Annotation, Developments in methodologies, agglomeration, and a range of applied issues have characterized recent advances in regional and urban studies. Volume 5 concentrates on these developments while treating traditional subjects such as housing, the costs and benefits of cities, and policy...

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...

This textbook offers an introduction to empirical regional economics, including a comprehensive and systematic overview of the fundamentals, history, development, and applications of economic base models. It not only provides a sound basis for regional economics and regional economic analysis,...

Regional Allocations of Innovative Activity -- The Case of 3D Printing -- Regional Determinants of Innovative Activity -- Geoadditive Modeling of Diverging Allocations -- Innovative Activity over Space and Time -- Spatiotemporal Modeling of Innovation Promoting Factors

This volume is a follow-up to the earlier Urban Economics, Volume 2 of Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, edited by Edwin Mills. The earlier volume, published in 1987, focussed on urban economic theory. This new handbook, in contrast, focuses on applied urban research. The difference is...

This first volume of the Handbook serves as a definitive reference source and teaching supplement for the field of regional economics, and for related fields such as geography, transportation economics, regional science and physical planning. It provides an advanced state-of-the-art survey for...

Preface -- Chapter 1: Executive Summary -- Part I. Regional Economic Structure and Productivity -- Chapter 2: Regional Economic Structure in Japan -- Chapter 3: Regional Productivity and Convergence -- Chapter 4: Regional Productivity and Determinants -- Part II. Inter-Regional Network Economies...