Lectures on Urban Economics

Lectures on Urban Economics offers a rigorous but nontechnical treatment of major topics in urban economics. To make the book accessible to a broad range of readers, the analysis is diagrammatic rather than mathematical. Although nontechnical, the book relies on rigorous economic reasoning. In contrast to the cursory theoretical development often found in other textbooks, Lectures on Urban Economics offers thorough and exhaustive treatments of models relevant to each topic, with the goal of revealing the logic of economic reasoning while also teaching urban economics. Topics covered include reasons for the existence of cities, urban spatial structure, urban sprawl and land-use controls, freeway congestion, housing demand and tenure choice, housing policies, local public goods and services, pollution, crime, and quality of life.

About the author

Jan K. Brueckner is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Irvine, and former editor of the Journal of Urban Economics.

Report

Overall, this book does an excellent job of surveying the theory of urban economics. It does so cleanly, neatly, concisely, and about as simply as possible, making it accessible to a wide audience. David Albouy, Journal of Regional Science

Product details

• Authors: Jan K. Brueckner, Jan K. (University of California Irvine) Brueckner, Brueckner Jan K.
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.05.2012
• EAN: 9780262016360
• ISBN: 978-0-262-01636-0
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 406 g
• Illustrations: 85 FIGURES, 12 TABLES
• Series: Lectures on Urban Economics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Econometrics, Political Economy, Econometrics, Econometrics and economic statistics