Preface Acknowledgements Part 1 Fundamental Concepts 1. Introduction 2. The Friction of Distance 3. Agglomeration 4. Markets 5. Spatial Interaction 6. Resources and the Environment 7. The Production Technology Part II: The Multiregional Economy 8. Specialization and Trade 9. Interregional Movements of Labor and Capital 10. Polarization in the Multiregional Economy 11. Scale economies and imperfect competition in the multiregional economy 12. Unemployment and Regional Policy Part III: Location Theory 13. Transportation and Location 14. Scale Economies and Input Substitution 15. Labor, Rent, Taxes and Subsidies 16. Interrelated Location Choices Part IV: Markets for Space 17. Agricultural Land Use 18 Urban Land Use: The Monocentric City 19. Urban Sprawl and the Polycentric City Part V: Systems of Cities 20. Urbanization 21 City Size Distribution and Urban Hierarchies 22. Central Place Theory 23. Network Urban Systems Part VI: Globalization and the Knowledge Economy 25. The Globalization of Production Systems 24. International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment 26. The Knowledge Economy
Biography
William P. Anderson is Ontario Research Chair in Cross-Border Transportation Policy, University of Windsor, Canada.
