Urban Economy

Colin Jones is an urban economist who has been a professor at Heriot-Watt University since 1998. He formerly worked at the Universities of Manchester, Glasgow and the West of Scotland. His research interests span commercial, industrial and housing market economics, investment and policy together with the macroeconomy and local economic development. Colin has edited or authored eight books, published more than seventy papers in academic journals and has taught urban economics and real estate investment at undergraduate and postgraduate levels for more than 40 years.

1. Introduction PART 1: Spatial Pattern of Economic Activity 2. Location of Economic Activity 3. Spatial Agglomeration 4. Spatial Structure of Towns and Cities 5. Spatial Structure of the Housing Market 6. Planning and Land Market 7. Urban Housing Markets 8. Urban Commercial Real Estate Markets PART 2: Spatial Change and Public Policy 9. Growth, Decline and Revival of Cities 10. Explaining Intra-Urban Economic Change 11. Changing Urban Systems 12. Real Estate Impacts of Urban and Technological Change 13. Real Estate Investment, Planning and Urban Economic Change 14. Urban Public Finance 15. Transport Policies 16. Urban Sustainability 17. Neighbourhood and Housing Market Dynamics PART 3: Regeneration and Urban Growth Policies 18. Urban Regeneration Policies 19. Urban Competitiveness and the Real Estate Market 20. Physical and Housing Led Urban Regeneration 21. Enterprise Zones: Real Estate Led Regeneration 22. Urban Development Corporations: A Costless Solution? 23. Development of Sustainable Markets