The Oxford handbook of urban economics and planning / edited by Nancy Brooks, Kieran Donaghy, Gerrit-Jan Knaap.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents:
• expandFront Matter
• IntroductionNancy Brooks, Kieran Donaghy, and Gerrit‐Jan Knaap
• collapsePrinciples of Planning and Urban Economics
o Teaching Urban Economics to Planners and the Role of Urban Planning to EconomistsNancy Brooks
o Principles of Planning for EconomistsNikhil Kaza and Gerrit‐Jan Knaap
o What Planners Need to Know about the “New Urban Economics”Richard Arnott
• collapseUrban Structure, Growth, and the Development Process
o Managing Change in Urban Infrastructure SystemsKieran P. Donaghy
o Urban Structure and Economic GrowthPeter Gordon and Harry W. Richardson
o Discovering the Efficiency of Urban SprawlAlex Anas
o Urban Decentralization, Suburbanization, and Sprawl: An Equity PerspectiveJoseph Persky and Wim Wiewel
o The Role of Industrial Clustering and Increasing Returns to Scale in Economic Development and Urban GrowthPhilip McCann
• collapseSocial and Equity Issues
o Social Interactions within Cities: Neighborhood Environments and Peer RelationshipsStephen L. Ross
o Does Working Together Prevent Crime? Social Capital, Neighborhoods, and CrimeHyunsun Choi and David Sloane
o The Drug War and Inner-City NeighborhoodsWilliam W. Goldsmith
o Homelessness in the United StatesBrendan O'Flaherty
o Urban Poverty, Economic Segregation, and Urban PolicyPaul A. Jargowsky
o Racial Residential Segregation in American CitiesLeah Platt Boustan
o Spatial Assimilation and Its Discontents: The Changing Geography of Immigrant Integration in Metropolitan AmericaManuel Pastor
o Gentrification: Perspectives of Economists and PlannersIngrid Gould Ellen and Katherine O'Regan
• collapseUrban Land-Use and Transportation Policy
o Economic and Planning Approaches to Natural DisastersYasuhide Okuyama and Stephanie E. Chang
o Housing Markets, Prices, and PoliciesRichard K. Green
o The Economics of ZoningJohn F. McDonald and Daniel P. McMillen
o Exclusionary Land-Use Policies: Economic Rationales and Legal RemediesCasey J. Dawkins
o Infill Development: Perspectives and Evidence from Economics and PlanningVirginia McConnell and Keith Wiley
o The Economics of New Urbanism and Smart Growth: Comparing Price Gains and Costs between New Urbanist and Conventional DevelopmentsYan Song and Mark Stevens
o Toward a Second Generation of Land-Use/Travel Models: Theoretical and Empirical FrontiersRandall Crane and Zhan Guo
o Transportation Economics for Planners in the Twenty-First CenturyAisling Reynolds‐Feighan and Roger Vickerman
o Transportation Policy: Public Transit, Settlement Patterns, and Equity in the United StatesGenevieve Giuliano
• collapseEconomic, Workforce, and Human Capital Development
o Urban Education: Location and Opportunity in the United StatesEric A. Hanushek and Kuzey Yilmaz
o The Role of the Workforce Development System in the Economic Development of Urban AreasKevin Hollenbeck
o The Roles of Tax Incentives and Other Business Incentives in Local Economic DevelopmentTimothy Bartik and Randall Eberts
o The Interface of Urban Economics and Urban Planning in Local Economic Development PracticeRichard Schramm
o Framing Urban Systems and Planning Concerns as a Multilevel Problem: A Review of the Integrated Urban System Models with an Emphasis on Their Hierarchical StructuresJae Hong Kim and Geoffrey J. D. Hewings
• collapseUrban Public Finance and Governance
o Fiscal Impact Analysis and the Costs of Alternative Development PatternsLorelei Juntunen, Gerrit‐Jan Knaap, and Terry Moore
o Addressing Local Fiscal DisparitiesTracy M. Gordon
o Land-Use Regulations and Property Values: The “Windfalls Capture” Idea RevisitedRachelle Alterman
• collapseInternational Settings
o The High-Rise and the slum: speculative urban development in mumbaiMatias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava
o Housing Informality: An Economist's Perspective on Urban PlanningMartim O. Smolka and Ciro Biderman
o Transportation in African Cities: An Institutional PerspectiveMargaret Grieco
o Globalization and Urban Growth in the Developing World with Special Reference to Asian CountriesAmitabh Kundu
o Third World Urban Migration as a Global Sustainability ChallengeThomas Vietorisz
o Urbanization in Japan, South Korea, and China: Policy and RealityChengri Ding and Xingshuo Zhao
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o Author index
o Subject Index.