The sixteen ground-breaking essays in this volume examine the processes by which cities grow and how current public policy, both in the area of zoning and town planning respond to this process.
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 Studlƒ+
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