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Introduction to Urban Economics offers a complete and self-contained coverage of urban economics. This book analyzes the economic rationale and growth and development of cities, theory and empirical analysis of urban markets, and problems and policies of urban economies. This text is divided into inter- and intra-urban analysis. Discussions on inter-urban analysis comprise Chapters 1 to 3 that include an introduction to urban economics, economic history of urban areas, and economics of urban growth. The rest of the chapters that cover intra-urban analysis describe the theories of urban markets

A Companion to Urban Economics -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- PART I URBANIZATION -- 1 The Micro-Empirics of Agglomeration Economies -- 2 Human Capital Externalities in Cities: Identification and Policy Issues -- 3 The First Cities -- 4 Cross-Country Patterns of Urban Development -- PART II URBAN LAND USE -- 5 The Spatial Pattern of Land Use in the United States -- 6 Monocentric Cities -- 7 Space in General Equilibrium -- 8 Testing for Monocentricity -- PART III HOUSING AND REAL ESTATE -- 9 The Economic Theory of Housing Tenure Choice -- 10 Housing Policy:Low- Income Households in France -- 11 Housing Demand: An International Perspective -- 12 Discrimination in Mortgage Lending -- 13 Commercial Real Estate -- 14 Housing Price Indexes -- PART IV URBAN TRANSPORTATION -- 15 Urban Transport Economic Theory -- 16 Urban Passenger Travel Demand -- 17 Urban Transportation and Land Use -- 18 Urban Transport Policies:The Dutch Struggle with Market Failures and Policy Failures -- PART V URBAN PUBLIC ECONOMICS -- 19 Financing Cities -- 20 Strategic Interaction among Governments -- 21 Property and Land Taxation -- 22 A Theory of Municipal Corporate Governance with an Application to Land- Use Regulation -- PART VI URBAN LABOR MARKETS AND MACROECONOMICS -- 23 Urban Labor Markets -- 24 A Primer on Spatial Mismatch within Urban Labor Markets -- 25 Urban Labor Economic Theory -- 26 Macroeconomic Analysis Using Regional Data:An Application to Monetary Policy -- 27 Measuring and Analyzing Urban Employment Fluctuations -- PART VII QUALITY OF LIFE -- 28 Measuring Quality of Life -- 29 Air Pollution in Cities -- 30 Urban Crime,Race, and the Criminal Justice System in the United States -- 31 Ethnic Segregation and Ghettos

"Lecture Notes in Urban Economics and Urban Policy provides a wide-ranging introduction to urban economics and urban policy by Professor John Yinger, one of the world's leading scholars in urban economics. It draws on his extensive teaching and publication record to provide detailed lecture notes for both a PhD level course in urban economics and a master's level course in urban policy. Both the US and the world populations are becoming more and more urbanized, and these notes are designed to help scholars learn and teach about the factors that determine urban residential structure and that lead to urban problems such as inadequate housing, concentrated poverty, an inequitable distribution of local public services, racial and ethnic discrimination in housing, and traffic congestion. Although these notes focus on the US, many of the lessons in the notes apply to other countries as well. They also draw on Professor Yinger's extensive teaching experience and publication record in urban economics and should prove useful to many scholars who want to teach about or study urban areas."--

"With more than half of today's global GDP being produced by approximately four hundred metropolitan centers, learning about the economics of cities is vital to understanding economic prosperity. This textbook introduces graduate and upper-division undergraduate students to the field of urban economics and fiscal policy, relying on a modern approach that integrates theoretical and empirical analysis. Based on material that Holger Sieg has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Urban Economics and Fiscal Policy brings the most recent insights from the field into the classroom. Divided into short chapters, the book explores fiscal policies that directly shape economic issues in cities, such as city taxes, the provision of quality education, access to affordable housing, and protection from crime and natural hazards. For each issue, Sieg offers questions, facts, and background; illuminates how economic theory helps students engage with topics; and presents empirical data that shows how economic ideas play out in daily life. Throughout, the book pushes readers to think critically and immediately put what they are learning to use by applying cutting-edge theory to data."

A Companion to Urban Economicsprovides 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