Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics

by Mills

• ISBN13: 9780444879707
• ISBN10: 0444879706
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1987-12-01
• Publisher: Elsevier Science

Summary

This second volume of the Handbook presents professional surveys of all the important topics in urban economics. The first section contains 6 surveys on locational analysis, the second, 5 surveys of specific urban markets, and the third part presents 5 surveys of government policy issues. The book brings together exhaustive research by distinguished scholars from many countries. It is the only complete survey volume of urban economics and should serve as a reference volume to scholars and graduate students for many years. For more information on the Handbooks in Economics series, please see our home page on http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/hes

Table of Contents

VOLUME I: REGIONAL ECONOMICS

P. Nijkamp

Advances in Regional Economics

P. Nijkamp

E.S. Mills

PART 1 - LOCATIONAL ANALYSIS

The Location of Production Activities

M.J. Beckmann

J.F. Thisse

Residential Mobility and Household Location Modelling

W.A.V. Clark

W.F.J. Van Lierop

Public Facility Location: A Multiregional and Multi-Authority Decision Context

B. Johansson

G. Leonardi

Spatial Equilibrium Analysis

T. Takayama

W.C. Labys

Regional Economic Dynamics

A.E. Andersson

R.E. Kuenne

PART 2 - REGIONAL ECONOMIC MODELS AND METHODS

Regional and Multiregional Economic Models: A Survey

P. Nijkamp

P. Rietveld

F. Snickars

Regional, Interregional and Multiregional Input--Output Analysis

G.J.D. Hewings

R.C. Jensen

Spatial Interaction, Transportation, and Interregional Commodity Flow Models

D.F. Batten

D.E. Boyce

Regional Econometric and Dynamic Models

R.J. Bennett

L. Hordijk

Qualitative Statistical Models for Regional Economic Analysis

N. Wrigley

F. Brouwer

PART 3 - REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND POLICY

Multiple Objective Decision Analysis in Regional Economics

P. Nijkamp

P. Rietveld

Regional Labor Market Analysis

A. Isserman

C. Taylor

S. Gerking

U. Schubert

Regional Energy and Environmental Analysis

T.R. Lakshmanan

R. Bolton

Innovation and Changes in Regional Structure

E.J. Malecki

P. Varaiya

Regional Policies in Developing Countries

H.W. Richardson

P.M. Townroe

VOLUME II: URBAN ECONOMICS

E.S. Mills

Advances in Urban Economics

E.S. Mills

P. Nijkamp

PART 1 - LOCATIONAL ANALYSIS

The Theory of Urban Residential Location

M. Straszheim

Theories of Urban Business Locations

K. Stahl

The Structure of Urban Equilibria: A Unified Treatment of the Muth-Mills Model

J.K. Brueckner

Computer Simulation Models of Urban Location

J.F. Kain

Dynamic Urban Models

T. Miyao

General Equilibrium Modeling of Systems of Cities

J.V. Henderson

PART 2 - SPECIFIC URBAN MARKETS

Economic Theory and Housing

R. Arnott

The Demand and Supply of Housing Service: A Critical Survey of the Empirical Literature

E.O. Olsen

Urban Transportation

M.E. Beesley

M.A. Kemp

Urban Public Facility Location

C. Revelle

Rural--Urban Migration in Developing Countries

D. Mazumdar

PART 3 - URBAN GOVERNMENT BEHAVIOR AND ISSUES

Theoretical Analysis of Local Public Economics

D.E. Wildasin

Financing Urban Public Services

R. Prud'Homme

Urban Amenities and Public Policy

T.J. Bartik

V.K. Smith

Urbanization in the Developing World: Patterns, Issues, and Policies

A.M. Hamer

J.F. Linn

City Size and Place as Policy Issues

G. Tolley

J. Crihfield