Visual depiction of the structure and evolution of science has been proposed as a key strategy for dealing with the large, complex, and increasingly interdisciplinary records of scientific communication. While every such visualization assumes the existence of spatial structures within the system...

This paper presents a new way to identify and understand the industry clusters in the Colombianeconomy. The analysis relies on a recent methodology proposed by Duque and Rey (2008) whereintricate input-output linkages between industries are simplified using network analysis. In addition to other...

While an enormous and growing literature exists on the topic of re-gional income convergence, other aspects of socioeconomic well-being and development have attracted much less attention. Social indicators are a valuable complement to economic indicators when analyzing spatial patterns in a...

This article introduces a new approach to measuring neighborhood change. Instead of the traditional method of identifying “neighborhoods” a priori and then studying how resident attributes change over time, this approach looks at the neighborhood more intrinsically as a unit that has both a...

The literature on economic development has been divided as to the nature of the relationship between inequality and growth. Recent exploratory work in the field has provided evidence that the dynamic and spatial relationships between the two may be far more complicated than previously thought....

This article examines the publication patterns in five core regional science journals during the 1990s. Attention is paid to the thematic distribution of articles for each journal and across journals. The journals are also compared with respect to citation counts, areas of concentration, and...

William Alonso was awarded the first Ph.D. in regional science. The book based on his dissertation is often credited with launching the field of urban economics and remains probably the most cited work by far in regional science. Saltonstall Professor of Population Policy at Harvard, Alonso also...