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  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Agglomeration and Economic Theory; 1.1 INTRODUCTION; 1.2 CITIES: PAST AND FUTURE; 1.3 WHY DO WE OBSERVE AGGLOMERATIONS?; 1.4 ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPACE AND ECONOMICS; 1.5 PLAN OF THE BOOK; NOTES; PART I FUNDAMENTALS OF GEOGRAPHICAL ECONOMICS; 2 The Breakdown of the Price Mechanism in a Spatial Economy; 3 The Thnen Model and Land Rent Formation; 4 Increasing Returns and Transport Costs: The Fundamental Trade-Off of a Spatial Economy; 5 Cities and the Public Sector; PART II THE STRUCTURE OF METROPOLITAN AREAS.
  • 6 The Spatial Structure of Cities under Communications Externalities7 The Formation of Urban Centers under Imperfect Competition; PART III FACTOR MOBILITY AND INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; 8 Industrial Agglomeration under Marshallian Externalities; 9 Industrial Agglomeration under Monopolistic Competition; PART IV URBAN SYSTEMS AND REGIONAL GROWTH; 10 Back to Thnen: The Formation of Cities in a Spatial Economy; 11 On the Relatio.