Overview

This volume embodies a problem-driven and theoretically informed approach to bridging frontier research in urban economics and urban/regional planning. The authors focus on the interface between these two subdisciplines that have historically had an uneasy relationship. Although economists were among the early contributors to the literature on urban planning, many economists have been dismissive of a discipline whose leading scholars frequently favor regulations over market institutions, equity over efficiency, and normative prescriptions over positive analysis. Planners, meanwhile, even as they draw upon economic principles, often view the work of economists as abstract, not sensitive to institutional contexts, and communicated in a formal language spoken by few with decision making authority. Not surprisingly, papers in the leading economic journals rarely cite clearly pertinent papers in planning journals, and vice versa. Despite the historical divergence in perspectives and methods, urban economics and urban planning share an intense interest in many topic areas: the nature of cities, the prosperity of urban economies, the provision of urban services, efficient systems of transportation, and the proper allocation of land between urban and environmental uses. In bridging this gap, this book highlights the best scholarship in planning and economics that addresses the most pressing urban problems of our day and will stimulate further dialog between scholars in urban planning and urban economics.

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Author:   Nancy Brooks ,  Kieran Donaghy ,  Gerrit-Jan Knaap
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 18.10cm , Height: 5.00cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.820kg
ISBN:  

9780195380620

ISBN 10:   0195380622
Pages:   1032
Publication Date:   30 November 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I. Principles of Planning and Urban Economics 1. Nancy Brooks, Teaching urban economics to planners and the role of urban planning to economists. 2. Nikhil Kaza and Gerrit-Jan Knaap, Principles of planning for economists. 3. Richard Arnott, What planners need to know about the 'new urban economics'. II. Urban Structure, Growth and the Development Process 4. Kieran Donaghy, Managing Change in Urban Infrastructure Systems 5. Peter Gordon and Harry Richardson, Urban Structure and Economic Growth. 6. Alex Anas, Discovering the Efficiency of Urban Sprawl. 7. Joseph Persky and Wim Wiewel, Urban decentralization, suburbanization and sprawl: An Equity Perspective. 8. Philip McCann, The Role of Industrial Clustering and Increasing Returns to Scale in Economic Development and Urban Growth III. Social and Equity Issues 9. Stephen Ross, Social Interactions within Cities: Neighborhood Environments and Peer Relationships. 10. Hyunsun Choi and David Sloane, Does Working Together Prevent Crime?: Social Capital, Neighborhoods and Crime. 11. William W. Goldsmith, The Drug War and Inner-City Neighborhoods. 12. Brendan O'Flaherty, Homelessness in the United States. 13. Paul A. Jargowsky, Urban Poverty, Economic Segregation, and Urban Policy 14. Leah Platt Boustan, Racial Residential Segregation in American cities. 15. Manuel Pastor, Spatial Assimilation and Its Discontents: The Changing Geography of Immigrant Integration in Metropolitan America. 16. Ingrid Gould Ellen and Katherine O'Regan, Gentrification: The perspectives of economists and planners IV. Urban Land Use and Transportation Policy 17. Yasuhide Okuyama and Stephanie Chang, Economic and Planning Approaches to Natural Disasters. 18. Richard Green, Housing markets, prices, and policies. 19. John F. McDonald and Daniel P. McMillen, The Economics of Zoning. 20. Casey J. Dawkins, Exclusionary Land Use Policies: Economic Rationales and Legal Remedies. 21. Virginia McConnell and Keith Wiley, Infill Development: Perspectives and Evidence from Economics and Planning 22. Yan Song and Mark Stevens, The Economics of New Urbanism and Smart Growth: Comparing Price Gains and Costs between New Urbanist and Conventional Developments. 23. Randall Crane and Zhan Guo Toward a Second Generation of Land Use/Travel Models with an Application to Path Choice. 24. Aisling Reynolds-Feighan and Roger Vickerman, Transportation Economics for Planners in the 21st century 25. Genevieve Giuliano, Transportation Policy: Public Transit, Settlement Patterns, and Equity in the U.S. V. Economic, Workforce and Human Capital Development 26. Eric A. Hanushek and Kuzey Yilmaz, Urban Education: Location and Opportunity in the United States. 27. Kevin Hollenbeck, The Role of the Workforce Development System in the Economic Development of Urban Areas. 28. Timothy J. Bartik and Randall Eberts, The roles of tax incentives and other business incentives in local economic development. 29. Richard Schramm, The Interface of Urban Economics and Urban Planning in Local Economic Development Practice. 30. Jae Hong Kim and Geoffrey J.D. Hewings, Framing Urban Systems and Planning Concerns as a Multi-Level Problem: A Review of the Integrated Urban System Models with an Emphasis on Their Hierarchical Structures. VI. Urban Public Finance and Governance 31. Lorelei Juntunen, Gerrit-Jan Knaap and Terry Moore Fiscal Impact Analysis and the Costs of Alternative Development Patterns. 32. Tracy M. Gordon, Addressing Local Fiscal Disparities. 33. Rachelle Alterman, Land use regulations and property values: The Windfalls Capture Idea Revisited. VII. International Settings 34. Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava, The High Rise & The Slum: Speculative Urban Development in Mumbai 35. Martim Smolka and Ciro Biderman, Housing Informality: An Economist's Perspective on Urban Planning. 36. Margaret Grieco, Transportation in African Cities: an Institutional Perspective. 37. Amitabh Kundu, Globalisation and Urban Growth in the Developing World with Special Reference to Asian Countries 38. Thomas Vietorisz, Third World Urban Migration as a Global Sustainability Challenge. 39. Chengri Ding and Xingshuo Zhao, Urbanization and Policy in Japan, South Korea, and China: Policy and Reality.

Reviews

<br> The editors of this handbook set out to bridge the disciplines of urban economics and city and regional planning and have succeeded wonderfully. They have put together a remarkably comprehensive set of original chapters written by leading scholars that address many of the critical issues facing contemporary urban areas. They also present and critically analyze a variety of tools for addressing those issues. This handbook is an essential reference volume and can be used in upper-level undergraduate or graduate courses in urban economics and planning. --William M. Rohe, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<p><br> This timely and important collection goes well beyond the traditional urban economics canon of externalities, bid-rent theory and public choice theory to uncover the economic principles and practices by which real urban places actually function. A section on the application of urban economics pri

The large number of chapters results in coverage of a wide range of topics, all treated analytically and many augmented with empirical evidence.... Teachers and students of urban economics as well as urban planners will find it quite valuable. Highly recommended. --CHOICE The editors of this handbook set out to bridge the disciplines of urban economics and city and regional planning and have succeeded wonderfully. They have put together a remarkably comprehensive set of original chapters written by leading scholars that address many of the critical issues facing contemporary urban areas. They also present and critically analyze a variety of tools for addressing those issues. This handbook is an essential reference volume and can be used in upper-level undergraduate or graduate courses in urban economics and planning. --William M. Rohe, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill This timely and important collection goes well beyond the traditional urban economics canon of externalities, bid-rent theory and public choice theory to uncover the economic principles and practices by which real urban places actually function. A section on the application of urban economics principles in Asia and developing countries is especially welcome. Were I developing an advanced undergraduate course or introductory graduate course on urban economics for a globalizing world, this is the text I'd use. --John D. Landis, Crossways Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania The Oxford Handbook of Urban Economics and Planning brings together many of the leading thinkers in economics and planning who show how economics informs planning decisions and how planning informs economic thinking. The handbook covers the waterfront in contemporary planning concerns and promises to become a leading text for courses in planning and economics. --Arthur C. Nelson, Presi

Author Information

Nancy Brooks is Visiting Associate Professor at Cornell University in the Department of City and Regional Planning, and has also been on the economics department faculty at the University of Vermont. She earned her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995. Her research interests are in applied urban and environmental economics. She has published in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Kieran Donaghy is Professor and Chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University. He holds a Ph.D. in regional science from Cornell University. He has studied issues in transportation, land use, housing, labor markets, and the environment. Much of his recent research concerns the impacts of globalization and climate change on regions and how resource-rich regions can avoid the resource curse. Gerrit-Jan Knaap is Professor of Urban Studies and Planning and Director of the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education at the University of Maryland. Knaap's research interests include the economics and politics of land use planning, the efficacy of economic development instruments, and the impacts of environmental policy. He serves on the State of Maryland's Smart Growth Subcabinet and Sustainable Growth Commission and the Science and Technical Advisory Committee to the Chesapeake Bay Commission. Knaap earned his B.S. from Willamette University, his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Oregon, and received post-doctoral training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, all in economics.

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