TY - BOOK AU - Arnott, Richard J. AU - McMillen, Daniel P. TI - A companion to urban economics SN - 9781405179683 (pbk.) U1 - 330.91732 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Malden, MA PB - Blackwell Pub. KW - Urban economics N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; The micro-empirics of agglomeration / Stuart Rosenthal and Will Stra nge -- Human capital externalities in cities : identification and polic y issues / Gilles Duranton -- The first cities / Arthur O’Sullivan -- Urbanization in less developed countries and transition economies / St ephen Malpezzi -- The spatial pattern of land use in the U.S. / Elena I rwin and Nancy Bockstael -- Monocentric cities / Marvin Kraus -- Space in general equilibrium / Marcus Berliant and Courtney LaFountain -- Tes ting for monocentricity / Daniel McMillen -- The economic theory of hou sing tenure choice / Franz Hubert -- Housing policy : low-income househ olds in France / Anne Laferrère and David LeBlanc -- Housing demand : an international perspective / Miki Seko -- Discrimination in mortgage lending / Anthony Yezer -- Commercial real estate / David Geltner -- H ousing price indexes / Bradford Case -- Urban transport economic theory / Yoshitsugu Kanemoto -- Urban passenger travel demand / André de Pa lma, Robin Lindsey, and Nathalie Picard -- Urban transportation and lan d use / John McDonald -- Urban transport policies : the Dutch struggle with market failures and policy failures / Piet Rietveld -- Financing c ities / Robert Inman -- Strategic interaction among governments / Jan B rueckner -- Property and land taxation / John Wilson -- A theory of mun icipal corporate governance with an application to land use regulation / William Fischel -- Urban labor markets / Timothy Bartik and Randall E berts -- A primer on spatial mismatch within urban labor markets / Keit h Ihlanfeldt -- Urban labor economic theory / Yves Zenou -- Macroeconom ic analysis using regional data : an application to monetary policy / G erald Carlino and Robert DeFina -- Measuring and analyzing urban employ ment fluctuations / Edward Coulson -- Quality of life / Glenn Blomquist -- Air pollution in cities / Matthew Kahn -- Urban crime, race, and th e criminal justice system in the United States / Stephen Raphael and Me lissa Sills -- Ethnic segregation and ghettos / Alex Anas ER -