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Publisher
Blackwell Publishers, Inc
Publication Date
c2001
Language
English
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Editor's Introduction / Laurence S. Moss
Henry George and Classical Growth Theory: A Significant Contribution to Modeling Scale Economies / John K. Whitaker
Modeling Agglomeration and Dispersion in City and Country: Gunnar Myrdal, Francois Perroux, and the New Economic Geography / Stephen J. Meardon
City and Country: Lessons from European Economic Thought / Jurgen G. Backhaus and Gerrit Meijer
Making the Country Work for the City: Von Thunen's Ideas in Geography, Agricultural Economics and the Sociology of Agriculture / Daniel Block and E. Melanie DuPuis
Agglomeration and Congestion in the Economics of Ideas and Technological Change / Norman Sedgley and Bruce Elmslie
Zipfs Law for Cities and Beyond: The Case of Denmark / Thorbjorn Knudsen
Structure of Sprawl: Identifying and Characterizing Employment Centers in Polycentric Metropolitan Areas / Nathan B. Anderson and William T. Bogart
Edge Cities and the Viability of Metropolitan Economies: Contributions to Flexibility and External Linkages by New Urban Service Environments / David L. McKee and Yosra A. McKee
Manufacturing and Rural Economies in the United States: The Role of Nondurable Producers, Labor Costs and State Taxes / Mark Jelavich
Value Capture as a Policy Tool in Transportation Economics: An Exploration in Public Finance in the Tradition of Henry George / H. William Batt
Coordinating Opposite Approaches to Managing Urban Growth and Curbing Sprawl: A Synthesis / Thomas L. Daniels
Leapfrogging, Urban Sprawl, and Growth Management: Phoenix, 1950-2000 / Carol E. Heim
City without Slums: Urban Renewal, Public Housing, and Downtown Revitalization in Kanasa City, Missouri / Kevin Fox Gotham
City Divided by Political Philosophies: Residential Development in a Bi-Provincial City in Canada / Gura Bhargava
International Sister-Cities: Bridging the Global-Local Divide / Rolf D. Cremer, Anne de Bruin and Ann Dupuis
Completely Decentralized City: The Case for Benefits Based Public Finance / Fred E. Foldvary.
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9780631228851
9780631228844
9780631228844
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