The Oxford Handbook of Urban Economics and Planning Hardback
Edited by Nancy (Visiting Associate Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, Visiting Asso Brooks, Kieran (Professor and Chair, Department of City and Regional Planning, Professor and Chair, Donaghy, Gerrit-Jan (Professor of Urban Studies and Planning and Director of the National Center for S Knaap
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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 efficient provision of urban services, efficient systems of transportation, and the proper allocation of land between urban and environmental uses.
In bridging this gap, the book highlights the best scholarship in planning and economics that address the most pressing urban problems of our day and stimulates further dialog between scholars in urban planning and urban economics.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:1032 pages, 55 illustrations
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:12/01/2012
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:1032 pages, 55 illustrations
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:12/01/2012
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- ISBN:9780195380620