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Nature and Scope of Regional and Urban Economics

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

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  1. Nature and Scope of Regional and Urban Economics Chapter 1 1

  2. Earth at Night 2

  3. Skyline of Houston 3

  4. 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

  5. Regions • Functional (regional homogeneity) • Administrative (political subdivisions) 5

  6. Europe’s Blue Banana and the corresponding Boomerang 6

  7. Linguistic Map of Switzerland 7

  8. Bible Belt 8

  9. Tornado Alley 9

  10. Space and traditional economics • Spatial market structures • Regional growth policies and theories • Local public finance 10

  11. 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

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