Edited by Yoran Shiftan, Kenneth Button, Peter Nijkamp
Transportation planning deals with the ways in which governments at various levels try to ensure the effective and efficient movement of people and goods. For this collection, the editors have selected the key previously published papers...
Edited by Hugo Priemus, Kenneth Button, Peter Nijkamp
‘The practices of land use planning are being given increasing attention these days in the challenge to create sustainable environments of high quality, available to everyone. This collection performs a valuable service in making availab...
Edited by Michael Wegener, Kenneth Button, Peter Nijkamp
Planning as deliberate preparation for future action is as old as human history. Agricultural land allocation and cities were always planned, as were military warfare and defence. With the growing complexity of society in the 19th centur...
‘Contemporary cities are of at least two kinds: those that are vibrant and growing and those that are lagging. While this is nothing new the reasons are, at least in part, different than in past generations. This book is a collection of...
‘Masahisa Fujita is undoubtedly the leading scholar in spatial economics. Being the (co-) author of the two main books in urban economics and economics of geography, he was especially well qualified to edit this collection of readings in...
In this authoritative collection, Paul Cheshire and Gilles Duranton have brought together the most significant contributions to regional and urban economics since 1990. The volume presents papers on theoretical and empirical analyses of ...
The last half century has seen the rise across Europe of a new intermediate level of government and politics, usually referred to as a region. However the term ‘region’ means many different things and can be approached from many differen...
This authoritative collection reprints the key articles in the field of locational clustering, and the relationship between local clusters and the activities of multinational firms. It covers both the principal theoretical and statistica...
‘It provides the reader with an excellent overview.’
– Mike Heslop, The Journal of Energy Literature The past decade has seen both some new trends in the economics of transportation and the reinforcement of work from previous periods. E...
Edited by Piet Rietveld, Kenneth Button, Peter Nijkamp
‘The latest volume in the Edward Elgar series on classic papers tackles urban transport analysis. 37 papers have been selected to cover some of the key economic aspects of demand, supply of public transport, external costs, policy (inclu...
Edited by Lars Lundqvist, Kenneth Button, Peter Nijkamp
‘The book succeeds very well in its objective of collecting renowned articles on different automobile-related topics. The approach of mixing old and new material; spanning four decades (1961–2000), is well thought-out, because some of th...
