A Companion to Urban Economics

Copyright © 2006 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd

A Companion to Urban Economics

Editor(s): Richard J. Arnott, Daniel P. McMillen

Published Online: 29 NOV 2007

Print ISBN: 9781405106290

Online ISBN: 9780470996225

DOI: 10.1002/9780470996225

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A Companion to Urban Economics provides a state-of-the-art overview of this field, communicating its intellectual richness through a diverse portfolio of authors and topics.


  • Unique in both its rigor and international treatment
  • An ideal supplementary textbook in upper-level undergraduate urban economics courses, or in master's level and professional courses, providing students with the necessary foundation to tackle more advanced topics in urban economics
  • Contains contributions from the world's leading urban economists

Table of contents

    1. You have free access to this content
      Frontmatter (pages i–xxvii)

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      Urbanization (pages 1–5)

    3. Chapter 1

      The Micro-Empirics of Agglomeration Economies (pages 7–23)

      Stuart S. Rosenthal and William C. Strange

    4. Chapter 2

      Human Capital Externalities in Cities: Identification and Policy Issues (pages 24–39)

      Gilles Duranton

    5. Chapter 3

      The First Cities (pages 40–54)

      Arthur O'Sullivan

    6. Chapter 4

      Cross-Country Patterns of Urban Development (pages 55–71)

      Stephen Malpezzi

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      Urban Land Use (pages 73–76)

    8. Chapter 5

      The Spatial Pattern of Land Use in the United States (pages 77–95)

      Elena G. Irwin and Nancy E. Bockstael

    9. Chapter 6

      Monocentric Cities (pages 97–108)

      Marvin Kraus

    10. Chapter 7

      Space in General Equilibrium (pages 109–127)

      Marcus Berliant and Courtney LaFountain

    11. Chapter 8

      Testing for Monocentricity (pages 128–140)

      Daniel P. McMillen

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      Housing and Real Estate (pages 141–144)

    13. Chapter 9

      The Economic Theory of Housing Tenure Choice (pages 145–158)

      Franz Hubert

    14. Chapter 10

      Housing Policy: Low-Income Households in France (pages 159–178)

      Anne Laferrère and David Le Blanc

    15. Chapter 11

      Housing Demand: An International Perspective (pages 179–196)

      Miki Seko

    16. Chapter 12

      Discrimination in Mortgage Lending (pages 198–210)

      Anthony M. Yezer

    17. Chapter 13

      Commercial Real Estate (pages 211–227)

      David Geltner

    18. Chapter 14

      Housing Price Indexes (pages 228–239)

      Bradford Case

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      Urban Transportation (pages 241–244)

    20. Chapter 15

      Urban Transport Economic Theory (pages 245–260)

      Yoshitsugu Kanemoto

    21. Chapter 16

      Urban Passenger Travel Demand (pages 261–280)

      André de Palma, Robin Lindsey and Nathalie Picard

    22. Chapter 17

      Urban Transportation and Land Use (pages 281–291)

      John F. McDonald

    23. Chapter 18

      Urban Transport Policies: The Dutch Struggle with Market Failures and Policy Failures (pages 292–305)

      Piet Rietveld

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      Urban Public Economics (pages 307–310)

    25. Chapter 19

      Financing Cities (pages 311–331)

      Robert P. Inman

    26. Chapter 20

      Strategic Interaction among Governments (pages 332–347)

      Jan K. Brueckner

    27. Chapter 21

      Property and Land Taxation (pages 348–371)

      John Douglas Wilson

    28. Chapter 22

      A Theory of Municipal Corporate Governance with an Application to Land-Use Regulation (pages 372–384)

      William A. Fischel

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      Urban Labor Markets and Macroeconomics (pages 385–388)

    30. Chapter 23

      Urban Labor Markets (pages 389–403)

      Timothy J. Bartik and Randall W. Eberts

    31. Chapter 24

      A Primer on Spatial Mismatch within Urban Labor Markets (pages 404–417)

      Keith R. Ihlanfeldt

    32. Chapter 25

      Urban Labor Economic Theory (pages 418–439)

      Yves Zenou

    33. Chapter 26

      Macroeconomic Analysis Using Regional Data: An Application to Monetary Policy (pages 440–459)

      Gerald A. Carlino and Robert H. DeFina

    34. Chapter 27

      Measuring and Analyzing Urban Employment Fluctuations (pages 460–478)

      N. Edward Coulson

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      Quality of Life (pages 479–482)

    36. Chapter 28

      Measuring Quality of Life (pages 483–501)

      Glenn C. Blomquist

    37. Chapter 29

      Air Pollution in Cities (pages 502–514)

      Matthew E. Kahn

    38. Chapter 30

      Urban Crime, Race, and the Criminal Justice System in the United States (pages 515–535)

      Steven Raphael and Melissa Sills

    39. Chapter 31

      Ethnic Segregation and Ghettos (pages 537–554)

      Alex Anas

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      Index (pages 555–574)

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