Urban Economics

The BORDERLINE by Gabe Martin

Core Links Aplia Interactive problem sets, tutorials, and experiments Urban Economics by O'Sullivan published by McGraw-Hill Audio Links States' Budgets Improve Here and Now, April 28, 2004, scroll down...A new report indicates some states' budgets are getting healthier. Can You Fight City Hall If You Are City Hall? This American Life, June 30, 2000: Episode 163 The Marketplace Report: Privatizing Highways Day to Day, December 10, 2004 London's Bursting BBC Radio 4 Science Costing the Earth, Thursday 19 December 2002 Building a Better City BBC Radio 4 Science Costing the Earth, Thursday 31 July 2003 Not a Drop to Drink BBC Radio 4 Science Costing the Earth, Thursday 3 October 2002 New Towns BBC Radio 4 Science Costing the Earth, Thursday 12 September 2002 City Heat The Connection, 8/15/2002 Trash Money The Connection, 10/2/2003 Asphalt nation The Connection, 10/04/2004: A Field Guide to Sprawl Honoring Place The Connection, 7/24/2003 Haunting the Quabbin: Inside Out Inside Out Documentaries, copyright 2005 London Calling The Connection, 3/1/2002 Beyond Hope? The Connection, 4/21/2003 "No place in the contemporary United States, with the possible exceptions of prisons and certain hospitals, stigmatizes people in as many debilitating ways as a distressed inner-city public housing project." -- Lawrence Vale L.A. Freeway Game All Things Considered, September 24, 2002, from National Public Radio NPR's Andy Bowers reports on a new board game called Dr. Roadmap's LA Freeway Game. The idea is to learn alternative routes through the LA freeway maze, while beating your opponents to City Hall. Dr. Roadmap -- a.k.a. David Rizzo, a podiatrist by day -- says everyone in L.A. talks about the traffic but no one does anything about it. Now he hopes to do for clogged traffic what Monopoly did for real estate. Clip: Are drivers rational? WUMB's Commonwealth Journal, Show 2005-01 The Great Post-Katrina Gulf Coast Rebuild on Point, Friday, December 23, 2005 Future of Rail Service in America on Point, Friday, April 22, 2005 What Makes a City Great? Open Source, February 14th, 2006 Supplemental Links Location-Theoretical Traditions and Significant Concepts Geography 450 - Gunter Krumme Summary No. 3, October 2001 Tiebout Model EC3230.03MW, Urban Economics The Web Book of Regional Science West Virginia University The Web Book of Regional Science An Introduction to State and Local Public Finance Garrett and Leatherman The Web Book of Regional Science Migration and Local Labor Markets Stephan J. Goetz Illustration of the Effects of the Tiebout Hypothesis Stephan J. Goetz Meta Analysis of Influences upon Property Values Kenneth Acks Dipartimento di Economia Politica abstracts Econ 741: Course Outline Fall 2001 James Andreoni A Historical Test of the Tiebout Hypothesis: Local Heterogeneity from 1850 to 1990 Tiebout hypothesis, which states that individuals will costlessly sort themselves across local communities according to their public good preferences, is the workhorse of the local public finance literature. This paper develops a test of the Tiebout hypothesis using historical variation in mobility costs. The Tiebout Hypothesis and Majority Rule: An Empirical Analysis The paper provides a comprehensive empirical analysis of majority rule and Tiebout sorting within a system of local jurisdictions. The idea behind the estimation procedure is to investigate whether observed levels of public expenditures satisfy necessary conditions implied by majority rule in a general equilibrium model of residential choice. Urban Lecture Notes Department of Political Science, University of St. Thomas Econ 741: Course Outline Fall 2001 James Andreoni The University of Warwick Economics Department Home Page General Public Management Bibliography Tiebout Open and Closed Economic Principals, April 11, 2004 Comparing London and Berlin on public transportation London - Congestion Charging Index BBC London's definitive guide to the Congestion Charge Local Government Guide to the Internet Chapter 2: ABC's of Online Resources Leaky Stadiums from Mike Moffat on About UCSB Economics: Public Finance The State and Local Government on the Net Directory provides convenient one-stop access to the websites of thousands of state agencies and city and county governments. National Association of State Information Resource Executives. bad link? National Conference of State Legislatures "On-Line Connection to the Latest Fiscal Information in the States Data Links Compare Cities Compare key data to see how relocating would affect your standard of living. American FactFinder Your source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data.

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