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This volume is a follow-up to the earlier __Urban Economics, Volume 2__ of __Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics__, edited by Edwin Mills. The earlier volume, published in 1987, focussed on urban economic theory. This new handbook, in contrast, focuses on applied urban research. The difference is of course in emphasis. The earlier volume was by no means entirely concerned with theoretical research and this one is by no means entirely concerned with applied research.There have certainly been important theoretical developments during the last decade, and they are surveyed at appropriate places in this volume. However, there has been an outpouring of high quality applied research in urban economics, as in other specialties. The reasons for the rapid growth of applied research are not difficult to identify; improved theoretical frameworks within which to do applied research; improved econometric techniques and software; more and better data; and, probably most important, ever cheaper computing power, which is being ever more widely distributed within the research community, providing increasingly easy access to and analysis of, data. Selection and classification of topics to inclu

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Author

Paul Cheshire and Edwin S. Mills (Eds.)

Publisher

North Holland

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780444509673

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Economics, Social Science, Business