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The Organization of Cities

Initiative, ordinary life, and the good life

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Authors:
  1. John R Miron

    1. UNIV OF TORONTO SCARBOROUGH, UNIV OF TORONTO SCARBOROUGH, TORONTO, Canada

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  • Analyzes the relationship between the state and economy in the development of cities
  • Reviews, contrasts, and simplifies classic models of urban economics for a fresh perspective
  • Emphasizes the determinants of the slope of the city’s supply curve for a given industry
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-lx
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  2. Background Ideas

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The State, Decentralization and Entitlement, and the Organization of Cities

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      Pages 3-30

    3. State, Economy, and City: A Reconstruction

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      Pages 31-62

    4. Explaining the Rise of Commercial Cities

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      Pages 63-89

  3. The Mills Model

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
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    2. The Mills Model

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      Pages 93-120

  4. Export and Factor Markets

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. A Simple Model of a One-Industry Town

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      Pages 123-138

    3. Land for Worker Accommodation in a One-Industry Ribbon Town

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      Pages 139-163

    4. Land for Industry in a One-Industry Ribbon Town

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      Pages 165-183

    5. A Simple Model of an Urban Economy with Multiple Industries

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      Pages 185-198

    6. Land for Worker Accommodation in a Multi-industry Ribbon Town

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      Pages 199-222

    7. Land for Industry in a Multi-industry Ribbon Town

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      Pages 223-249

    8. Substitution by Consumers in the Urban Economy

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      Pages 251-272

  5. Real Estate and Fixed-capital Investment Markets

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 273-273
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    2. Real Estate and the Urban Economy

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      Pages 275-292

    3. Risk, Investment, and the Urban Economy

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      Pages 293-310

  6. Transportation, Land Use Planning, and the Urban Economy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 311-311
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    2. Districting in the Urban Economy

      • John R. Miron
      Pages 313-337
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About this book

This book focuses on the relationship between the state and economy in the development of cities. It reviews and reinterprets fundamental theoretical models that explain how the operation of markets in equilibrium shapes the scale and organization of the commercial city in a mixed market economy within a liberal state. These models link markets for the factors of production, markets for investment and fixed capital formation, markets for transportation, and markets for exports in equilibrium both within the urban economy and the rest of the world. In each case, the model explains the urban economy by revealing how assumptions about causes and structures lead to predictions about scale and organization outcomes. By simplifying and contrasting these models, this book proposes another interpretation: that  governance and the urban economy are outcomes negotiated by  political actors motivated by competing notions of commonwealth and the individual desire for wealth and power. The book grounds its analysis in economic history, explaining the rise of commercial cities and the emergence of the urban economy. It then turns to factors of production, export, and factor markets, introducing and parsing the Mills model, breaking it down into its component parts and creating a series of simpler models that can better explain the significance of each economic assumption. Simplified models are also presented for real estate and fixed capital investment markets, transportation, and land use planning. The book concludes with a discussion of linear programming and the Herbert- Stevens and the Ripper-Varaiya models. A fresh presentation of the theories behind urban economics, this book emphasizes the links between state and economy and challenges the reader to see its theories in a new light. As such, this book will be of interest to scholars, students, and practitioners of economics, public policy, public administration, urban policy, and city and urban planning.  >

Authors and Affiliations

  • UNIV OF TORONTO SCARBOROUGH, UNIV OF TORONTO SCARBOROUGH, TORONTO, Canada

    John R Miron

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Organization of Cities

  • Book Subtitle: Initiative, ordinary life, and the good life

  • Authors: John R Miron

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50100-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50099-7Published: 02 February 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84318-6Published: 13 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50100-0Published: 20 January 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: LX, 537

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Urban Economics, Public Administration, Public Policy, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning

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