regional economic

1. 1
Nature and Scope of Regional
and Urban Economics
Chapter 1

2. 2
Earth at Night

3. 3
Skyline of Houston

4. 4
Roots of Spatial Economics
• Richard Cantillon (1755)
• Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1826)
• Carl Launhardt (1885)
• Alfred Weber (1929)
• Walter Christaller (1933)
• August Lösch (1944)
• Harold Hotelling (1929)

5. 5
Regions
• Functional (regional homogeneity)
• Administrative (political subdivisions)

6. 6
Europe’s Blue Banana and the
corresponding Boomerang

7. 7
Linguistic Map of Switzerland

8. 8
Bible Belt

9. 9
Tornado Alley

10. 10
Space and traditional economics
• Spatial market structures
• Regional growth policies and theories
• Local public finance

11. 11
Sources
1. Earth at Night: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001127.html
2. Houston Skyline:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Houston_Skyline11.jpg
3. Courtesy of Office for Official Publications of the European
Communities,
and Dr. Borsi Balazs.
http://www.zsi.at/attach/RECORD_experimental_map.pdf
4. Courtesy of Lia Rumantscha, rumantsch online,
http://www.rumantsch.ch/
5. Map courtesy of Maponics,LLC (http://www.maponics.com);
6. (Courtesy of State Data Center, University of Arkansas-Little
Rock.)