Daniel P. McMillen is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Urban Real Estate at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and is also a Research Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He is a member of the editorial boards of several urban economics and real estate journals, including the Journal of Urban Economics and Real Estate Economics, and is co-editor, with Richard J. Arnott, of A Companion to Urban Economics (Blackwell, 2006).
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Part I: Economics and Urban Areas:.
1. Introduction to Urban Economics.
2. Schools of Thought in Urban Economics.
3. Location Decisions, Agglomeration Economies, and the Origins of Cities.
4. The Economic Functions of Cities.
Part II: Location Patterns in Urban Areas:.
5. Introduction to Urban Location Patterns: Static Analysis.
6. Using the Monocentric City Model.
7. Empirical Testing of the Moncentric City Model.
Part III: Urban Housing and Real Estate:.
8. Housing in Urban Areas.
9. Housing Policy in the United States.
10. Real Estate Law and Institutions.
11. Real Estate Markets.
12. Real Estate Development and Investment.
Part IV: Government in Urban Areas:.
13. The Public Sector in Urban Areas.
14. Urban Transportation.
Part V: Urban Social Problems:.
15. An Overview of Urban Social Problems.
16. Urban Poverty and Its Spatial Concentration.
17. Crime in Urban Areas.
18. Education, Labor Markets, and Migration.
Part VI: Urban Growth:.
19. Models of Metropolitan Economic Growth.
20. Agglomeration Economies, Technical Change, and Urban Growth.
21. Economic Development Policies for Urban Areas.
Appendix: A Review of Some Mathematics and Microeconomic Theory.
Answers to Selected Exercises.
Index