Includes bibliographical references and index.

The micro-empirics of agglomeration economies / Stuart S. Rosenthal and William C. Strange -- Human capital externalities in cities : identification and policy issues / Gilles Duranton -- The first cities / Arthur O'Sullivan -- Cross-country patterns of urban development / Stephen Malpezzi -- The spatial pattern of land use in the United States / Elena G. Irwin and Nancy E. Bockstael -- Monocentric cities / Marvin Kraus -- Space in general equilibrium / Marcus Berliant and Courtney LaFountain -- Testing for monocentricity / Daniel P. McMillen -- The economic theory of housing tenure choice / Franz Hubert -- Housing policy : low-income households in France / Anne Laferre and David Le Blanc -- Housing demand : an international perspective / Miki Seko -- Discrimination in mortgage lending / Anthony M. Yezer -- Commercial real estate / David Geltner -- Housing price indexes / Bradford Case -- Urban transport economic theory / Yoshitsugu Kanemoto -- Urban passenger travel demand / Andre de Palma, Robin Lindsey, and Nathalie Picard -- Urban transportation and land use / John F. McDonald -- Urban transport policies : the Dutch struggle with market failures and policy failures / Piet Rietveld -- Financing cities / Robert P. Inman -- Strategic interaction among governments / Jan K. Brueckner -- Property and land taxation / John Douglas Wilson -- A theory of municipal corporate governance with an application to land-use regulation / William A. Fischel -- Urban labor markets / Timothy J. Bartik and Randall W. Eberts -- A primer on spatial mismatch within urban labor markets / Keith Ihlanfeldt -- Urban labor economic theory / Yves Zenou -- Macroeconomic analysis using regional data : an application to monetary policy / Gerald A. Carlino and Robert H. DeFina -- Measuring and analyzing urban employment fluctuations / N. Edward Coulson -- Measuring quality of life / Glenn C. Blomquist -- Air pollution in cities / Matthew E. Kahn -- Urban crime, race, and the criminal justice system in the United States / Stephen Raphael and Melissa Sills -- Ethnic segregation and ghettos / Alex Anas.