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- Higher Education Academy: Books on Regional and Urban Economics - Books suitable for teaching Regional and Urban Economics at university level, from the Economics Network at Britain's Higher Education Academy. General texts and books on specific topics are listed, and the site offers links to UK search information on each book.
- Bay Area Economics (BAE) - Promotional material from a Californian real estate and urban development consultancy, with urban economics expertise and a specialty in military base reuse.
- Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World (EDIRC): Regional and Urban Economics, Real Estate - Global institutional index segment for these areas of work, from the University of Connecticut's Department of Economics.
- Urban Economics Simulation Study - Youngsun Kwon's models (open, and closed) of a monocentric city with a dense hub-and-spoke commuting network. Kwon is Assistant Professor in the School of Management at South Korea's Information and Communications University (ICU). The open model is available for public use.
- Institute for Urban Economics (IUE) - Russian not-for-profit urban regeneration organization. Describes activities, and contains knowledge-based reports.
- Annals of Regional Science - Official journal of the Western Regional Science Association (WRSA). Provides research on spatial economics and urban studies, including: resource management; location theory; urban and regional planning; transportation and communication; human geography; population distribution; and environmental quality.
- Urban Studies - An international journal rooted in urban economics and social science research. Publication site contains submission and editorial information, and details for online subscription and search.
- American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA) - A not-for-profit, knowledge-oriented network. Disseminates organizational and conference information; material about its publication, Real Estate Economics; and wider news.
- Regional Science and Urban Economics - International research journal concentrating on microeconomic analyses of spatial economic phenomena. Electronic publication service from publisher Elsevier's ECONbase offers submission, publication and subscription information, archived abstracts, and full papers for subscribers.
- Wyoming Economic Data - Economic data site for parts of Wyoming, from the Wyoming Center for Business and Economic Analysis (WCBEA).
Wikipedia Articles
- Urban economics - Broadly, Urban Economics is the economic study of urban areas. As such, it involves using the tools of economics to analyze urban issues such as crime, education, public transit, housing, and local government finance.
- List of urban studies topics - Urban Studies is the scientific discipline that studies all aspects of cities, their suburbs, and other urban areas. This includes urban economics, urban planning, urban architecture, urban ecology, urban transportation systems, urban politics, and urban social relations.
- Urban spatial structure - Urban spatial structure or urban structure refers to a cluster of concepts concerned with the arrangement of urban public space. The way that urban public space is arranged affects many aspects of how cities function and has implications for accessibility, environmental sustainability, safety, social equity, social capital, cultural creativity and economics.
- Harris-Todaro Model - The Harris-Todaro Model is an economic model used in development economics and welfare economics to explain some of the issues concerning rural-urban migration. The main result of the model is that the migration decision is based on expected income differentials between rural and urban areas, not wage differentials.
- Regional science - Regional science is a field of the social sciences concerned with analytical approaches to problems that are specifically urban, rural, or regional. Topics in regional science include, but are not limited to location theory or spatial economics, location modeling, transportation, migration analysis, land use and urban development, interindustry analysis, environmental and ecological analysis, resource management, urban and regional policy analysis, geographical information systems, and spatial data analysis.