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• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1 The city as a trading entity
• Introduction
• Commodity trade of large cities in the United States
• The accounts for a “small” open city
• A local goods sector added on
• A local housing sector added on
• A local public sector
• Simulating our small open city
• The basic model
• The addition of a local public sector
• A local non-traded good (haircuts)
• The basic model with a non-traded and a government good
• Sunnier cities
• Adaptive equilibria
• Summary
• Main points of Chapter 1
• Questions and problems
• Appendix 1.1
• 2 Land use for the simplified city
• Land allocation
• The classic statement of land allocation (von Thunen)
• A simple monocentric model of a city with constant residential density
• Measuring technical change with land rent change
• The open-city assumption
• Rent change from a transportation improvement
• Cobb–Douglas utility functions
• General capitalization in rent change
• Summary
• Main points of Chapter 2
• Questions and problems
• Appendix 2.1
• Appendix 2.2
• 3 Distinct income classes and suburban employment
• Introduction
• Different income classes in the monocentric city
• A suburban ring of jobs
• Durable structures in a monocentric city
• General utility and production functions and capitalization
• Geographic amenity differences between cities
• Measuring the attractiveness of a city (quality of life indicators)
• Summary
• Main points of Chapter 3
• Questions and problems
• Appendix 3.1
• Appendix 3.2
• 4 Wages, agglomeration and migration
• Introduction
• Scale economies
• City size, labor pooling and local unemployment
• Fitting workers with distinct skills to vacancies with distinct requirements
• Face to face activity
• Positive externalities between neighboring firms
• Cities adjusting: short term and long term
• Analytical detail for amenity increase
• Sticky adjustment to shocks to a city
• Long term change for cities in the United States
• Harris–Todaro migration-unemployment model
• Discrimination
• Summary
• Main points of Chapter 4
• Questions and problems
• 5 Basics of location economics
• Introduction
• The Loschian service town
• Hotelling’s excessive clustering argument
• Zero profit spatial price arbitrage
• Spatial price equilibrium
• The Weber firm location problem
• Intermediate goods and urban structure 126 Summary
• Main points of Chapter 5
• Questions and problems
• Appendix 5.1
• Appendix 5.2
• 6 Growth of cities
• A growing economy
• The medieval fortified village
• Horizontal growth of villages
• Import substitution by larger cities
• A two-city type hierarchy under Ricardian assumptions
• Intermediate goods, scale and transportation costs
• Intermediate goods and scale advantage
• Separation of high-level decision-making from direct production activity
• Technical progress and cities
• Decomposition of aggregate growth into city-specific growth
• Long-term demographic reorganization
• Data for city sizes in a system
• Great ratios for cities
• Decline
• Summary
• Main points of Chapter 6
• Questions and problems
• 7 Transportation
• Demand for alternative modes for commuting
• Mass transit
• Congestion charges
• Tax revenue and the size of the roadway
• Vehicle emission controls
• Congestion at a bottleneck
• The future of central city entry charges for vehicles
• Summary
• Main points of Chapter 7
• Questions and problems
• Appendix 7.1
• 8 Housing
• Introduction
• User cost and asset equilibrium
• User cost versus rent for estimating house service value
• Investing in a home or in a mutual fund
• Housing supply by trickle-down
• Unpacking the price of a house
• Rent control
• Public housing
• Summary
• Main points of Chapter 8
• Questions and problems
• Appendix 8.1
• Appendix 8.2
• 9 The public sector
• Introduction
• Pure public goods
• Preference revelation
• The median voter and a size for G
• Public good in the utility function and city structure
• Public good cost incidence
• Taxation with houses with structures (capital)
• Relocating to find a better public sector “outcome”
• Worker “relocation” and local public goods
• Public sector bundles
• The role of municipal government
• Local government revenue sharing
• Criminal behavior
• Urban crime
• Summary
• Main points of Chapter 9
• Questions and problems
• Appendix 9.1
• Appendix 9.2
• 10 Populations, slums and planning
• Introduction
• Slums
• Poor people and the future
• Sustainable cities
• Regulation of urban development
• From economics to policy design
• Regulation of land use
• A parliament of mayors
• Economic policy
• Summary
• Main points of Chapter 10
• Questions and problems
• References
• Index