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Nature and Scope of Regional and Urban Economics. Chapter 1. Earth at Night. Skyline of Houston. Roots of Spatial Economics. Richard Cantillon (1755) Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1826) Carl Launhardt (1885) Alfred Weber (1929) Walter Christaller (1933) August Lösch (1944)
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Nature and Scope of Regional and Urban Economics Chapter 1 1
Roots of Spatial Economics • Richard Cantillon (1755) • Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1826) • Carl Launhardt (1885) • Alfred Weber (1929) • Walter Christaller (1933) • August Lösch (1944) • Harold Hotelling (1929) 4
Regions • Functional (regional homogeneity) • Administrative (political subdivisions) 5
Space and traditional economics • Spatial market structures • Regional growth policies and theories • Local public finance 10
Sources • Earth at Night: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001127.html • Houston Skyline: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Houston_Skyline11.jpg • Courtesy of Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, and Dr. Borsi Balazs. http://www.zsi.at/attach/RECORD_experimental_map.pdf • Courtesy of Lia Rumantscha, rumantschonline, http://www.rumantsch.ch/ • Map courtesy of Maponics,LLC (http://www.maponics.com); • (Courtesy of State Data Center, University of Arkansas-Little Rock.) 11