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One can choose almost any topic of economics (say, according to the classification of the Journal of Economic Literature) and add the adjective ‘urban’ to define a legitimate subject of urban economics in the broad sense. But the reader should know in advance that the scope of this book is much more modest. We only focus on studies pertaining to issues of location and land use which are peculiar to cities, and we discuss both positive and normative aspects of these issues. Many other urban issues, some of which are extremely important like urban finance, urban income distribution, urban poverty, urban discrimination, and urban growth, are not discussed in this book.
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Papageorgiou, Y.Y., Pines, D. (1999). Introduction. In: An Essay on Urban Economic Theory. Advances in Urban and Regional Economics, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4947-5_1
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