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...

Recent research has been increasingly showing that it is not the houses or the neighbourhoods in which people live that make them sick or poor: rather it is their personal characteristics. Still this does not mean that interventions aimed at occupants of social housing may not be effective in...

Recommended readings (Machine generated): Paul A. Samuelson (1983), 'Thünen at Two Hundred', Journal of Economic Literature, XXI (4), December, 1468-88 -- Colin Clark (1967), 'Von Thünen's Isolated State', Oxford Economic Papers, New Series, 19 (3), November, 370-77 -- William Alonso (1960),...

Introductory economics tells us there are three factors of production: land, labour and capital. Unless a student of agricultural economics, land as a factor of production will never be mentioned again. Yet space for some industries is a significant input and that would seem to be true of...