Regional Science: Perspectives for the Future

This book contains up-to-date original contributions by some of the world's best known experts in the area of urban and regional science. Regional science provides the theoretical basis of urban and regional planning. The subject covers such topics as regional development, regional accounts, spatial price computation, regional and interregional knowledge networks and measurement of regional quality of life. A considerable amount of change has taken place in the spatial pattern of socio-economic activities and their interactions over the last half of the century leading to the need for more advanced tools of analysis in regional science. This book fulfils this need.

List of Tables and Figures - Foreword; W.Isard - Notes on Contributors - Introduction; M.Chatterji - Urban Systems and Regional Development; M.Fujita & P.Krugman - Linked System of Enterprise, Regional and National Input-Output Accounts for Policy Analysis; K.Polenske -Dynamic Price Patterns in Spatial Oligopolistic Markets: the Impact of Lagged Quantity Adjustments; R.Schuler - Spatial Aspects of Knowledge Networks: The Case of Scientific Collaboration at a Distance; M.Beckmann - Measuring the Regional Quality of Life; J.H.P.Paelinck - Innovative Environments: Concept and Application; M.U.Proulx - Intergenerational Transfers in a Framework of Fused Regional Accounts; S.Czamanski - Uncertainty as a Management Evaluation Tool for Infrastructure Projects; K.E.Haynes, F.F.Philips & R.Srivastva - Simulating Regional Systems: A System Dynamics Approach; C.Lee - Applied Spatial Informatics as a Framework for Natural Disaster Mitigation; G.G.van der Meulen - Climate Change and the Social Sciences: Global and Regional Issues; P.Nijkamp & C.Wilderom - Regional Planning Implications of Climate Changes - A.S.Bailly - Economic Geography with Division of Labour and Amenity Difference; W-B.Zhang - Comparative Analysis of Intercity Agglomeration; T.Kawashima, I.Azis & M.Tane - The North American Free Trade Agreement: Implications for US Regions; N.Hansen - Regional Science and New Regional Policy in Russia; A.Granberg - Socio-Economic Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe from the Perspective of Regional Science; R.Domanski - Integration Processes and Foreign Investment in Central Europe: A Regional Perspective; T.Marszal - The Trends of the 1990s: Man and Business Facing a World of Multiple Choices; A.Sallez - Dynamic Takeoff-Accelerating Effects of a Continental Expressway; H.Kohno & Y.Higano - Identifying the Direct and Indirect Economic Effects of Electric Power Development Projects; T.Hayashi & S.Saltzman - A Multi-Regional Model Project Impact Based on Price and Quantity Equilibrium; A.Ando & T.Shibata - Incorporating A Model for Trip Generation, Trip Distribution and Mode Choice; L.Su, S.Kawakami & N.Aoshima - Planning for National Development: An Agenda Guided by the Socio-Economic System's Social Philosophy; S.C.W.Salvary - MegaProject Impact Assessment; R.E.Stough & K.E.Haynes - Regional Science and Nation State Development -T.Takayama & J.Williams - Postscript; M.Chatterji - Index