Fifty Years of Regional Science

1. Front Matter

   Pages N1-VIII

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2. Introducing the brightest of dawns: Regional science in “Papers”

   • Raymond J. G. M. Florax, David A. Plane

   Pages 5-29

3. A short history of the field of regional science

   • David Boyce

   Pages 31-57

4. Path-breaking books in regional science

   • Brigitte S. Waldorf

   Pages 59-89

5. Intellectual leaders of regional science: A half-century citation study

   • Andrew M. Isserman

   Pages 91-126

6. Regional science: Directions for the future

   • Antoine Bailly, Lay James Gibson

   Pages 127-138

7. The new economic geography: Past, present and the future

   • Masahisa Fujita, Paul Krugman

   Pages 139-164

8. Agglomeration and networks in spatial economies

   • Börje Johansson, John M. Quigley

   Pages 165-176

9. Location, agglomeration and infrastructure

   • Philip McCann, Daniel Shefer

   Pages 177-196

10. Cities, regions and the decline of transport costs

    • Edward L. Glaeser, Janet E. Kohlhase

    Pages 197-228

11. Transport in regional science: The “death of distance” is premature

    • Piet Rietveld, Roger Vickerman

    Pages 229-248

12. Growth, development, and innovation: A look backward and forward

    • Paul C. Cheshire, Edward J. Malecki

    Pages 249-267

13. Trade and spatial economic interdependence

    • Karen R. Polenske, Geoffrey J. D. Hewings

    Pages 269-289

14. The environment in regional science: An eclectic review

    • Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Peter Nijkamp

    Pages 291-316

15. Crossing boundaries and borders: Regional science advances in migration modelling

    • Brian Cushing, Jacques Poot

    Pages 317-338

16. Spatial interaction modelling

    • John R. Roy, Jean-Claude Thill

    Pages 339-361

17. GIS and spatial data analysis: Converging perspectives

    • Michael F. Goodchild, Robert P. Haining

    Pages 363-385

18. The future (near and far) of regional science

    • Walter Isard

    Pages 387-400

This book contains the complete text of the special Golden Anniversary issue of the flagship journal of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), Papers in Regional Science (Volume 83, Number 1), as well as the full text of Walter Isard's Presidential Address "The future (near and far) of regional science". Professor Isard originally delivered the speech in a special plenary session of the fiftieth North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International. The session began with a ceremonial kickoff to the year-long celebration of the multidisciplinary field's first 50 years. At the ceremony, held on the morning of Friday, November 21,2004 at the DoubleTree Hotel in Philadelphia, we presented Walter Isard, the founder of our multidisciplinary field, as well as Antoine Bailly, the President of the Regional Science Association International, and David Boyce, the Association's Archivist, with commemorative first copies of the anniversary issue. This book, entitled Fifty Years of Regional Science, consists of a compendium of "thought" papers authored by a representative sampling of some of the field's leading scholars. For the special journal issue we originally titled the collection: "The Brightest of Dawns".

• Flora
• Innovation
• Location Analysis
• Nation
• Regions
• agglomeration
• environment
• interdependence
• migration
• modeling
• regional economics
• regional science
• spatial economics
• transport
• landscape/regional and urban planning

From the reviews:

"This book was written on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI). … It documents the progress that has been made to date in interdisciplinary regional science research and represents a self-critical assessment of research priorities for the future. It contains a wealth of factual information about the development of the Regional Science Association International … ." (Online Information Bulletin, Issue 12, 2004)

• Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

  Raymond J. G. M. Florax

• Department of Spatial Economics, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Raymond J. G. M. Florax

• Department of Geography and Regional Development, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

  David A. Plane

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