This book contains the complete text of the special Golden Anniversary issue of the flagship journal of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), Papers in Regional Science (Volume 83, Number 1), as well as the full text of Walter Isard's Presidential Address "The future (near and far) of regional science". Professor Isard originally delivered the speech in a special plenary session of the fiftieth North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International. The session began with a ceremonial kickoff to the year-long celebration of the multidisciplinary field's first 50 years. At the ceremony, held on the morning of Friday, November 21,2004 at the DoubleTree Hotel in Philadelphia, we presented Walter Isard, the founder of our multidisciplinary field, as well as Antoine Bailly, the President of the Regional Science Association International, and David Boyce, the Association's Archivist, with commemorative first copies of the anniversary issue. This book, entitled Fifty Years of Regional Science, consists of a compendium of "thought" papers authored by a representative sampling of some of the field's leading scholars. For the special journal issue we originally titled the collection: "The Brightest of Dawns".

Historical perspective and new insights on the future directions of the field Written by leading scholars

Klappentext

This book was written on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI). It is the central commemorative memento of the Association's first 50 years. The book was coauthored by a team of a number of the leading scholars in the global regional science community. It documents the progress that has been made to date in interdisciplinary regional science research and represents a self-critical assessment of research priorities for the future. It contains a wealth of factual information about the development of the Regional Science Association International and of the Association's flagship journal "Papers in Regional Science". At the end of the volume, Walter Isard, the founder of the multidisciplinary field of Regional Science, looks ahead to some possible new developments.

Inhalt
Introducing the brightest of dawns: Regional science in Papers.- A short history of the field of regional science.- Path-breaking books in regional science.- Intellectual leaders of regional science: A half-century citation study.- Regional science: Directions for the future.- The new economic geography: Past, present and the future.- Agglomeration and networks in spatial economics.- Location, agglomeration and infrastructure.- Cities, regions and the decline of transport costs.- Transport in regional science: The death of distance is premature.- Growth, development and innovation: A look backward and forward.- Trade and spatial economic interdependence.- The environment in regional science: An eclectic review.- Crossing boundaries and borders: Regional science advances in migration modelling.- Spatial interaction modelling.- GIS and spatial data analysis: Converging perspectives.- The future (near and far) of regional science.