Urban and Regional Economics, (4 Volume Set)

Urban and regional economics encompasses both the economics of geography and spatial economics to focus on the growth, behaviour, and economic performance of cities and regions. Over the last two decades, urban and regional economics has grown dramatically - both as a taught subject and as an active research area - and as work in the subdiscipline flourishes as never before, this new four-volume collection from Routledge meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of the subject’s vast literature and the continuing explosion in research output.

The collection, part of Routledge’s Critical Concepts in Economics series, is edited by Philip McCann, author of the leading textbook in the field. He has carefully organized the collection to give users not only a thorough understanding of current ideas, but also a detailed exploration of the origin and development of these critical concepts to situate them within a number of rich analytical research traditions.

Urban and Regional Economics is fully indexed and includes a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor. It is an essential collection destined to be valued by urban and regional economists - and those working in cognate areas - as a vital research resource.

Volume I : Urban and Regional Labour and Housing Markets

Part 1 : The Individual and Inter-Regional Migration
Chapter 1 : The Costs and Returns of Human Migration’, Journal of Political Economy, 1962
Chapter 2 : Migration, Age, and Education’, Journal of Political Economy, 1976
Chapter 3 : Repeat Migration in The United States : Who Moves Back and Who Moves On?’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 1983

Part 2 : Inter-Regional Migration Flows
Chapter 4 : Human Migration : Theory, Models, and Empirical Studies’, Journal of Regional Science, 1985
Chapter 5 : Migration and Climate’, Journal of Regional Science, 1980
Chapter 6 : The Role of Equilibrium and Disequilibrium in Modeling Regional Growth and Decline : A Critical Reassessment’, Journal of Regional Science, 1993
Chapter 7 : Migration and The Metropolis : Recent Research on The Causes of Migration to SouTheast England’, Progress in Human Geography, 1993,
Chapter 8 : Interregional Equilibrium : A Transatlantic View’, Journal of Regional Science, 1993
Chapter 9 : Equilibrium and Disequilibrium in Migration Modelling’, Regional Studies, 1993

Part 3 : Urban and Regional Labour Markets
Chapter 10 : Local Labor Markets’, Journal of Political Economy, 1986
Chapter 11 : Urban Commuting Journeys are not "Wasteful"’, Journal of Political Economy, 1988
Chapter 12 : Regional Labor Markets and The Determinants of Wage Inequality’, American Economic Review, 1994
Chapter 13 : he Dispersion of The US State Unemployment Rates : The Role of The Market and Non-market’, Regional Studies, 1997

Part 4 : Urban Amenities, Housing, and Public Goods
Chapter 14 : A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures’, Journal of Political Economy, 1956
Chapter 15 : The Estimation of Demand Parameters in Hedonic Price Models’, Journal of Political Economy, 1987
Chapter 16 : Wages, Rents, and The Quality of Life’, Journal of Political Economy, 1982
Chapter 17 : On The Price of Land and The Value of Amenities’, Economica, 1995

Volume II : Regional Modelling and Regional Dynamics

Part 5 : Spatial Econometrics, Statistics, and Interactions
Chapter 18 : Probit with Spatial Autocorrelation’, Journal of Regional Science, 1992
Chapter 19 : Local Indicators of Spatial Association-LISA’, Geographical Analysis, 1995
Chapter 20 : Bayesian Estimation of Limited Dependent-Variable Spatial Autoregressive Models’, Geographical Analysis, 2000
Chapter 21 : Testing for Spatial Autocorrelation among Regression Residuals’, Geographical Analysis, 1972
Chapter 22 : The modifiable Areal Unit Problem in Multivariate Statistical Analysis’, Environment and Planning A, 1991
Chapter 23 : A Statistical Theory of Spatial Distribution Models’, Transportation Research, 1967

Part 6 : Regional Multipliers and Input-Output Analysis
Chapter 24 : Comparison of Regional and National Technical Structures’, Economic Journal, 1980
Chapter 25 : The Study of Regional Economic Structure using Input-Output Tables’, Regional Studies, 1988
Chapter 26 : Hierarchies of Regional Sub-Structures and Their Multipliers within Input–Output Systems : Miyazawa Revisited’, Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, 1993
Chapter 27 : Interregional Multipliers : Looking Backward, Looking Forward’, Regional Studies, 2002

Part 7 : Regional Growth and Convergence
Chapter 28 : Convergence’, Journal of Political Economy, 1992
Chapter 29 : Regional Convergence Clusters across Europe’, European Economic Review, 1996
Chapter 30 : Spatial Perspectives on New Theories of Economic Growth’, Annals of Regional Science, 1988
Chapter 31 : Estimates of Time to Economic Convergence : An Analysis of Regions of The European Union’, International Regional Science Review, 1999

Part 8 : Housing and Real Estate Markets
Chapter 32 : The Dynamics of The Housing Market : A Stock Adjustment Model of Housing Consumption’, Journal of Urban Economics, 1979
Chapter 33 : Labor Mobility and The Incidence of The Residential Property Tax’, Journal of Urban Economics, 1981
Chapter 34 : Housing Quality, Maintenance and Rehabilitation’, Review of Economic Studies, 1983
Chapter 35 : Booms and Busts in The UK Housing Market’, Economic Journal, 1997

Volume III : Industrial Location : Clustering, Knowledge, and Investment

Part 9 : Location-Theory
Chapter 36 : Regional Allocation of Public Investment’, Papers in Regional Science, 1967
Chapter 37 : Location and The Theory of Production : A Review, Summary and Critique of Recent Contributions’, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 1978
Chapter 38 : On The Stability of Dynamic Processes in Economic Theory’, Econometrica, 1979
Chapter 39 : Rethinking The Economics of Location and Agglomeration’, Urban Studies, 1995
Chapter 40 : The Maximal Covering Location Problem’, Papers in Regional Science, 1974

Part 10 : Innovation, Knowledge, and Clusters
Chapter 41 : Geographic Localization of Knowledge Spillovers as Evidenced by Patent Citations’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1993
Chapter 42 : R&D Spillovers and The Geography of Innovation and Production’, American Economic Review, 1996
Chapter 43 : Localised Knowledge Spillovers vs : Innovative Milieux : Knowledge "Tacitness" Reconsidered’, Papers in Regional Science, 2001

Part 11 : Clusters and Agglomeration
Chapter 44 : Contrasts in Agglomeration : New York and Pittsburgh’, American Economic Review, 1961
Chapter 45 : Growth in Cities’, Journal of Political Economy, 1992
Chapter 46 : Industrial Development in Cities’, Journal of Political Economy, 1995
Chapter 47 : Industrial Clusters : Complexes, Agglomeration and/or Social Networks?’, Urban Studies, 2000
Chapter 48 : Nursery Cities : Urban Diversity, Process Innovation, and The Life Cycle of Products’, American Economic Review, 2001

Part 12 : Regional Trade, Money, and Investment
Chapter 49 : Regional Problems are "Balance-of-Payments" Problems’, Regional Studies, 1980
Chapter 50 : The Treatment of Money in Regional Economics’, Journal of Regional Science, 1987
Chapter 51 : Second-Best Congestion Pricing : The Case of an Untolled Alternative’, Journal of Urban Economics, 1996
Chapter 52 : Spillovers and The Locational Effects of Public Infrastructure’, Journal of Regional Science, 1998
Chapter 53 : Public Infrastructure Investments, Productivity and Welfare in Fixed Geographic Areas’, Journal of Public Economics, 2002

Volume IV : Urban and Regional Structure and Growth

Part 13 : The Spatial Distribution of Activity
Chapter 54 : An Economic Theory of Central Places’, Economic Journal, 1982
Chapter 55 : Interaction in an Urban System : Aspects of Trade and Commuting’, Economic Geography, 1987
Chapter 56 : Geographic Concentration in US Manufacturing Industries : A Dartboard Approach’, Journal of Political Economy, 1997
Chapter 57 : Testing for Localization Using Micro-Geographic Data’, Review of Economic Studies, 2005

Part 14 : Growth and Size Distribution of Cities
Chapter 58 : Zipf’s Law for Cities : An Explanation’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1999
Chapter 59 : Economic Growth in a Cross-Section of Cities’, Journal of Monetary Economics, 1995
Chapter 60 : Productivity and The Density of Economic Activity’, American Economic Review, 1996
Chapter 61 : Cities and Skills’, Journal of Labor Economics, 2001

Part 15 : New Economic Geography
Chapter 62 : Increasing Returns and Economic Geography’, Journal of Political Economy, 1991
Chapter 63 : The Rise and Fall of Regional Inequalities’, European Economic Review, 1999
Chapter 64 : Globalization and The Inequality of Nations’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1995
Chapter 65 : Agglomeration and Trade Revisited’, International Economic Review, 2002
Chapter 66 : Economic Geography and International Inequality’, Journal of International Economics, 2004

Part 16 : Urban Economics
Chapter 67 : Income and Urban Residence : An Analysis of Consumer Demand for Location’, American Economic Review, 1977
Chapter 68 : The Transition of Land to Urban Use’, Journal of Political Economy, 1979
Chapter 69 : The Fundamentals of Land Prices and Urban Growth’, Journal of Urban Economics, 1989
Chapter 70 : The Determinants of Agglomeration’, Journal of Urban Economics, 2001