Series statement from jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

I. Principles of Planning and Urban Economics -- -- Teaching urban economics to planners and the role of urban planning to economists / Nancy Brooks -- Principles of planning for economists / Nikhil Kaza and Gerrit-Jan Knaap -- What planners need to know about the 'new urban economics' / Richard Arnott -- -- II. Urban Structure, Growth and the Development Process -- -- Managing change in urban infrastructure systems / Kieran Donaghy -- Urban structure and economic growth / Peter Gordon and Harry Richardson -- Discovering the efficiency of urban sprawl / Alex Anas -- Urban decentralization, suburbanization and sprawl : An equity perspective / Joseph Persky and Wim Wiewel -- The role of industrial clustering and increasing returns to scale in economic development and urban growth / Philip McCann -- -- III. Social and Equity Issues -- -- Social interactions within cities : Neighborhood environments and peer relationships / Stephen Ross -- Does working together prevent crime? : Social capital, neighborhoods and crime / Hyunsun Choi and David Sloane -- The drug war and inner-city neighborhoods / William W. Goldsmith -- Homelessness in the United States / Brendan O'Flaherty -- Urban poverty, economic segregation, and urban policy / Paul A. Jargowsky -- Racial residential segregation in American cities / Leah Platt Boustan -- Spatial assimilation and its discontents : The changing geography of immigrant integration in metropolitan America / Manuel Pastor -- Gentrification : The perspectives of economists and planners / Ingrid Gould Ellen and Katherine O'Regan -- -- IV. Urban Land Use and Transportation Policy -- -- Economic and planning approaches to natural disasters / Yasuhide Okuyama and Stephanie Chang -- Housing markets, prices, and policies / Richard Green -- The economics of zoning / John F. McDonald and Daniel P. McMillen -- Exclusionary land use policies : Economic rationales and legal remedies / Casey J. Dawkins -- Infill development : Perspectives and evidence from economics and planning / Virginia McConnell and Keith Wiley -- The economics of new urbanism and smart growth : Comparing price gains and costs between new urbanist and conventional developments / Yan Song and Mark Stevens -- Toward a second generation of land use/travel models with an application to path choice / Randall Crane and Zhan Guo -- Transportation economics for planners in the 21st century / Aisling Reynolds-Feighan and Roger Vickerman -- Transportation policy : Public transit, settlement patterns, and equity in the U.S. / Genevieve Giuliano -- -- V. Economic, Workforce and Human Capital Development -- -- Urban education : Location and opportunity in the United States / Eric A. Hanushek and Kuzey Yilmaz -- The role of the workforce development system in the economic development of urban areas / Kevin Hollenbeck -- The roles of tax incentives and other business incentives in local economic development / Timothy J. Bartik and Randall Eberts -- The interface of urban economics and urban planning in local economic development practice / Richard Schramm -- Framing urban systems and planning concerns as a multi-level problem : A review of the integrated urban system models with an emphasis on their hierarchical structures / Jae Hong Kim and Geoffrey J.D. Hewings -- -- VI. Urban Public Finance and Governance -- -- Fiscal impact analysis and the costs of alternative development patterns / Lorelei Juntunen, Gerrit-Jan Knaap and Terry Moore -- Addressing local fiscal disparities / Tracy M. Gordon -- Land use regulations and property values : The "Windfalls Capture" idea revisited / Rachelle Alterman -- -- VII. International Settings -- -- The high rise & the slum : Speculative urban development in Mumbai / Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava -- Housing informality : An economist's perspective on urban planning / Martim Smolka and Ciro Biderman -- Transportation in African cities : An institutional perspective / Margaret Grieco -- Globalisation and urban growth in the developing world with special reference to Asian countries / Amitabh Kundu -- Third World urban migration as a global sustainability challenge / Thomas Vietorisz -- Urbanization and policy in Japan, South Korea, and China : Policy and reality / Chenri Ding and Xingshuo Zhao.