Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Facts about Urban Production Patterns
2: Modeling the System of Cities in an Economy
3: Growth, Technological Change, and Economic Development
4: Trade and Natural Resources
5: Evidence on the Nature of Agglomeration Effects
6: Population Composition of Cities: Bright Lights or Productivity
7: Government Policies Creating Unintended Spatial Distortions
8: Industrial Location Policies: Illusion and Remedy
9: City Size Policies and Laissez-Faire
10: Empirical Determinants of Urban Concentration
11: Urban Issues in a Planned Economy: China
12: Conclusions
References
Index

Reviews

"As a thorough and systematic exposition of how urban economies function, it is to be warmly welcomed."--Urban Studies
"A book of major importance that should become a key building block for urban theorists and a reference point for policy analysis in the coming decade....Establishes the benchmark against which further neoclassical models, nonneoclassical models, and critiques of economic spatial theory will be evaluated--and developed."--Journal of Regional Science
"As a thorough and systematic exposition of how urban economies function, it is to be warmly welcomed."--Urban Studies
"[An] impressive collection."--Journal of Developing Areas
"A most interesting and useful book, weaving several of J.V. Henderson's most important essays into a coherent whole and adding significant new research. It is theoretically rigorous, yet accessible to nonspecialists because of concise chapter summaries and policy-oriented chapters. All things considered, Henderson has produced a book that will be the standard reference in urban economic development for some years."--Andrew R. Morrison, Tulane
University (in Journal of Economic Literature)
"It's about time someone wrote this book, and nobody is better qualified than J. Vernon Henderson>"--Scott McKinney, Hobart and William Smith College
"An impressive presentation."--Roger Riefler, University of Nebraska
""A definitive work in the genre."--Choice