Urban economics

Author(s)

• Mills, Edwin S.

Bibliographic Information

Urban economics

edited by Edwin S. Mills

（Handbooks in economics, 7 . Handbook of regional and urban economics ; v. 2）

North-Holland , Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science, 1987

• : set

Note

Includes bibliographies and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This second volume of the Handbook presents professional surveys of all the important topics in urban economics. The first section contains 6 surveys on locational analysis, the second, 5 surveys of specific urban markets, and the third part presents 5 surveys of government policy issues. The book brings together exhaustive research by distinguished scholars from many countries. It is the only complete survey volume of urban economics and should serve as a reference volume to scholars and graduate students for many years. For more information on the Handbooks in Economics series, please see our home page on http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/hes

Table of Contents

Advances in urban economics (E.S. Mills, P. Nijkamp). Locational Analysis. The theory of urban residential location (M. Straszheim). Theories of urban business locations (K. Stahl). The structure of urban equilibria: A unified treatement of the Muth-Mills model (J.K. Brueckner). Computer simulation models of urban location (J.F. Kain). Dynamic urban models (T. Miyao). General equilibrium modeling of systems of cities (J.V. Henderson). Specific Urban Markets. Economic theory and housing (R. Arnott). The demand and supply of housing service: A critical survey of the empirical literature (E. Olsen). Urban transportation (M.E. Beesley, M.A. Kemp). Urban public facility location (C. ReVelle). Rural-urban migration in developing countries (D. Mazumdar). Urban Government Behavior and Issues. Theoretical analysis of local public economics (D. Wildasin). Financing urban public services (R. Prud'homme). Urban amenities and public policy (T.J. Bartik, V.K. Smith). Urbanization in the developing world: Patterns, issues, and policies (A.M. Hamer, J.F. Linn). City size and place as policy issues (G. Tolley, J. Crihfield).

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Details

• NCID: BA01434600
• ISBN:
  • 0444879714
  • 0444879706
• LCCN: 86016538
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Amsterdam ; Tokyo,New York, N.Y., U.S.A.
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 704-1322 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • NDLC : D2
  • NDLC : DC971
  • LCC : HT391.3
  • DC19 : 330.9173/2
  • NDC8 : 332.9
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Regional economics -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • LCSH : Urban economics -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00065123