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Urban Economics (McGraw-Hill Series in Urban Economics) Reviews

The Seventh edition of Urban Economics continues to be the market leading textbook due to its thorough content and concise writing style. The new edition continues to cover urban economics as the discipline that lies at the intersection of geography and economics. Urban Economics incorporates the remarkable progress in the field of urban economics from the last fifteen years. It also explores the location decisions of utility-maximizing households and profit-maximizing firms, and it shows how these decisions cause the formation of cities of different size and shape.

The framework of this edition continues to be divided into six sections:

-Part I explains why cities exist and what causes hem to grow or shrink

-Part II examines the market forces that shape cities and the role of government in determining land-use patterns

-Part III looks at the urban transportation system

-Part IV uses a model of the rational criminal to explore the causes of urban crime and its spatial consequences

-Part V explains the unique features of the housing market and examines the effects of government housing policies

-Part VI explains the rationale for our fragmented system of local government and explores the responses of local governments to intergovernmental grants and the responses of taxpayers to local taxes.

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Dilemmas of Urban Economic Development: Issues in Theory and Practice

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Assessing state-of-the-art urban economic development, this book addresses such pertinent issues as the importance of `quality of life’ in location decisions, and whether industry targetting is a viable economic development strategy. Each chapter is followed by commentaries – one written by an academic addressing research methodology, the other by a practitioner addressing both the question and the evidence. Each chapter’s author then responds to the issues raised b… More >>

Dilemmas of Urban Economic Development: Issues in Theory and Practice

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