City and Country

An Interdisciplinary Collection
Herausgeber: Moss, Laurence S

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Produktbeschreibung

City and Country provides a comprehensive examination of the processes associated with the growth and expansion of a city and how current public policy, both in the areas of zoning and town planning, respond to this process. Some of the topics of the book include: * a novel statistical method for identifying employment centers in the polycentric city. * several essays deal with the amazing Zipf's law. * detailed case studies describing the experiences of major cities such as Phoenix, Arizona; Kansas City, Missouri; and Lloydminster, Canada. * historical papers challenging Paul Krugman's claim that an eoncomics dealing with the location of production had to wait until the end of the last century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 676g
• ISBN-13: 9780631228851
• ISBN-10: 0631228853
• Artikelnr.: 21337103

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

City and Country: an Interdisciplinary Collection:.
1. Editor's Introduction: Laurence S. Moss.
Part I: Historical Perspectives on the Agglomeration Approach to Economic
Growth:.
1. Henry George and Classical Growth Theory: A Significant Contribution to
Modeling Scale Economies : John Whitaker.
2. Modeling Agglomeration and Dispersion in City and Country Gunnar Myrdal,
François Perroux, and the New Economic Geography: Stephen J. Meardon.
3. City and Country: Lessons from European Economic Thought: Jürgen G.
Backhaus; Gerrit Meijer.
4. Making the Country Work for the City: Von Thünen's Ideas in Geography,
Agricultural Economics and the Sociology of Agriculture: Daniel Block, E.
Melanie DuPuis.
Part II: New Research on Size, Geography, Specialization and Productivity:.
1. Agglomeration and Congestionin the Economics of Ideas and Technological
Change: Norman Sedgley; Bruce Elmslie.
2. Zipf's Law for Cities and Beyond: The Case of Denmark: Thorbjørn
Knudsen.
3. The Structure of Sprawl: Identifying and Characterizing Employment
Centers in Polycentric Metropolitan Areas: Nathan B. Anderson, William T.
Bogart.
4. Edge Cities and the Viability of Metropolitan Economies: Contributions
to Flexibility and External Linkages by New Urban Service Environments:
David L. McKee; Yosra A. McKee.
5. Manufacturing and Rural Economies in the United States: The Role of
Nondurable Producers, Labor Costs and State Taxes: Mark Jelavich.
Part III: Case Studies: Land Value Taxation and Real Estate Development:.
1. Value Capture as a Policy Tool in Transportation Economics: An
Exploration in Public Finance in the Tradition of Henry George: H. William
Batt.
2. Coordinating Opposite Approaches to Managing Urban Growth and Curbing
Sprawl: A Synthesis: Thomas L. Daniels.
3. Leapfrogging, Urban Sprawl, and Growth Management: Phoenix, 1950-2000:
Carol E. Heim.
4. A City without Slums: Urban Renewal, Public Housing, and Downtown
Revitalization in Kansas City, Missouri: Kevin Fox Gotham.
5. A City Divided by Political Philosophies: Residential Development in a
Bi-Provincial City in Canada: Gura Bhargava.
Part IV: The Transformation of the City in the 21st Century:.
1. International Sister-Cities: Bridging the Global-Local Divide: Rolf D.
Cremer; Anne de Bruin; Ann Dupuis.
2. The Completely Decentralized City: The Case for Benefits Based Public
Finance: Fed E. Foldvary.
Index.