Growth of Cities

Edited by Zoltán J. Ács, Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science and University Professor, School of Policy, Government and International Affairs, George Mason University, US

'Contemporary cities are of at least two kinds: those that are vibrant and growing and those that are lagging. While this is nothing new the reasons are, at least in part, different than in past generations. This book is a collection of 'modern classics' about the forces of growth in the late 20th and early 21st century in general and more specifically in agglomerated concentrations including cities. Human capital, agglomeration, knowledge spread or spillovers, industrial clusters, concentration of creative people, and global competition driven by a huge expansion of low cost labor and explosive innovation all play a role. The book provides most of the best material that has been published on these topics and their role in city growth and decline. It is a collection all students of the city and growth should have in their personal library.'

• Contents:AcknowledgementsIntroduction Zoltan J. AcsPART IANALYTICAL OVERVIEW 1. Edward L. Glaeser (2000), ‘The New Economics of Urban and Regional Growth’2. Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot (1998), ‘Spatial Perspectives on New Theories of Economic Growth’PART IINEW ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY 3. Paul Krugman (1991), ‘Increasing Returns and Economic Geography’4. Paul Krugman (1993), ‘First Nature, Second Nature, and Metropolitan Location’5. Paul Krugman (1996), ‘Urban Concentration: The Role of Increasing Returns and Transport Costs’PART IIINEW GROWTH THEORY 6. Paul M. Romer (1986), ‘Increasing Returns and Long-Run Growth’7. Paul M. Romer (1990), ‘Endogenous Technological Change’8. Robert E. Lucas, Jr. (1988), ‘On the Mechanics of Economic Development’PART IVKNOWLEDGE SPILLOVER IN CITIES 9. Adam B. Jaffe, Manuel Trajtenberg and Rebecca Henderson (1993), ‘Geographic Localization of Knowledge Spillovers as Evidenced by Patent Citations’10. David B. Audretsch and Maryann P. Feldman (1996), ‘R&D Spillovers and the Geography of Innovation and Production’11. Luc Anselin, Attila Varga and Zoltan Acs (1997), ‘Local Geographic Spillovers between University Research and High Technology Innovations’PART VHUMAN CAPITAL AND THE GROWTH OF CITIES 12. Curtis J. Simon and Clark Nardinelli (1996), ‘The Talk of the Town: Human Capital, Information, and the Growth of English Cities, 1861 to 1961’13. Edward L. Glaeser, José A. Scheinkman and Andrei Shleifer (1995), ‘Economic Growth in a Cross-Section of Cities’14. James E. Rauch (1993), ‘Productivity Gains from Geographic Concentration of Human Capital: Evidence from the Cities’15. Antonio Ciccone and Robert E. Hall (1996), ‘Productivity and the Density of Economic Activity’PART VIDIVERSITY VS SPECIALIZATION IN CITIES 16. Edward L. Glaeser, Hedi D. Kallal, José A. Scheinkman and Andrei Shleifer (1992), ‘Growth in Cities’17. Vernon Henderson, Ari Kuncoro and Matt Turner (1995), ‘Industrial Development in Cities’ 18. Maryann P. Feldman and David B. Audretsch (1999), ‘Innovation in Cities: Science-Based Diversity, Specialization and Localized Competition’PART VIIENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THE GROWTH OF CITIES 19. Claudio Michelacci (2003), ‘Low Returns in R&D due to the Lack of Entrepreneurial Skills’20. Zoltan J. Acs and Catherine Armington (2004), ‘The Impact of Geographic Differences in Human Capital on Service Firm Formation Rates’21. Sam Youl Lee, Richard Florida and Zoltan J. Acs (2004), ‘Creativity and Entrepreneurship: A Regional Analysis of New Firm Formation’PART VIII CLUSTERS AND THE GROWTH OF CITIES 22. Timothy Bresnahan, Alfonso Gambardella and AnnaLee Saxenian (2001), ‘“Old Economy” Inputs for “New Economy” Outcomes: Cluster Formation in the New Silicon Valleys’23. Philip Cooke (2002), ‘Biotechnology Clusters as Regional, Sectoral Innovation Systems’24. Claus Steinle and Holger Schiele (2002), ‘When do Industries Cluster? A Proposal on How to Assess an Industry’s Propensity to Concentrate at a Single Region or Nation’PART IXCOMPETITION AND PUBLIC POLICY 25. Kenneth J. Arrow (1962), ‘Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources For Invention’26. Michael E. Porter (1998), ‘Clusters and the New Economics of Competition’27. William J. Baumol (2004), ‘Entrepreneurial Enterprises, Large Established Firms and Other Components of the Free-Market Growth Machine’Name Index