Masahisa Fujita: 2 books
Economics of Agglomeration
Cities, Industrial Location, and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Economic activities are not concentrated on the head of a pin, nor are they spread evenly over a featureless plane. On the contrary, they are distributed very unequally across locations, regions and countries. Even though economic activities are, to some extent, spatially concentrated because of natural...
The Spatial Economy
Cities, Regions, and International Trade
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2001
The authors show how a common approach that emphasizes the three-way interaction among increasing returns, transportation costs, and the movement of productive factors can be applied to a wide range of issues in urban, regional, and international economics.
Since 1990 there has been a renaissance...