Fifty Years of Regional Science

403 Pages·2004·9.45 MB·English

by  Raymond J. G. M. Florax, David A. Plane (auth.), Professor Dr. Raymond J. G. M. Florax, Professor Dr. David A. Plane (eds.)

A weU-written and exciting historical account of the
way in which regional science and the formation of
the society associated with the field . Regional Science
Association International. developed.
The text has been written by the founde r of the Re-
gional Science Association and current President of
the orth American Regional Science Council.
It is of interest to regional scientists, economists.
Walter lsard
sociologists. urban- and regional planners. geographers.
History of Regional Science and transportation researchers.
and the Regional Science Content: Preface.- I. The Setting and Initial Events.-
2. The Emergence and Struggling Years of Regional
Association International
Science.- 3. The Evolution of the Designations;
The Beginn ings and Early History Regional Science. Regional Science Association and
the Field of Regional Science.- 4. The Formation of
2003, X. 267 p, Hardcover E 49.95; £ 3850; sfr 8850 the Regional Science Association. - 5. The Rooting and
ISBN 3-540-00934-5 Emergence of Regional Science as a Major Field of
Study.- 6. The Invasion of and Extensive Expansion in
Europe Concomitant with the Formation of Sections. -
7. The Spread of Regional Science into Japan. India.
and Latin America.- 8. My Current Thinking on the
Scope and ature of Regional Science and Opportuni-
ties for Its Advance in Basic Research and Policy
Analyses.- Appendices.- References.
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Recent Developments in Spatial Analysis The Emergence of the Knowledge Economy
X, 434 pages. 1997. ISBN 3-540-63180-1 VII, 388 pages. 2002. ISBN 3-540-43722-3
P. McCann R. I. Stimson, R. R. Stough and B. H. Roberts
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Raymond J.G.M. Florax· David A. Plane
Editors
FiftyVears
of Regional Science
With 29 Figures
and 32 Tables
~ Springer
Professor Dr. Raymond J. G. M. Florax
Department of Agricultural Economics
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Department of Spatial Economics
Free University
De Boelelaan 1105
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
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Table of contents
Foreword of the series editors ................................ VII
Preface to the book edition ................................. .
Preface ..................................................... 3
Peter Batey
Introducing the brightest of dawns: Regional science in "Papers" 5
Raymond J. G. M. Florax, David A. Plane
A short history of the field of regional science .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
David Boyce
Patb-breaking books in regional science ...................... 59
Brigitte S. Waldorf, Michael Batty, Manas Chatterji,
Kieran Donaghy, Bernard Fingleton, Arthur Getis,
Michael J. Greenwood, Daniel P. McMillen, Gordon F. Mulligan,
Jan Oosterhaven, Peter V. Schaeffer, Daniel Shefer
Intellectual leaders of regional science: A half-century citation 91
study ...................................................... .
Andrew M. Isserman
Regional science: Directions for the future 127
Antoine Bailly, Lay James Gibson
The new economic geography: Past, present and the future 139
Masahisa Fujita, Paul Krugman
Agglomeration and networks in spatial economics ............ 165
Borje Johansson, John M. Quigley
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Location, agglomeration and infrastructure .................. 177
Philip McCann, Daniel Shefer
Cities, regions and the decline of transport costs .............. 197
Edward L. Glaeser; Janet E. Kohlhase
Transport in regional science: The "death of distance"
is premature ................................................ 229
Piet Rietveld, Roger Vickerman
Growth, development and innovation: A look backward
and forward ................................................ 249
Paul C. Cheshire, Edward J. Malecki
Trade and spatial economic interdependence ................. 269
Karen R. Polenske, Geoffrey J. D. Hewings
The environment in regional science: An eclectic review....... 291
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Peter Nijkamp
Crossing boundaries and borders: Regional science advances in 317
migration modelling ........................................ .
Brian Cushing, Jacques Poot
Spatial interaction modelling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
John R. Roy, Jean-Claude Thill
GIS and spatial data analysis: Converging perspectives. . . . . . . . 363
Michael F Goodchild, Robert P. Haining
The future (near and far) of regional science 387
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Foreword of the series editors
Regional science has celebrated its 50th anniversary as a scientific area and a scien-
tific network. We take this opportunity to have a look back at the formation of the
research community in the field during the five past decades, but also at ten years
of publication activities in the book series Advances in Spatial Science.
During the past fifty years the research area of regional science has proved to be
a lasting part of the science production system involving a global network of centres
of research activity with the nexus on the region as an object of inquiry. This network
works as an arena for research of global scientific quality in a field where standards
from different scientific disciplines will merge. The scientific output within the
regional science field is ample and of high quality. The number of scientists who are
active in the field continues to grow and a complex web of seminar and conference
activities belongs to the field. There is a strong link between the science production
in the field and teaching in university programmes worldwide, and the link is also
strong between the scientific output and public policy. The current volume gives an
excellent overview of these developments, being a retrospective, assessment and
prospect at the same time.
In the main, the ultimate quality assurance system is constituted by the refer-
eeing process for the scientific papers, and for the book publications, coming from
the field. As one element of this system, there is a coalition between the science
producers in universities and the science distribution actors in the publishing sector.
Science publishing companies have emerged to playing a more and more important
role as actors in the globalisation of science production. Publishers like Springer
have an important role in this context for science internally, but also, in a field as
important and pertinent for policy-making as regional science, for the scientific
knowledge base for societal decision-making.
The Springer book series on Advances in Spatial Science is one of the elements
of this science production system. It has been there for ten years now and has es-
tablished itself as playing an important role. The constitutional meeting of the book
series took place at the European Congress of the Regional Science Association
International in Groningen at the end of August 1994. At the end of 2004 as many
as 43 volumes will have appeared in the series. A steady flow of some four or five
books per year during the decade means that the series is the largest one in the field.
One of the novel ideas of the book series was that a group of editors would be
selected within the global network of senior scholars with an overview of the pro-
duction in the regional science field. The idea was also that the series editors would
have a long-term commitment to the series. This has turned out to work. Among the
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founding group of researchers only one scholar, David Batten, has stepped down af-
ter having contributed actively to the editorial work for a considerable time period.
Recently, Luc Anselin has accepted to join the group of editors.
The publication policy of the book series is to publish monographs of theoretical
and applied research in regional science, state-of-the-art volumes in areas of basic
research, reports on innovative theories and methods in regional science, and tightly
edited reports from specially organised research seminars.
Ten of the books in the series have been monographs written by one or several
authors, while the others have been edited volumes. Some ten to twelve books in the
production can be seen as state-of-the-art volumes, some thirteen to fifteen volumes
are innovative contributions to theory and method, and some sixteen to eighteen
volumes can be seen as tightly edited collections of papers presented at specialised
research seminars. There is thus balance between the areas stated in the publication
policy.
Seven of the books in the series have been authored or edited by one person
while seventeen have been authored or edited by more than two persons. In many
of these cases the authors or editors come from different university environments,
and from different parts of the world. The prevalence of joint authorship and joint
editing demonstrates the global network character of the research work in the field.
The book series Advances in Spatial Science has the aim to contribute to the
advance of regional science. The decision to publish the current volume in the
series is therefore self-evident. The achievements of the field should be presented
in the book series as a further token of the establishment of the field, and as a
signal of continued priority of the field as an important publication activity also
for Springer. In fact, the current book includes a manifestation of the long-term
advances in the scientific field of regional science. Based on a special issue of
the Papers in Regional Science, the journal of the Regional Science Association
International also published by Springer, the book has resulted from a scientific
assessment project involving regional scientists worldwide. Therefore, the series
editors have been very happy to accept the enlarged special issue of the journal as
an important contribution to the series Advances in Spatial Science.
An important reason for the success of the book series Advances in Spatial
Science has been that Springer has provided continuous strategic support for the
idea of the series combined with professionally skillful editorial work. The key actor
behind the success is Marianne Bopp who has made remarkable achievements to
produce and promote the series. We would like to take the opportunity to express
our deepest personal appreciation for having had the opportunity to work with her.
Luc Anselin, Urbana, USA
Manfred Fischer, Vienna, Austria
Geoffrey Hewings, Urbana, USA
Peter Nijkamp, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Folke Snickars, Stockholm, Sweden