Lectures on Urban Economics

Lectures on Urban Economic s offers a rigorous butnontechnical treatment of major topics in urban economics. To make the bookaccessible to a broad range of readers, the analysis is diagrammatic rather thanmathematical. Although nontechnical, the book relies on rigorous economic reasoning.In contrast to the cursory theoretical development often found in other textbooks, Lectures on Urban Economics offers thorough and exhaustivetreatments of models relevant to each topic, with the goal of revealing the logic ofeconomic reasoning while also teaching urban economics. Topics covered includereasons for the existence of cities, urban spatial structure, urban sprawl andland-use controls, freeway congestion, housing demand and tenure choice, housingpolicies, local public goods and services, pollution, crime, and quality of life.Footnotes throughout the book point to relevant exercises, which appear at the backof the book. These 22 extended exercises (containing 125 individual parts) developnumerical examples based on the models analyzed in the chapters. Lectureson Urban Economics is suitable for undergraduate use, as backgroundreading for graduate students, or as a professional reference for economists andscholars interested in the urban economics perspective.