SPATIAL ECONOMICS

In the introduction, editor Fujita (economics, Kyoto U.) explains that the subject of "what types of economic activity take place where and why" has fallen under the umbrella of location theory or economic geography and has been studied in various contexts including urban, international trade, and regional economics. The particular concern of this collection of reprinted articles is the economics of agglomeration - the clustering of economic activity. Thirty-five selections are arranged in two volumes in sections on the fundamentals of geographical economics, the morphology of cities, new economic geography, and urban systems. The material is not indexed (except by author name). Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR