1. 1 Nature and Scope of Regional and Urban Economics Chapter 1

2. 2 Earth at Night

3. 3 Skyline of Houston

4. 4 Roots of Spatial Economics Richard Cantillon (1755) Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1826) Carl Launhardt (1885) Alfred Weber (1929) Walter Christaller (1933) August Lösch (1944) Harold Hotelling (1929)

5. 5 Regions Functional (regional homogeneity) Administrative (political subdivisions)

6. 6 Europe’s Blue Banana and the corresponding Boomerang

7. 7 Linguistic Map of Switzerland

8. 8 Bible Belt

9. 9 Tornado Alley

10. 10 Space and traditional economics Spatial market structures Regional growth policies and theories Local public finance

11. 11 Sources 1.Earth at Night: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001127.htmlhttp://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001127.html 2.Houston Skyline: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Houston_Skyline11.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Houston_Skyline11.jpg 3.Courtesy of Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, and Dr. Borsi Balazs. http://www.zsi.at/attach/RECORD_experimental_map.pdf http://www.zsi.at/attach/RECORD_experimental_map.pdf 4.Courtesy of Lia Rumantscha, rumantsch online, http://www.rumantsch.ch/ http://www.rumantsch.ch/ 5.Map courtesy of Maponics,LLC (http://www.maponics.com);http://www.maponics.com 6.(Courtesy of State Data Center, University of Arkansas-Little Rock.)