The Oxford Handbook of Urban Economics and Planning (Oxford Handbooks)

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This volume embodies a problem-driven and theoretically informed approach to bridging frontier research in urban economics and urban/regional planning. The authors focal point at the interface between these two subdisciplines that have historically had an uneasy relationship.

Although economists were a number of the early contributors to the literature on urban planning, many economists have been dismissive of a discipline whose leading scholars often favor regulations over market institutions, equity over efficiency, and normative prescriptions over positive analysis. Planners, meanwhile, at the same time as they draw upon economic principles, regularly view the work of economists as abstract, not sensitive to institutional contexts, and communicated in a formal language spoken by few with decision making authority. Not surprisingly, papers in the leading economic journals rarely cite clearly pertinent papers in planning journals, and vice versa.

Despite the historical divergence in perspectives and methods, urban economics and urban planning share an intense interest in many topic areas: the nature of cities, the prosperity of urban economies, the provision of urban products and services, efficient systems of transportation, and the right kind allocation of land between urban and environmental uses. In bridging this gap, this book highlights the most efficient scholarship in planning and economics that addresses essentially the most pressing urban problems of our day and will stimulate further dialog between scholars in urban planning and urban economics.

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