City and Country
An Interdisciplinary Collection
Economics and Sociology Thematic Issue
1. Edition July 2001
440 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-631-22884-4
John Wiley & Sons
The sixteen ground-breaking essays in this volume examine the processes by which cities grow and how current public policy, both in the area of zoning and town planning respond to this process.
City and Country: an Interdisciplinary Collection:.
1. Editor's Introduction: Laurence S. Moss.
Part I: Historical Perspectives on the Agglomeration Approach
to Economic Growth:.
1. Henry George and Classical Growth Theory: A Significant
Contribution to Modeling Scale Economies : John Whitaker.
2. Modeling Agglomeration and Dispersion in City and Country
Gunnar Myrdal, François Perroux, and the New Economic
Geography: Stephen J. Meardon.
3. City and Country: Lessons from European Economic Thought:
Jürgen G. Backhaus; Gerrit Meijer.
4. Making the Country Work for the City: Von
Thünen's Ideas in Geography, Agricultural Economics
and the Sociology of Agriculture: Daniel Block, E. Melanie
DuPuis.
Part II: New Research on Size, Geography, Specialization and
Productivity:.
1. Agglomeration and Congestionin the Economics of Ideas and
Technological Change: Norman Sedgley; Bruce Elmslie.
2. Zipf's Law for Cities and Beyond: The Case of Denmark:
Thorbjørn Knudsen.
3. The Structure of Sprawl: Identifying and Characterizing
Employment Centers in Polycentric Metropolitan Areas: Nathan B.
Anderson, William T. Bogart.
4. Edge Cities and the Viability of Metropolitan Economies:
Contributions to Flexibility and External Linkages by New Urban
Service Environments: David L. McKee; Yosra A. McKee.
5. Manufacturing and Rural Economies in the United States: The
Role of Nondurable Producers, Labor Costs and State Taxes: Mark
Jelavich.
Part III: Case Studies: Land Value Taxation and Real Estate
Development:.
1. Value Capture as a Policy Tool in Transportation Economics:
An Exploration in Public Finance in the Tradition of Henry George:
H. William Batt.
2. Coordinating Opposite Approaches to Managing Urban Growth and
Curbing Sprawl: A Synthesis: Thomas L. Daniels.
3. Leapfrogging, Urban Sprawl, and Growth Management: Phoenix,
1950-2000: Carol E. Heim.
4. A City without Slums: Urban Renewal, Public Housing, and
Downtown Revitalization in Kansas City, Missouri: Kevin Fox
Gotham.
5. A City Divided by Political Philosophies: Residential
Development in a Bi-Provincial City in Canada: Gura Bhargava.
Part IV: The Transformation of the City in the 21st
Century:.
1. International Sister-Cities: Bridging the Global-Local
Divide: Rolf D. Cremer; Anne de Bruin; Ann Dupuis.
2. The Completely Decentralized City: The Case for Benefits
Based Public Finance: Fed E. Foldvary.
Index.
1. Editor's Introduction: Laurence S. Moss.
Part I: Historical Perspectives on the Agglomeration Approach
to Economic Growth:.
1. Henry George and Classical Growth Theory: A Significant
Contribution to Modeling Scale Economies : John Whitaker.
2. Modeling Agglomeration and Dispersion in City and Country
Gunnar Myrdal, François Perroux, and the New Economic
Geography: Stephen J. Meardon.
3. City and Country: Lessons from European Economic Thought:
Jürgen G. Backhaus; Gerrit Meijer.
4. Making the Country Work for the City: Von
Thünen's Ideas in Geography, Agricultural Economics
and the Sociology of Agriculture: Daniel Block, E. Melanie
DuPuis.
Part II: New Research on Size, Geography, Specialization and
Productivity:.
1. Agglomeration and Congestionin the Economics of Ideas and
Technological Change: Norman Sedgley; Bruce Elmslie.
2. Zipf's Law for Cities and Beyond: The Case of Denmark:
Thorbjørn Knudsen.
3. The Structure of Sprawl: Identifying and Characterizing
Employment Centers in Polycentric Metropolitan Areas: Nathan B.
Anderson, William T. Bogart.
4. Edge Cities and the Viability of Metropolitan Economies:
Contributions to Flexibility and External Linkages by New Urban
Service Environments: David L. McKee; Yosra A. McKee.
5. Manufacturing and Rural Economies in the United States: The
Role of Nondurable Producers, Labor Costs and State Taxes: Mark
Jelavich.
Part III: Case Studies: Land Value Taxation and Real Estate
Development:.
1. Value Capture as a Policy Tool in Transportation Economics:
An Exploration in Public Finance in the Tradition of Henry George:
H. William Batt.
2. Coordinating Opposite Approaches to Managing Urban Growth and
Curbing Sprawl: A Synthesis: Thomas L. Daniels.
3. Leapfrogging, Urban Sprawl, and Growth Management: Phoenix,
1950-2000: Carol E. Heim.
4. A City without Slums: Urban Renewal, Public Housing, and
Downtown Revitalization in Kansas City, Missouri: Kevin Fox
Gotham.
5. A City Divided by Political Philosophies: Residential
Development in a Bi-Provincial City in Canada: Gura Bhargava.
Part IV: The Transformation of the City in the 21st
Century:.
1. International Sister-Cities: Bridging the Global-Local
Divide: Rolf D. Cremer; Anne de Bruin; Ann Dupuis.
2. The Completely Decentralized City: The Case for Benefits
Based Public Finance: Fed E. Foldvary.
Index.
Laurence S. Moss now serves as editor of The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. He is a Professor of Economics at Babson College and has served as the President of the History of Economics Society. He is also a well-known historian of economic thought. Moss is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association and now serves on the Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
