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Preface -- 1. Why Cities Exist -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Scale Economies -- 1.3. Agglomeration Economies -- 1.4. Transport Costs and Firm Location -- 1.5. The Interaction of Scale Economies and Transporation Costs in the Formation of Cities -- 1.6. Tetail Agglomeration and the Economics of shopping centers -- 1.7. Summary -- 2. Analyzing Urban Spatial Structure -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Basic Assumptions -- 2.3. Commuting Cost -- 2.4. Consumer Analysis -- 2.5. Analysis of Housing Production -- 2.6. Population Density -- 2.7. Intercity Predictions -- 2.8. Summary' -- 3. Modifications of the Urban Model -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. A City with Two Income Groups -- 3.3. Commuting by Freeway -- 3.4. Adding Employment Outside the CBD -- 3.5. Durable Housing Capital -- 3.6. Cities in Developing Countries -- 3.7. Summary -- 4. Urban Sprawl and Land-Use Controls -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Empirical Evidence on the Spatial Sizes of Cities -- 4.3. Market Failures and Urban Sprawl -- 4.4. Behavioral Impacts of Urban Sprawl -- 4.5. Using Land-Use Controls to Attack Urban Sprawl -- 4.6. Other Types of Land-Use Controls -- 4.7. Summary -- 5. Freeway Congestion -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Congestion Costs -- 5.3. The Demand for Freeway Use -- 5.4. Traffic Allocations: Equilibrium and Social Optimum -- 5.5. Congestion Tolls -- 5.6. Choice of Freeway Capacity -- 5.7. Application to Airport Congestion -- 5.8. Summary -- 6. Housing Demand and Tenure Choice -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Housing Demand: The Traditional and Hedonic Approaches -- 6.3. The User Costs of Housing -- 6.4. Tenure Choice -- 6.5. Down-Payment Requirements, Tenure Choice, and Mortgage Default -- 6.6. Property Abuse and Tenure Choice -- 6.7. Summary -- 7. Housing Policies -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Rent Control -- 7.3. Housing-Subsidy Programs -- 7.4. Homelessness and Policies to Correct It -- 7.5. Summary -- 8. Local Public Goods and Services -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. The Socially Optimal Level of a Public Good -- 8.3. Majority Voting and Voting with One's Feet -- 8.4. Public-Good Congestion and Jurisdiction Sizes -- 8.5. Capitalization and Property-Value Maximization -- 8.6. Tax and Welfare Competition -- 8.7. Summary -- 9. Pollution -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. Pollution from a Single Factory and Governmental Remedies -- 9.3. Bargaining as a Path to the Social Optimum: The Coase Theorem -- 9.4. Cap-and-Trade Systems -- 9.5. Evidence on Air Pollution and Property Values -- 9.6. Summary -- 10. Crime -- 10.1. Introduction -- 10.2. The Economic Theory of Crime -- 10.3. Additional Aspects of the Theory -- 10.4. How to Divide a Police Force Between Rich and Poor Neighborhoods -- 10.5. Summary -- 11. Urban Quality-of-Life Measurement -- 11.1. Introduction -- 11.2. Theory: The Roback Model -- 11.3. Measuring Urban Quality of Life -- 11.4. Additional Issues -- 11.5. Summary -- Exercises -- References -- Index.

A rigorous but nontechnical treatment of major topics in urban economics.

Lectures on Urban Economics offers a rigorous but nontechnical treatment of major topics in urban economics. To make the book accessible to a broad range of readers, the analysis is diagrammatic rather than mathematical. Although nontechnical, the book relies on rigorous economic reasoning. In contrast to the cursory theoretical development often found in other textbooks, Lectures on Urban Economics offers thorough and exhaustive treatments of models relevant to each topic, with the goal of revealing the logic of economic reasoning while also teaching urban economics.

Topics covered include reasons for the existence of cities, urban spatial structure, urban sprawl and land-use controls, freeway congestion, housing demand and tenure choice, housing policies, local public goods and services, pollution, crime, and quality of life. Footnotes throughout the book point to relevant exercises, which appear at the back of the book. These 22 extended exercises (containing 125 individual parts) develop numerical examples based on the models analyzed in the chapters. Lectures on Urban Economics is suitable for undergraduate use, as background reading for graduate students, or as a professional reference for economists and scholars interested in the urban economics perspective.