The Oxford handbook of urban economics and planning - Brooks, Nancy 1963-; Donaghy, Kieran; Knaap, Gerrit 1956- (New York Oxford University Press, 2012)
Contents -- Teaching Urban Economics to Planners and the Role of Urban Planning to Economists Nancy Brooks.-- Principles of Planning for Economists Gerrit-Jan Knaap. -- What Planners Need to Know about the "New Urban Economics Richard Arnott. -- Managing Change in Urban Infrastructure Systems Kieran P. Donaghy. -- Urban Structure and Economic Growth Harry W. Richardson. -- Discovering the Efficiency of Urban Sprawl Alex Anas. -- Urban Decentralization, Suburbanization, and Sprawl : An Equity Perspective Wim Wiewel. -- The Role of Industrial Clustering and Increasing Returns to Scale in Economic Development and Urban Growth Philip McCann. -- Social Interactions within Cities: Neighborhood Environments and Peer Relationships Stephen L. Ross. -- Does Working Together Prevent Crime? Social Capital, Neighborhoods, and Crime David Sloane.-- The Drug War and Inner-City Neighborhoods William W. Goldsmith. -- Homelessness in the United States Brendan O'Flaherty. -- Urban Poverty, Economic Segregation, and Urban Policy Paul A. Jargowsky.-- Racial Residential Segregation in American Cities Leah Platt Boustan. -- Spatial Assimilation and Its Discontents: The Changing Geography of Immigrant Integration in Metropolitan America Manuel Pastor. -- Gentrification: Perspectives of Economists and Planners Katharine O'Regan. -- Economic and Planning Approaches to Natural Disasters Stephanie E. Chang. -- Housing Markets, Prices, and Policies Richard K. Green. -- The Economics of Zoning cDaniel P. McMillen. -- Exclusionary Land-Use Policies: Economic Rationales and Legal Remedies Casey J. Dawkins. -- Infill Development: Perspectives and Evidence from Economics and Planning cKeith Wiley. -- The Economics of New Urbanism and Smart Growth: Comparing Price Gains and Costs between New Urbanist and Conventional Developments Mark Stevens. -- Toward a Second Generation of Land-Use/Travel Models: Theoretical and Empirical Frontiers Zhan Gu. -- Transportation Economics for Planners in the Twenty-First Century Roger Vickerman. -- Transportation Policy: Public Transit, Settlement Patterns, and Equity in the United States Genevieve Giuliano. -- Urban Education: Location and Opportunity in the United States Kuzey Yilmaz. -- The Role of the Workforce Development System in the Economic Development of Urban Areas Kevin Hollenbeck. -- The Roles of Tax Incentives and Other Business Incentives in Local Economic Development Randall Eberts. -- The Interface of Urban Economics and Urban Planning in Local Economic Development Practice Richard Schramm. -- Framing Urban Systems and Planning Concerns as a Multilevel Problem: A Review of the Integrated Urban System Models with an Emphasis on Their Hierarchical Structures Geoffrey J. D. Hewings. -- Fiscal Impact Analysis and the Costs of Alternative Development Patterns Terry Moore. -- Addressing Local Fiscal Disparities Tracy M. Gordon. -- Land-Use Regulations and Property Values: The "Windfalls Capture" Idea Revisited Rachelle Alterman. -- The High-Rise and the Slum: Speculative Urban Development in Mumbai Rahul Srivastava. -- Housing Informality: An Economist's Perspective on Urban Planning Ciro Biderman. -- Transportation in African Cities: An Institutional Perspective Margaret Grieco. -- Globalization and Urban Growth in the Developing World with Special Reference to Asian Countries Amitahh Kundu. -- Third World Urban Migration as a Global Sustainability Challenge Thomas Vietorisz. -- Urbanization in Japan, South Korea, and China: Policy and Reality Xingshuo Zhao.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Keywords: Urban economics; City planning