First published in 1974. The demand for input-output models at the urban and regional levels is growing rapidly, as planners and government officers are becoming increasingly aware of the value and potential of the approach in subnational studies. Input-output models provide a basis for the detailed study of the economic system, emphasising clearly the interrelationships present in an economy. The present study attempts to integrate previous work aimed at the production of non-survey input-output tables at the regional level.
First Published in 2006. This text tries to answer some of the questions posed in the introduction to the British edition of 'After the Planners'- what is the relationship between government and industry and what is the role of planning within his relationship.
The second edition of this accessible text provides an integrated framework of the study of urban and regional economics. It offers a concise and up-to-date introduction to the main foundational models, principles, and theories of the subject, and uses a range of international examples to illustrate ideas.
This book contains the contributions presented at the international workshop "The Dynamics of Complex Urban Systems: an interdisciplinary approach" held in Ascona, Switzerland in November 2004. Experts from several disciplines outline a conceptual framework for modeling and forecasting the dynamics of both growth-limited cities and megacities. Coverage reflects the various interdependencies between structural and social development.
Today, the Bay Area is home to the most successful knowledge economy in America, while Los Angeles has fallen progressively further behind its neighbor to the north and a number of other American metropolises. Yet, in 1970, experts would have predicted that L.A. would outpace San Francisco in population, income, economic power, and influence. The usual factors used to explain urban growth—luck, immigration, local economic policies, and the pool of skilled labor—do not account for the contrast between the two cities and their fates. So what does? The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies challenges many of the conventional notions about economic development and sheds new light on its workings. The authors argue that it is essential to understand the interactions of three major components—economic specialization, human capital formation, and institutional factors—to determine how well a regional economy will cope with new opportunities and challenges. Drawing on economics, sociology, political science, and geography, they argue that the economic development of metropolitan regions hinges on previously underexplored capacities for organizational change in firms, networks of people, and networks of leaders. By studying San Francisco and Los Angeles in unprecedented levels of depth, this book extracts lessons for the field of economic development studies and urban regions around the world.
6. 2 Basic Model Characteristics 185 6. 3 A Closed Model Approach to Interregional Estimation 189 7 Towards an Integrated System of Models for National and Regional Development 205 7. 1 Introduction 205 7. 2 In Search of a Framework for Integration 207 7. 3 National Development Scenarios 222 7. 4 The National-Regional Interlace 231 7. 5 Regional Development Scenarios 236 7. 6 Concluding Remarks 244 Appendixes 253 A Basic Microstate Descriptions 253 B Incomplete Prior Information: A Simple Example 257 C Computing Capital Coefficients and Turnpike Solutions: The DYNIO Package 259 D Minimizing Information Losses in Simple Aggregation: Two Test Problems 274 E Computing Interregional and Intersectoral Flows: 276 References 287 Index 305 vi LIST OF FIGURES 1. 1 A Three-Dimensional Guide to Later Chapters 12 2. 1 Historical Development of the Entropy Concept 32 2. 2 Selected Applications of Information Theory to Input-Output Analysis and Interaction Modelling 48 3. 1 The Bose-Einstein Analogy 58 5. 1 The Dog-Leg Input-Output Table 159 7. 1 A General Multilevel Social System 219 7. 2 The Hierarchical System of Models 219 7. 3 Choice of Production Techniques 230 7. 4 The National-Regional Interface 235 7. 5 A Sequential Compromise Procedure 243 7. 6 The Integrated Modelling System 246 vii LIST OF TABLES 3. 1 Production-Constrained Microstate Descriptions 59 3. 2 Production-Constrained Entropy Formulae 62 3. 3 Production-Constrained Solutions 65 3. 4 Doubly-Constrained Solutions 73 4. 1 The Static Input-Output Table 85 4.
Urban processes like segregation, migration, or economic transition take place at different temporal and spatial scales. Adequate modeling and simulation techniques are in great demand which consider bottom-up and top-down relationships equally. This volume presents approaches within the field of complexity theory, ranging from spatial-econometric models to geostatistical techniques and multi-agent system simulations, to analyze and visualize patterns of social organization, individual behavior, and spatial fabrics.
The use of formal modelling and computational simulation in studies of the Roman economy has become more common over the last decade. But detailed critical evaluations of this innovative approach are still missing and much needed. What kinds of insights about the Roman economy can it lead to that could not have been obtained through more established approaches, and how do simulation methods constructively enhance research processes in Roman Studies? This edited volume addresses this need through critical discussion and convincing examples. It presents the Roman economy as a highly complex system, traditionally studied through critical examinations of material and textual sources, and understood through a wealth of diverging theories. A key contribution of simulation lies in its ability to formally represent diverse theories of Roman economic phenomena, and test them against empirical evidence. Critical simulation studies rely on collaboration across Roman data, theory, and method specialisms, and can constructively enhance multivocality of theoretical debates of the Roman economy. This potential is illustrated, avoiding computational and mathematical language, through simulation studies of a wealth of Roman economic phenomena: from maritime trade and terrestrial transport infrastructures, through the economic impacts of the Antonine Plague and demography, to local cult economies and grain trade. Through these examples and discussions, this volume aims to provide the common ground, guidance, and inspiration needed to make simulation methods part of the tools of the trade in Roman Studies, and to allow them to make constructive contributions to our understanding of the Roman economy.
The book explores the key factors affecting the successful implementation of public participation spatial systems in participatory planning as part of the urban governance system. It brings insight from nation-wide research in the Czech Republic and the implications to other countries in the region and beyond. The main aim of the proposed book is to analyse the state-of-the-art of using geoparticipatory tools for citizens’ participation in community decision-making process and to suggest the effective implementation of the geoparticipatory tools available in urban governance. This book explores the situation in the Czech Republic as a representative of for Eastern Bloc country, three decades after the political transition, on its way to public participation in local and urban governance. The active involvement of the citizens into the local and urban decision making process via geoparticipatory spatial tools is becoming a popular research field among human geographers, behavioural geographers, GIS scientists, environmental psychologists, policy scientists and many others scientific areas.
