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.
PROVISIONAL CONTENTS
Volume I: Urban and Regional Labour and Housing Markets
Part 1: The Individual and Inter-Regional Migration
1. Larry A. Sjaastad, ‘The Costs and Returns of Human Migration’, Journal of Political Economy, 1962, 70, 5, 80–93.
2. Aba Schwartz, ‘Migration, Age, and Education’, Journal of Political Economy, 1976, 84, 4, 701–19.
3. Julie DaVanzo, ‘Repeat Migration in the United States: Who Moves Back and Who Moves On?’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 1983, 65, 4, 552–9.
Part 2: Inter-Regional Migration Flows
4. Michael J. Greenwood, ‘Human Migration: Theory, Models, and Empirical Studies’, Journal of Regional Science, 1985, 25, 4, 521–44.
5. Philip E. Graves, ‘Migration and Climate’, Journal of Regional Science, 1980, 20, 2, 227–38.
6. Philip E. Graves and Peter R. Mueser, ‘The Role of Equilibrium and Disequilibrium in Modeling Regional Growth and Decline: A Critical Reassessment’, Journal of Regional Science, 1993, 33, 1, 69–84.
7. A. J. Fielding, ‘Migration and the Metropolis: Recent Research on the Causes of Migration to Southeast England’, Progress in Human Geography, 1993, 17, 195–212.
8. Alan W. Evans, ‘Interregional Equilibrium: A Transatlantic View’, Journal of Regional Science, 1993, 33, 1, 89–97.
9. Gary L. Hunt, ‘Equilibrium and Disequilibrium in Migration Modelling’, Regional Studies, 1993, 27, 341–9.
Part 3: Urban and Regional Labour Markets
10. Robert H. Topel, ‘Local Labor Markets’, Journal of Political Economy, 1986, 94, 3, 2, 111–43.
11. Michelle J. White, ‘Urban Commuting Journeys are not "Wasteful"’, Journal of Political Economy, 1988, 96, 5, 1097–110.
12. Robert H. Topel, ‘Regional Labor Markets and the Determinants of Wage Inequality’, American Economic Review, 1994, 84, 2, 17–22.
13. Mark D. Partridge and Dan S. Rickman, ‘The Dispersion of the US State Unemployment Rates: The Role of the Market and Non-market’, Regional Studies, 1997, 31, 6, 593–607.
Part 4: Urban Amenities, Housing, and Public Goods
14. Charles M. Tiebout, ‘A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures’, Journal of Political Economy, 1956, 64, 5, 416–24.
15. Timothy J. Bartik, ‘The Estimation of Demand Parameters in Hedonic Price Models’, Journal of Political Economy, 1987, 95, 1, 81–8.
16. Jennifer Roback, ‘Wages, Rents, and the Quality of Life’, Journal of Political Economy, 1982, 90, 6, 1257–78.
17. Paul Cheshire and Stephen Sheppard, ‘On the Price of Land and the Value of Amenities’, Economica, 1995, 62, 246, 247–67.
Volume II: Regional Modelling and Regional Dynamics
Part 5: Spatial Econometrics, Statistics, and Interactions
18. Daniel P. McMillen, ‘Probit with Spatial Autocorrelation’, Journal of Regional Science, 1992, 32, 3, 335–48.
19. L. Anselin, ‘Local Indicators of Spatial Association-LISA’, Geographical Analysis, 1995, 27, 2, 93–115.
20. J. P. LeSage, ‘Bayesian Estimation of Limited Dependent-Variable Spatial Autoregressive Models’, Geographical Analysis, 2000, 32, 1, 19–35.
21. A. Cliff, ‘Testing for Spatial Autocorrelation among Regression Residuals’, Geographical Analysis, 1972, 4, 3, 267–84.
22. A. S. Fotheringham and D. W. S. Wong, ‘The modifiable Areal Unit Problem in Multivariate Statistical Analysis’, Environment and Planning A, 1991, 23, 7, 1025–44.
23. A. G. Wilson, ‘A Statistical Theory of Spatial Distribution Models’, Transportation Research, 1967, 1, 3, 253–69.
Part 6: Regional Multipliers and Input-Output Analysis
24. F. Harrigan, J. McGilvray, and I. McNicoll, ‘Comparison of Regional and National Technical Structures’, Economic Journal, 1980, 90, 360, 795–810.
25. R. C. Jensen, G. R. West, and G. J. D. Hewingst, ‘The Study of Regional Economic Structure using Input-Output Tables’, Regional Studies, 1988, 22, 3, 209–20.
26. Michael Sonis and Geoffrey J. D. Hewings, ‘Hierarchies of Regional Sub-Structures and their Multipliers within Input–Output Systems: Miyazawa Revisited’, Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, 1993, 34, 1, 33–44.
27. Erik Dietzenbacher, ‘Interregional Multipliers: Looking Backward, Looking Forward’, Regional Studies, 2002, 36, 2, 125–36.
Part 7: Regional Growth and Convergence
28. Robert J. Barro and Xavier Sala-i-Martin, ‘Convergence’, Journal of Political Economy, 1992, 100, 2, 223–51.
29. Danny T. Quah, ‘Regional Convergence Clusters across Europe’, European Economic Review, 1996, 40, 3–5, 951–8.
30. Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot, ‘Spatial Perspectives on New Theories of Economic Growth’, Annals of Regional Science, 1988, 32, 1, 7–37.
31. B. Fingleton, ‘Estimates of Time to Economic Convergence: An Analysis of Regions of the European Union’, International Regional Science Review, 1999, 22, 1, 5–34.
Part 8: Housing and Real Estate Markets
32. Eric A. Hanushek and John M. Quigley, ‘The Dynamics of the Housing Market: A Stock Adjustment Model of Housing Consumption’, Journal of Urban Economics, 1979, 6, 1, 90–111.
33. Jan K. Brueckner, ‘Labor Mobility and the Incidence of the Residential Property Tax’, Journal of Urban Economics, 1981, 10, 2, 173–82.
34. Richard Arnott, Russell Davidson, and David Pines, ‘Housing Quality, Maintenance and Rehabilitation’, Review of Economic Studies, 1983, 50, 3, 467–94.
35. John Muellbauer and Anthony Murphy, ‘Booms and Busts in the UK Housing Market’, Economic Journal, 1997, 107, 445, 1701–27.
Volume III: Industrial Location: Clustering, Knowledge, and Investment
Part 9: Location-Theory
36. N. Sakashita, ‘Regional Allocation of Public Investment’, Papers in Regional Science, 1967, 19, 1, 161–82.
37. Stephen M. Miller and Oscar W. Jensen, ‘Location and the Theory of Production: A Review, Summary and Critique of Recent Contributions’, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 1978, 8, 2, 117–28.
38. Claude d’Aspremont and Jacques H. Dreze, ‘On the Stability of Dynamic Processes in Economic Theory’, Econometrica, 1979, 47, 3, 733–7.
39. Philip McCann, ‘Rethinking the Economics of Location and Agglomeration’, Urban Studies, 1995, 32, 3, 563–78.
40. R. Church and C. ReVelle, ‘The Maximal Covering Location Problem’, Papers in Regional Science, 1974, 32, 1, 101–18.
Part 10: Innovation, Knowledge, and Clusters
41. Adam B. Jaffe, Manuel Trajtenberg, and Rebecca Henderson, ‘Geographic Localization of Knowledge Spillovers as Evidenced by Patent Citations’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1993, 108, 3, 577–98.
42. David B. Audretsch and Maryann P. Feldman, ‘R&D Spillovers and the Geography of Innovation and Production’, American Economic Review, 1996, 86, 3, 630–40.
43. Stefano Breschi, ‘Localised Knowledge Spillovers vs. Innovative Milieux: Knowledge "Tacitness" Reconsidered’, Papers in Regional Science, 2001, 80, 3, 255–73.
Part 11: Clusters and Agglomeration
44. Benjamin Chinitz, ‘Contrasts in Agglomeration: New York and Pittsburgh’, American Economic Review, 1961, 51, 2, 279–89.
45. Edward L. Glaeser et al., ‘Growth in Cities’, Journal of Political Economy, 1992, 100, 6, 1126–52.
46. Vernon Henderson, Ari Kuncoro, and Matt Turner, ‘Industrial Development in Cities’, Journal of Political Economy, 1995, 103, 5, 1067–90.
47. Ian R. Gordon and Philip McCann, ‘Industrial Clusters: Complexes, Agglomeration and/or Social Networks?’, Urban Studies, 2000, 37, 3, 513–32.
48. Gilles Duranton and Diego Puga, ‘Nursery Cities: Urban Diversity, Process Innovation, and the Life Cycle of Products’, American Economic Review, 2001, 91, 5, 1454–77.
Part 12: Regional Trade, Money, and Investment
49. A. P. Thirlwall, ‘Regional Problems are "Balance-of-Payments" Problems’, Regional Studies, 1980, 14, 5, 419–25.
50. Sheila C. Dow, ‘The Treatment of Money in Regional Economics’, Journal of Regional Science, 1987, 27, 1, 13–24.
51. Erik Verhoef, Peter Nijkamp, and Piet Rietveld, ‘Second-Best Congestion Pricing: The Case of an Untolled Alternative’, Journal of Urban Economics, 1996, 40, 3, 279–302.
52. Marlon G. Boarnet, ‘Spillovers and the Locational Effects of Public Infrastructure’, Journal of Regional Science, 1998, 38, 3, 381–400.
53. Andrew F. Haughwou, ‘Public Infrastructure Investments, Productivity and Welfare in Fixed Geographic Areas’, Journal of Public Economics, 2002, 83, 3, 405–28.
Volume IV: Urban and Regional Structure and Growth
Part 13: The Spatial Distribution of Activity
54. B. Curtis Eaton and Richard G. Lipsey, ‘An Economic Theory of Central Places’, Economic Journal, 1982, 92, 365, 56–72.
55. John B. Parr, ‘Interaction in an Urban System: Aspects of Trade and Commuting’, Economic Geography, 1987, 63, 3, 223–40.
56. Glenn Ellison and Edward L. Glaeser, ‘Geographic Concentration in US Manufacturing Industries: A Dartboard Approach’, Journal of Political Economy, 1997, 105, 5, 889–927.
57. Gilles Duranton and Henry G. Overman, ‘Testing for Localization Using Micro-Geographic Data’, Review of Economic Studies, 2005, 72, 4, 1077–106.
Part 14: Growth and Size Distribution of Cities
58. Xavier Gabaix, ‘Zipf’s Law for Cities: An Explanation’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1999, 114, 3, 739–67.
59. Edward L. Glaeser, José A. Scheinkman, and Andrei Shleifer, ‘Economic Growth in a Cross-Section of Cities’, Journal of Monetary Economics, 1995, 36, 1, 117–43.
60. Antonio Ciccone and Robert E. Hall, ‘Productivity and the Density of Economic Activity’, American Economic Review, 1996, 86, 1, 54–70.
61. Edward L. Glaeser and David C. Mare, ‘Cities and Skills’, Journal of Labor Economics, 2001, 19, 2, 316–42.
Part 15: New Economic Geography
62. Paul Krugman, ‘Increasing Returns and Economic Geography’, Journal of Political Economy, 1991, 99, 3, 483–99.
63. Diego Puga, ‘The Rise and Fall of Regional Inequalities’, European Economic Review, 1999, 43, 2, 303–34.
64. Paul Krugman and Anthony J. Venables, ‘Globalization and the Inequality of Nations’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1995, 110, 4, 857–80.
65. G. I. P. Ottaviano, T. Tabuchi, and J.-F. Thisse, ‘Agglomeration and Trade Revisited’, International Economic Review, 2002, 43, 409–35.
66. Stephen Redding and Anthony J. Venables, ‘Economic Geography and International Inequality’, Journal of International Economics, 2004, 62, 1, 53–82.
Part 16: Urban Economics
67. William C. Wheaton, ‘Income and Urban Residence: An Analysis of Consumer Demand for Location’, American Economic Review, 1977, 67, 4, 620–31.
68. Richard J. Arnott and Frank D. Lewis, ‘The Transition of Land to Urban Use’, Journal of Political Economy, 1979, 87, 1, 161–9.
69. Dennis R. Capozza and Robert W. Helsley, ‘The Fundamentals of Land Prices and Urban Growth’, Journal of Urban Economics, 1989, 26, 3, 295–306.
70. Stuart S. Rosenthal and William C. Strange, ‘The Determinants of Agglomeration’, Journal of Urban Economics, 2001, 50, 2, 191–229.
Biography
Philip McCann is Professor of Urban and Regional Economics at the University of Reading, UK. He is the author of the leading textbook in the field (OUP).
