This volume is a follow-up to the earlier "Urban Economics, Volume
2" of "Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics," edited by Edwin
Mills. The earlier volume, published in 1987, focussed on urban
economic theory. This new handbook, in contrast, focuses on applied
urban research. The difference is of course in emphasis. The
earlier volume was by no means entirely concerned with theoretical
research and this one is by no means entirely concerned with
applied research.
There have certainly been important theoretical developments during
the last decade, and they are surveyed at appropriate places in
this volume. However, there has been an outpouring of high quality
applied research in urban economics, as in other specialties. The
reasons for the rapid growth of applied research are not difficult
to identify; improved theoretical frameworks within which to do
applied research; improved econometric techniques and software;
more and better data; and, probably most important, ever cheaper
computing power, which is being ever more widely distributed within
the research community, providing increasingly easy access to and
analysis of, data.
Selection and classification of topics to include in this handbook
has inevitably depended on the editors' perceptions of subjects on
which important research has been undertaken. It has also depended
on the availability of authors who were able and willing to write
critical surveys of large amounts of international research. An
attempt was made to include authors and have them survey research
from a variety of countries. However, there is still a US bias in
applied urban research, partly related to the availability of data
and computers but also to the sheer size of the US research
community.
For more information on the Handbooks in Economics series, please
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