We study how the city system is affected by the possibility for the members of the same cultural diaspora to interact across different cities. In so doing, we propose a simple two- city model with two mobile cultural groups. A localized externality fosters the productivity of individuals when...

This book analyses the economic development of cities from the 'cultural economy' and 'creative industry' perspectives, examining and differentiating them as two related but distinct segments of contemporary city economies. The authors argue that although they are normally conflated, the first...

Contents: 1. Introduction / Kakuya Matsushima and William P. Anderson -- Part I: Transportation infrastructure and economic growth -- 2. Railways and regional growth, dispersion and concentration in Scandinavia during 150 years / Hans Westlund -- 3. Regional economic impacts of a transportation...