Objective indicators suggest that numerous aspects of the quality of residential environments decline with increasing size of place. As human responses to the environment are based in part on perceptions and evaluations of conditions rather than their objective status, subjective indicators...

During the past two decades the South has experienced more vigorous urban development than the North. In response to this continuing trend, the Congress has recently enacted legislation that provides increased levels of Federal assistance to slower growing communities and those whose housing...

In this paper, hedonic regressions are used to analyze a seven-year sample of monthly sales of bungalows in Chicago. Even when sales are considered within individual sections of Chicago, the FHA dummy-independent variable and the `points'-independent ...

(Fellows Address April, 1995) It is now more than forty years since Walter Isard sought to create a new discipline, Regional Science. What concerned him was the Anglo-Saxon bias in economics: that economic systems could be analyzed in a spaceless world, literally on the head of a pin. The...

Although the pattern of polarization reversal reported by Vining and Pallone in the 1970s and the re-emergence of core-ward net migration that they now report for the 1980s are problematic if viewed from the perspective of a short-term time horizon, they are easily understandable in a long-wave...