Econ 316—Urban Economics9/4/02

Research Leads for Urban Economics Topics

Annotations used below: 

WU: available at Wesleyan (implied if only call number is listed)

CC: available at Connecticut College (order through consortium service)

TC: available at Trinity College (order through consortium service)

Websites

Several websites of potential interest are listed at the bottom of the course webpage and can be accessed directly from there. There are doubtless many others that have relevant material. For instance, many cities maintain webpages that contain useful factual material.

Journals

You can check the end-of-chapter references in the textbook for some useful articles, but textbook references are always somewhat dated and you need to search for more recent articles as well.

Journals that contain articles of potential interest include:

Cityscape [HH 1.75/2 - microform]

Economic Development and Cultural Change [HC10.C453]

Economic Development Quarterly [online]
Economic Geography [HF1021.E4 (1925-76; CC has current subscription and online)]

Housing Policy Debate[HD7293.A1.H65 and online]

Journal of Housing Economics[HD7285.J69 at TC and online]

Journal of Housing Research[HD7293.A1.J68 and online]

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management[JA1.J597and online]

Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics [N/A]

Journal of Real Estate Literature[online]

Journal of Real Estate Research[online]

Journal of Regional Science [H62.J65 (1958-75; CC has current subscription)]

Journal of Transportation and Statistics[online]

Journal of Urban Economics[HT321.J68 and online]

Journal of Urban History[HT111.J68 at TC and online]

Land Economics[HB1.L354 and online]

Public Interest [H1.P8]

Real Estate Economics[HD251.A493a and online; name change from Journal of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association]

Urban Studies[HT103.U7 and online]

Also consider searching periodical indexes for magazines and newspaper articles to provide factual background on particular cities and/or policies.

Many general-interest economics journals also contain occasional articles on urban economics topics. The main index for economics articles is EconLit . You can do subject searches of this index.

Recent Research on Urban Economics
Below I have listed potentially relevant books (and a few articles) that are not mentioned in the textbook (generally because they have come out more recently). You should also check the end-of-chapter references in the textbook for useful readings. I have attempted to order as many as possible of the books listed therein for the Wesleyan library.

Development:

• Banking on Black Enterprise: The Potential of Emerging Firms for Revitalizing Urban Economies , Timothy Bates, 1992, University Press of America. WU
• Bidding for Business: The Efficacy of Local Economic Development Incentives in a Metropolitan Area , John E. Anderson and Robert W. Wassmer, Upjohn Institute, 2000. N/A
• Cities, Poverty and Development: Urbanization in the Third World , Second Edition,Alan Gilbert and Josef Gugler, 1992, Oxford. WU/CC/TC
• Empowerment in Chicago: Grassroots Participation in Economic Development and Poverty Alleviation , Cedric Herring, 1998, Illinois. WU
• Enterprise Zones: New Directions in Economic Development , Roy E. Green (ed.), 1991, Sage. CC/TC
• Environmentally Devastated Neighborhoods: Perceptions, Policies, and Realities , Michael R. Greenberg and Dona Schneider, 1996, Rutgers. TC
• Foreign Direct Investment in the United States: Magnitudes and Location Choice of New Manufacturing Plants , Jan Ondrich and Michael Wasylenko, 1993, Upjohn. WU
• Here’s the Deal: the Buying and Selling of a Great American City , Ross Miller, 1996, Knopf. WU/TC
• Industrial Incentives: Competition Among American States and Cities , Peter S. Fisher and Alan H. Peters, 1998, Upjohn. TC.
• New Dimensions in Regional Integration , Jaime de Melo and Arvind Panagariya (eds.), 1993, Cambridge. WU
• Peasants Versus City-Dwellers: Taxation and the Burden of Economic Development , Raaj K. Sah and Joseph E. Stiglitz, 1993, Clarendon. WU
• Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice (second edition) , Edward J. Blakely, 1994, Sage. WU
• Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 , AnnaLee Saxenian, 1994, Harvard University Press. WU/TC/CC
• The Sports Franchise Game: Cities in Pursuit of Sports Franchises, Events, Stadiums, and Arenas , Kenneth Shropshire, 1995, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. WU/TC
• "What Should the Federal Government be Doing about Urban Economic Development?" Timothy J. Bartik, Cityscape , 8/94, Vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 267-291.
• Who Benefits from State and Local Economic Development Policies? , Timothy J. Bartik, 1991, Upjohn Institute. WU/TC

Economic theory:

• "Complexity and Emergent Structure in the International Economy," Paul Krugman, in New Directions in Trade Theory, Jim, Levinsohn, Alan V. Deardorff, and Robert M.Stern eds., 1995, Univ. of Michigan Press, pp. 23-46. WU
• Economics of Cities: Theoretical Perspectives , Jean-Marie Huriot, Jacques-Francoise Thisse (eds.), 2000, Cambridge. WU
• "Inner Cities," Edwin S. Mills and Luan Sendé Lubuele, Journal of Economic Literature ,6/97, Vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 727-756.
• "Space: The Final Frontier," Paul Krugman, Journal of Economic Perspectives , Spring/98, Vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 161-174.
• "Urban Spatial Structure," Alex Anas, Richard Arnott, and Kenneth A. Small, Journal of Economic Literature , 9/98, Vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 1426-1464.

History:

• Cities and Economic Development: From the Dawn of History to the Present , Paul Bairoch, 1988, University of Chicago. WU
• Cities, Peasants, and Food in Classical Antiquity: Essaays in social and Economic History, Peter Garnsey, 1998, Cambridge. WU/TC/CC
• "The Talk of the Town: Human Capital, Information, and the Growth of English Cities, 1861 to 1961," Curtis J. Simon and Clark Nardinelli, Explorations in Economic History 7/96, Vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 384-413.
• Urbanization in History: A Process of Dynamic Interaction , Ad Van Der Woude, Akira Hayami, and Jan De Vries (eds.), 1990, Oxford. WU/TC/CC

Homelessness:

• America’s Homeless: Numbers, Characteristics, and Programs that Serve Them , Martha R. Burt and Barbara E. Cohen, 1989, Urban Institute. WU/CC/TC
• Beside the Golden Door: Policy, Politics and the Homeless , James D. Wright, Beth A. Rubin, and Joel A. Devine, 1998, de Gruyter. WU
• The Continuum of Care: A Report on the New Federal Policy to Address Homelessness, Ester Fuchs and William McAllister, 1996, U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Dev. WU/TC/CC
• Down and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness , Peter H. Rossi, 1989, University of Chicago Press. CC/TC
• The Homeless, Christopher Jencks, 1994, Harvard University Press. WU/CC/TC 
• Homelessness: Programs and the People They Serve: Findings of the National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clie nts, Martha R. Burt, et.al., 1999, U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development. WU (Gov-Doc)
• Homelessness and Social Policy , Roger Burrows, Nicholas Pleace and Deborah Quilgars, 1997, Routledge. WU
• Homelessness in America, Jim Baumohl for the National Coalition for the Homeless, 1996, Oryx. WU
• Homelessness in the United States: Volume I: State Surveys; Volume II: Data and Issues , Jamshid A. Momeni, 1989, Greenwood Press. WU/CC/TC
• International Critical Perspectives on Homelessness , Mary Jo Huth and Talmadge Wright, 1997, Praeger. WU/TC
• Making Room: The Economics of Homelessness , Brendan O’Flaherty, 1996, HarvardUniversity Press. WU/TC.
• The Politics of Ending Homelessness , Susan Yeich, 1994, University Press of America. WU
• Without Shelter: Homelessness in the 1980s , Peter H. Rossi, 1989, Brookings. CC/TC

Housing:

• Affordable Housing and Urban Redevelopment in the United States , Willem van Vliet, 1997, Sage. WU
• Crossing the Class and Color Lines: From Public Housing to White Suburbia , Leonard S. Rubinowitz et.al., 2000, Chicago. WU
• A Decent Place to Live: From Columbia Point to Harbor Point ­ a Community History,Jane Roessner, 2000, Northeastern. WU
• Economic Restructuring of the Former Soviet Bloc: the Case of Housing , Raymond J. Struyk, 1996, Urban Institute. TC
• From Tenements to the Taylor Homes: inSearch of an Urban Housing Policy in Twentieth Century America , John F. Baumann, Roger Biles, & Kristin Szylvian, 2000, Pennsylvania State University. WU
• "Growth Management and Housing Prices: The Case of Portland, OR," Justin Phillips and Eban Goodstein, Contemporary Economic Policy , 7/2000.
• Handbook of Housing and the Built Environment in the United States , Elizabeth Huttman and Willem van Vliet (eds.), 1988, Greenwood Press. CC
• The Home Front: Implications of Welfare Reform for Housing Policy , Sandra J. Newman (ed.), 1999, Urban Institute. TC
• Households and Housing: Choice and Outcomes in the Housing Market , William A.V. Clark and Frans M. Dieleman, 1996, Center for Urban Policy Research (CUPR), Rutgers. TC
• Housing America’s Poor, Peter D. Salins (ed.), 1987, UNC Press. WU/CC
• Housing and Neighborhoods: Theoretical and Empirical Contributions , Willem van Vliet, Harvey Choldin, William Michelson, and David Popenoe (eds.), 1987, Greenwood Press. WU
• Housing Issues of the 1990s, Sara Rosenberry and Chester Hartman (eds.), 1989, Praeger. TC
• Housing Markets and Residential Mobility , G. Thomas Kingsley and Margery Austin Turner (eds.), 1993, Urban Institute. WU
• Housing Partnerships: A New Approach to a Market at a Crossroads , Andrew Caplin, Sewin Chan, Charles Freeman, and Joseph Tracy, 1997, MIT. CC
• International Handbook of Housing Policies and Practices , Willem van Vliet (ed.), 1990, Greenwood Press. CC
• The Maze of Urban Housing Markets: Theory, Evidence, and Policy , Jerome Rothenberg, George C. Galster, Richard V. Butler, and John R. Pitkin, 1991, University of Chicago. WU
• Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era , Gail Radford, 1996, Chicago. WU/TC/CC
• National Urban Policy: Problems and Prospects , Harold L. Wolman and Elizabeth J. Agius, 1996, Wayne State. WU/TC
• New Life at Ground Zero: New York, Home Ownership, and the Future of American Cities, Charles J. Orlebeke, 1997, Rockefeller Institute Press. WU
• Segregation in Federally Subsidized Low-Income Housing in the United States , Mobido Coulibaly, Rodney D. Green, and David M. James, 1998, Praeger. TC

International:

• Cities of Hope: People, Protests, and Progress in Urbanizing Latin America, 1870-1930 , Ronn Pineo and James A. Baer, 1998, Westview. WU/TC/CC
• The Future of African Cities: Challenges and Priorities for Urban Development , Catherine Farvacque-Vitkovic, Lucien Godin, 1998, World Bank. WU/CC
• Globalization and Survival in the Black Diaspora: the New Urban Challenge , Charles Green, 1997, State University of New York Press. WU/TC/CC
• Housing Policy and Practice in China , Alan Murie and Ya Ping Wang, 1997, St. Martin's. WU
• The Mega-City in Latin America , Alan Gilbert (ed.), 1996, United Nations University Press. TC
• Migration, Urbanization, and Development: New Directions and Issues , Richard E. Bilsborrow, 1998, Kluwer. WU
• Understanding the Developing Metropolis: Lessons from the City Study of Bogotá and Cali, Colombia , Rakesh Mohan, 1994, Oxford University Press. WU/TC
• Urban change in the United States and Western Europe: Comparative analysis and policy . Summers, Anita A., Cheshire, Paul C. Lanfranco, Senn, eds., 1993, Urban Institute Press. WU/TC
• Urban Public Finance in Developing Countries , Roy W. Bahl and Johannes Linn, 1992, World Bank. WU
• Urbanization and Economic Growth , Vibhooti Shukla, edited by Tara Shukla and Satchit Srinivasan, 1997, Oxford [about India]. WU
• An Urbanizing World: Global Report on Human Settlements, 1996 , United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (HABITAT), 1996, Oxford University Press. WU/TC/CC

Labor Markets:

• Opportunities Denied, Opportunities Diminished: Racial Discrimination in Hiring , Raymond J. Struyk, Margery Austin Turner, and Michael Fix, 1991, Urban Institute. WU
• Urban Labor Markets and Job Opportunity , George E. Peterson and Wayne Vroman (eds.), 1992, Urban Institute. WU/TC
• Urban Structure and the Labour Market: Worker Mobility, Commuting, and Underemployment in Cities , Wayne Simpson, Oxford, 1992. WU/TC
• Wage and Employment Adjustment in Local Labor Markets , Randall W. Eberts and Joe A Stone, 1992, Upjohn Institute. WU

Political Economy; Critiques of neoclassical urban economics:

• Dual City: Restructuring New York , John Hull Mollenkopf and Manuel Castells (eds.),1991, Sage Foundation. WU/TC/CC
• Social Justice and the City, David M. Harvey, 1973, Edward Arnold. WU/CC
• Space, Place and Gender, Doreen B. Massey, 1994, University of Minnesota. WU
• The Urban Question: A Marxist Approach , Manuel Castells, 1977, Edward Arnold. WU/TC/CC

Poverty/Segregation:

• The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis , Barry Bluestone and Mary Huff Stevenson, 2000, Russell Sage. WU/TC
• Coping with Poverty: The Social Contexts of Neighborhood, Work, and Family in the African-American Community , Sheldon Danziger & Ann Chich Lin, 2000, Michigan. WU
• Detroit Divided, Reynolds Farley, Sheldon Danziger, and Harry J. Holzer, 2000, Russell Sage. WU
• Drugs, Crime, and Social Isolation: Barriers to Urban Opportunity , Adele V. Harrell and George E. Peterson, 1992, Urban Institute. WU/TC
• The Inner City: Urban Poverty and Economic Developoment [sic] in the Next Century, Thomas D. Boston and Catherine L. Ross, 1997, Transaction. TC
• Job Accessibility and the Employment and School Enrollment of Teenagers , Keith R. Ihlanfeldt, 1992, Upjohn. WU
• The Metropolis in Black and White: Place, Power, and Polarization , George C. Galster and Edward W. Hill (eds.), 1992, Center for Urban Policy Research (CUPR), Rutgers. WU/TC
• Poverty and Place: Ghettos, Barrios and the American City , Paul A. Jargowsky, 1997 Russell Sage. WU/TC/CC
• Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles , Lawrence D. Bobo, Melvin L. Oliver, James H. Johnson Jr. and Abel Valenzuela (eds.), 2000, Russell Sage. WU
• Renewing Hope within Neighborhoods of Despair: the Community-Based Development Model, Herbert J. Rubin, 2000, SUNY. WU
• Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty, and the Underclass , Christopher Jencks, 1992, Harvard University Press. WU Reserve/CC/TC
• Still the Promised City? African-Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New York, Roger Waldinger, 1996, Harvard University Press. WU/TC/CC
• The Triumphs of Joseph: How Today’s Community Healers are Reviving Our Streets and Neighborhoods , Robert L. Woodson, Sr., 1998, Free Press. WU/TC
• The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy , William Julius Wilson, 1987, University of Chicago Press. WU Reserve/CC/TC
• The Urban Crisis: Linking Research to Action , Burton A. Weisbrod & James C. Worthy, 1997, Northwestern. TC
• "Urban Labor Markets and Young Black Men: A Literature Review," Curtis Skinner, Journal of Economic Issues , 3/95, Vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 47-65.
• The Urban Underclass, Christopher Jencks and Paul E. Peterson (eds.), 1991, Brookings.WU/CC/TC
• When Work Disappears, William J. Wilson, Vintage, 1997. WU/CC

Privatization:

• The Privatization Decision: Public Ends, Private Means , John D. Donahue, 1989, Basic Books. WU/CC/TC
• When Government Goes Private: Successful Alternatives to Public Services , Randall Fitzgerald, 1988, Pacific Research Institute. WU/CC/TC

Public Finance:

• Can the States Afford Devolution?: the Fiscal Implications of Shifting Federal Responsibilities to State and Local Governments , Harold A. Hovey, 1999, Century Foundation. WU
• Management Policies in Local Government Finance , J. Richard Aronson and Eli Schwartz, eds., 1996, ICMA. TC
• Metropolitics: a Regional Agenda for Community and Stability , Myron Orfield, 1997, Brookings. WU/TC/CC
• Property Taxes and Tax Revolts: The Legacy of Proposition 13 , Arthur O’Sullivan, Terri A.Sexton, and Steven M. Sheffrin, 1995, Cambridge. WU
• Regulation for Revenue: The Political Economy of Land Use Exactions , Alan A. Altshuler and José A. Gómez-Ibáñez with Arnold Howitt, 1993, Brookings. WU/TC

Rent Control:

• Housing Market Impacts of Rent Control: The Washington, D.C. Experience , Margery A. Turner, 1990, Urban Institute. TC
• Rent Control: Regulation and the Rental Housing Market , W. Dennis Keating, 1998, Center for Urban Policy Research. TC 
• Scarcity by Design: The Legacy of New York City’s Housing Policies , Peter D. Salins and Gerard C.S. Mildner, 1992, Harvard University. WU

Restructuring:

• Housing Rehabilitation: Economic, Social and Policy Perspectives , David Listokin (ed.), 1983, Rutgers. WU/TC
• Local Economic Development: a Geographical Comparison of Rural Community Restructuring , Cecily Neil and Markku Tykkylainen, 1998, United Nations. WU
• The Rough Road to Renaissance: Urban Revitalization in America 1940-1985 , John C. Teaford,1990, Johns Hopkins University Press. WU/CC/TC

Transportation:

• Alternate Route: Toward Efficient Urban Transportation, Clifford Winston and Chad Shirley, 1998, Brookings. WU
• Celebrating Livable Communities: "Built for Citizens, Built by Citizens ", Federal Transit Administration, 1999, WU (Gov Docs).
• Curb Rights: A Foundation for Free Enterprise in Urban Transit , Daniel B. Klein, Adrian T. Moore, and Binyam Reja, 1997, Brookings. WU/TC
• Essays in Transportation Economics and Policy: a Handbook in Honor of John R. Meyer , Jose A.Gomez-Ibanez, William B. Tye, Clifford Winston, eds. 1999, Brookings. WU
• No Car? No Problem!: Innovative Transportation Solutions , 1999, Neighborhood Networks. WU (Gov Docs)
• Summary of National and Regional Travel Trends, 1970-1995 , Scott M. Festin, 1996, U.S. Federal Highway Administration. WU/TC
• Transport Economics, Second Edition, Kenneth J. Button, 1993, Elgar. WU
• Transport, the Environment and Economic Policy , Kenneth J. Button, 1993, Elgar. WU

U.S.--Future Patterns:

• Alternatives to Sprawl, Dwight Young, 1996, Brookings. WU/TC
• Atop the Urban Hierarchy, Robert A. Beauregard (ed.), 1989, Rowman & Littlefield. CC/TC
• Breaking Away: The Future of U.S. Cities , Julia Vittulo-Martin (ed.), 1996, Twentieth Century Fund. WU/TC
• City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World , Witold Rybczynski, 1995, Scribner. TC
• Cities Without Suburbs, David Rusk, 1993, Johns Hopkins University. WU/CC/TC
• Edge City: Life on the New Frontier , Joel Garreau, 1991, Doubleday. WU/CC/TC
• The Future of Cities: Essays Based on a Series of Lectures Sponsored by the WorcesterMunicipal Research Bureau , David Lewis Schaefer, Roberta Rubel Schaefer, 1996, University Press of America. WU
• The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., and the Fate of America’s Big Cities , Fred Siegel, 1997, Free Press. WU/TC
• Inside Game, Outside Game: Winning Strategies for Saving Urban America , David Rusk, 1999, Brookings. WU
• New Visions for Metropolitan America , Anthony Downs, 1994, Brookings and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. WU/TC
• Reagan and the Cities, George E. Peterson and Carol W. Lewis (eds.), 1986, Urban Institute. WU/CC/TC
• Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream , Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk , and Jeff Speck, 2000, North Point. WU