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Fifty Years of Regional Science

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Editors:
  1. Raymond J. G. M. Florax

    1. Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
      Department of Spatial Economics, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  2. David A. Plane

    1. Department of Geography and Regional Development, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

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  • Historical perspective and new insights on the future directions of the field
  • Written by leading scholars

Part of the book series: Advances in Spatial Science (ADVSPATIAL)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  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
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About this book

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".

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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)

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Fifty Years of Regional Science

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

  • Series Title: Advances in Spatial Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07223-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-22361-0Published: 18 November 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06111-0Published: 05 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-07223-3Published: 17 April 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1430-9602

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-9375

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 400

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Regional/Spatial Science, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Agricultural Economics, Sociology, general

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