This book contains a systematized set of contributions to the understanding of regional systems. It has partly a review and partly an exploratory nature. Major research areas dealt with are: spatial patterns of households and firms; spatial impacts of new technologies; economic restructuring and spatial dynamics; new analytical methods and models.

Inhalt
A Preface to Regional Science.- 1. A Preface to Regional Science.- A. Spatial Patterns of Households and Firms.- 2. The Ten Commandments of Migration Research.- 3. Major Issues in Regional Labour Market Analysis.- 4. Endogenous Spatial Externalities in Residential Location Theory.- 5. The Effect of Transaction Costs in the Housing Market.- 6. Transportation, Spatial Interaction, Telecommunication and Information Systems: A Research Agenda.- 7. Urban Land Use and the Location of Polluting Plants.- B. Spatial Impacts of New Technology.- 8. High Technology Industries - A Panacea for Peripheral Regions? The Evidence from Israel.- 9. The Impact of New Information Technologies on Spatial Inequalities.- 10. Technological Change, Uncertainty and Innovation Networks: Towards a Dynamic Theory of Economic Space.- 11. Technical Change and Regional Development: Some Further Developments with the Sequential Interindustry Model.- C Economic Restructuring and Spatial Dynamics.- 12. The Evolution of Regional Economies: Sectoral Restructuring and Regional Development over the Long Term.- 13. The European Internal Market and the Internationalisation of Small and Medium Size Enterprises.- 14. Soudy 3: A Supply-Oriented Urban Dynamics Model with Innovation and Synergy Effects.- 15. Interregional Migration: Dynamic Theory and Comparative Analysis.- D. Advances In Regional Science Methods.- 16. Quantitative Methods in Regional Science: Perspectives on Research Directions.- 17. A Multiregional Input-Output Model for Israel and Extensions: Methodology and Experience.- 18. Ex Post Measurement of Effects of Environmental Policy by Means of Linear Structural Equation Models.- 19. Regional Medicometry: Health Expenditures, Regional Disparities, Problems and Policies.- 20. On the Significance of Economic and Non-Economic Components of Regional Development.- List of Contributors.