What is New Economic Geography

Differs from traditional work in economic geography mainly in adopting a modeling strategy that exploits the same technical tricks that have played such a large role in the new growth theories; these modeling tricks, while they preclude any claims of generality, do allow the construction of models that are fully general-equilibrium and clearly derive aggregate behavior from individual maximization. Most importantly it serves the important purpose of placing geographical analysis squarely in the economic mainstream.

Knowledge-Based Urban Development

Tan Yigitcanlar (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)