URBAN ECONOMICS. O'SULLIVAN Księgarnia

Urban Economics

Throughout the book, Arthur O'Sullivan uses simple economic analysis to explain why cities exist, where they develop, how they grow, and how different activities are arranged within cities. The author also explores the economics of urban problems and policies related to poverty, housing, transportation, education, and crime. O'Sullivan has updated added to the material on theory, empirics, and policy discussion as well as streamlined the discussion throughout.

New to This Edition

New Chapter: "Big and Small Cities": This chapter explains the market forces that generate large cities, exploring the most recent theoretical and empirical work on external economies of scale in production. The chapter also explains why cities differ in size and scope.
New Chapter: "Household Sorting": Most urban problems-poverty, crime, and weak education are highly concentrated in a small number of neighborhoods, in part because households sort themselves with respect to income, education level, and race. This new chapter on household sorting explains the forces behind the sorting of households with respect to income, race, and educational attainment. Sorting happens because: a. households have different demands for local public goods, b. local public goods are supported by the property tax, c. educational achievement depends on the student's peer group, and d. some households have racial preferences.
Problem & Policy Chapters Rewritten: The chapters covering urban problems and policy follow the new chapter on sorting, and have been rewritten thoroughly to focus attention on the highly concentrated nature of urban poverty, crime, and weak education.
Presentation Streamlined: In order to get students to the most important topics in the course more quickly, the author has streamlined the presentation throughout the book. Material has been updated and revised to shorten the text to twenty chapters instead of twenty-two in the 4th Edition.
New Section in Chapter 1, "The Role of Cities in the Economy": This new section explains why cities are the centers of creativity and innovation, why cities promote learning among workers, and why cities generate consumption benefits.
Limits to Growth Material Added: Chapter 2 now discusses the limits to growth-i.e., rising commuting distances. In light of recent phenomena such as the flight from San Francisco, this new coverage helps keep the book current.
Analysis of Market Interactions More Accessible: The last part of Chapter 8 explains the interactions between the urban labor market and the urban land markets, using the streetcar to illustrate the market interactions. This presentation is an alternative to the more complex general-equilibrium analysis in the previous edition. In later chapters, we use this framework to discuss the effects of various policies (an urban service boundary and congestion taxes) on both the labor market and the land market.
Features

- All the tables and charts continue to contain the most recent data. Insights and facts from current theoretical and empirical research have been added in every chapter.

- The policy analysis reflects recent changes in public policy and refinements in the economic analysis of policy alternatives.

- URBAN ECONOMICS brings urban issues into a modern microeconomic framework. This framework appeals to many micro instructors because it closely matches their training and the way they want to teach the course.

- Timely, well-presented, and thorough applications are found throughout.

- This comprehensive text allows instructors the flexibility to teach different kinds of urban courses. The author provides several different course organizations in the preface to accommodate a variety of urban interest courses.

- A "Tools of Microeconomics" appendix covers essential topics from intermediate microeconomics. This helps the student who has only had exposure to micro at the introductory level.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction

Part I Market Forces in the Development of Cities

2 Why Do Cities Exist?

3 Big and Small Cities

4 Where Do Firms Locate?

5 Urban Growth

6 Market Areas and Central Place Theory

Part II Land Rent and Land Use Patterns

7 Introduction to Land Rent

8 Land Use in a Monocentric City

9 Land Use in Modern Cities

10 Land Use Controls and Zoning

Part III Urban Transportation

11 Autos and Highways

12 Mass Transit

Part IV Urban Problems

13 Household Sorting

14 Urban Poverty

15 The Urban Education Problem

16 Urban Crime

Part V Housing

17 Why is Housing Different?

18 Housing Policies

Part VI Local Government

19 Local Government Spending

20 Local Government Revenue

Appendix Tool of Microeconomics Index
596 pages

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