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I Developments in Urban Systems.- Recent Trends in Urbanization.- The Development of the Urban System.- Policy Approaches for Urban Development in the Netherlands.- International Comparability of Urbanization Phenomena: Difficulties and Possibilities.- II Agglomeration and Location Analysis.- Perspectives for Urban Analyses and Policies.- Accessibility and the Economics of Public Goods.- The Interurban and Intraurban Dimensions of Economic Problems.- Urban Optimality: A Theoretical Study on the Effects of Urban Agglomeration Economies.- Problems of Geographical Uniqueness in Modeling: Transferability Issues, Metropolitan America and Scarcity Problems.- III Urban Growth Models.- Urban Development Modelling and Policy Analysis: Review and Prospects.- Micro-to-Macro Models of Urban Spatial Dynamics: A Modular Approach.- Urban Policy Analysis.- The Shift of Population Density Gradient in Metropolitan Areas.- An Economic Growth Model of the Productive City.- IV Multiobjective Urban Policy Models.- The Impact of Multiobjective Methods on Urban Planning Procedures.- Urban Planning in a Multiobjective, Multilevel Planning Perspective.- V Policy Analysis.- National Urban Policy in an Age of Economic Austerity.- Some Dilemmas of Urban Planning.
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I Developments in Urban Systems.- Recent Trends in Urbanization.- The Development of the Urban System.- Policy Approaches for Urban Development in the Netherlands.- International Comparability of Urbanization Phenomena: Difficulties and Possibilities.- II Agglomeration and Location Analysis.- Perspectives for Urban Analyses and Policies.- Accessibility and the Economics of Public Goods.- The Interurban and Intraurban Dimensions of Economic Problems.- Urban Optimality: A Theoretical Study on the Effects of Urban Agglomeration Economies.- Problems of Geographical Uniqueness in Modeling: Transferability Issues, Metropolitan America and Scarcity Problems.- III Urban Growth Models.- Urban Development Modelling and Policy Analysis: Review and Prospects.- Micro-to-Macro Models of Urban Spatial Dynamics: A Modular Approach.- Urban Policy Analysis.- The Shift of Population Density Gradient in Metropolitan Areas.- An Economic Growth Model of the Productive City.- IV Multiobjective Urban Policy Models.- The Impact of Multiobjective Methods on Urban Planning Procedures.- Urban Planning in a Multiobjective, Multilevel Planning Perspective.- V Policy Analysis.- National Urban Policy in an Age of Economic Austerity.- Some Dilemmas of Urban Planning.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Peter Nijkamp is Professor in Regional and Urban Economics and in Economic Geography at the VU University, Amsterdam. His main research interests cover quantitative plan evaluation, regional and urban modelling, multicriteria analysis, transport systems analysis, mathematical systems modelling, technological innovation, entrepreneurship, environmental and resource management, and sustainable development. In the past years he has focussed his research in particular on new quantitative methods for policy analysis, as well as on spatial-behavioural analysis of economic agents. He has a broad expertise in the area of public policy, services planning, infrastructure management and environmental protection. In all these fields he has published many books and numerous articles.§In 1996, he was awarded the most prestigious scientific prize in the Netherlands, the Spinoza award.
