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
List of Figures viii
List of Tables xi
Notes on Contributors xiii
Preface xx
PART I URBANIZATION
1 The Micro-Empirics of Agglomeration Economies 7
Stuart S. Rosenthal and William C. Strange
2 Human Capital Externalities in Cities: Identification and Policy Issues 24
Gilles Duranton
3 The First Cities 40
Arthur O’Sullivan
4 Cross-Country Patterns of Urban Development 55
Stephen Malpezzi
PART II URBAN LAND USE
5 The Spatial Pattern of Land Use in the United States 77
Elena G. Irwin and Nancy E. Bockstael
6 Monocentric Cities 96
Marvin Kraus
7 Space in General Equilibrium 109
Marcus Berliant and Courtney LaFountain
8 Testing for Monocentricity 128
Daniel P. McMillen
PART III HOUSING ANl³,