Urban economics : readings and analysis / edited by Ronald E. Grieson.

Chapter 1, The allocation of resources in central cities : Introduction -- The city as a distorted price system / Wilbur Thompson.

Chapter 2, Growth, income, and economic stability : Introduction -- A method of determining incomes and their variation in small regions / Charles M. Tiebout -- Contrasts in agglomeration: New York and Pittsburgh / Benjamin Chinitz.

Chapter 3, Location and land use : Introduction -- Transportation and patterns of urban development: an aggregative model of resource allocation in a metropolitan area / William Alonso -- Economic change and the city: a qualitative evaluation and some hypotheses / John R. Meyer, John F. Kain, and Martin Wohl.

Chapter 4, Transportation : Introduction -- Transport: key to the future of cities / Wilfred Owen -- Urban transportation / John R. Meyer -- Pricing in urban and suburban transport / William S. Vickrey -- Congestion theory and transportation investment / William S. Vickrey.

Chapter 5, Zoning, housing markets, and urban renewal : Introduction -- Economic elements in municipal zoning decisions / Otto A. Davis -- The economics of urban renewal / Otto A. Davis and Andrew B. Whinston -- Urban residential land and housing markets / Richard F. Muth -- Toward a new federal housing policy / Irving Welfeld -- The mirage of new towns / William Alonso.

Chapter 6, Pollution : Introduction -- The nature of external diseconomies / Ezra J. Mishan -- Economic incentives in air-pollution control / Edwin S. Mills -- Water quality management by regional authorities in the Ruhr area with special emphasis on the role of cost assessment / Allen V. Kneese.

Chapter 7, Poverty : Introduction -- Who are the urban poor? / Anthony Downs -- Approaches to the reduction of poverty / Robert J. Lampman -- A primer on negative taxation / Duncan K. Foley -- Investment in the education of the poor: a pessimistic report / Eugene Smolensky -- Transportation and poverty / John R. Meyer and John F. Kain.

Chapter 8, Discrimination : Introduction -- Discrimination / Lester C. Thurow -- A market separation theory of rent differentials in metropolitan areas / Robert A. Haugen and A. James Heins.

Chapter 9, Metropolitanism : Introduction -- Municipal fiscal structure in a metropolitan region / Julius Margolis -- Some fiscal implications of metropolitanism / Harvey E. Brazer.

Chapter 10, Urban public finance : Introduction -- Metorpolitan financial problems / Lyle C. Fitch -- Financing urban government / Dick Netzer.

Chapter 11, Methodological appendix: marginal analysis, benefit-cost, and the social rate of discount.

"The recent focus upon problems of our cities has stimulated a large and diverse body of literature to be produced in urban economics. The most important contribution to this literature are presented in this book, with an analytically unifying discussion of the main issues. This combination of readings and text makes the book sufficiently self-contained to be used as a single source for a range of courses in the academic curriculum." -- From the preface.