Agglomeration and Dispersion in City and Country: Gunnar Myrdal, Francois Perroux, and the New Economic Geography

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Stephen J. Meardon

City and Country: Lessons from European Economic Thought

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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

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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

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Norman Sedgley

Bruce Elmslie

Zipf's Law for Cities and Beyond: The Case of Denmark

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Thorbjorn Knudsen

The Structure of Sprawl: Identifying and Characterizing Employment Centers in Polycentric Metropolitan Areas

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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

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David L. McKee

Yosra A. McKee

Manufacturing and Rural Economies in the United States: The Role of Nondurable Producers, Labor Costs and State Taxes

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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

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H. William Batt

Cordinating Opposite Approaches to Managing Urban Growth and Curbing Sprawl: A Synthesis

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Thomas L. Daniels

Leapfrogging, Urban Sprawl, and Growth Management: Phoenix, 1950--2000

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Carol E. Heim

A City without Slums: Urban Renewal, Public Housing, and Downtown Revitalization in Kansas City, Missouri

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Kevin Fox Gotham

A City Divided by Political Philosophies: Residential Development in a Bi-Provincial City in Canada

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Gura Bhargava

PART IV. THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY

International Sister-Cities: Bridging the Global-Local Divide

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Rolf D. Cremer

Anne de Bruin

Ann Dupuis

The Completely Decentralized City: The Case for Benefits Based Public Finance

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Fred E. Foldvary

Index

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