The two decades since the publication of Harvey Molotch's seminal paper," The City as a
Growth Machine"(Molotch 1976), have witnessed dramatic changes in the economic, social …

The 1990s were an unusually good decade for the largest American cities and, in particular,
for the cities of the Midwest. However, fundamentally urban growth in the 1990s looked …

Thorough and authoritative, Regional and Urban Economics and Economic Development:
Theory and Methods provides students with a sound approach to analyzing the economic …

In the great cities of Latin America and Asia, international business and local firms meet and,
in particular, influence teh development strategies of Third World countries. The authors of …

The Committee on National Urban Policy, established by the National Research Council
(NRC) in 1981 with support from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development …

Originally published in 1989. This major book deals with deindustrialization and regional
economic transformation in five regions of the USA: the industrial Midwest, the South …

This is a study of the economics of development and urbanization. Its two principal themes
are 1) that simple economic factors explain the spatial location of populations and industries …

Canada is one of the most urban societies in the world. The nature and role of our cities has
changed continually over time. The author documents the current and growing centrality of …

Urbanisation patterns in the United States have taken some unlikely turns over the past
quarter of a century.) fter following fairly predictable trends in the 1950s and 1960s towards …