Regional science Regional science Alfred Weber ( July 30 1868 in Erfurt - May 2 1958 in Heidelberg) German economist, sociologist and theoretician of culture and his work was influential in the development of modern economic geography. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alfred Weber"
Central Place Theory is a geographical theory that seeks to explain the size and spacing of human settlements. It rests on the notion that centralisation is a natural principle of order and that human settlements follow it. Created by Walter Christaller, the theory suggests that there are laws determining the number, size and distribution of towns. He was interested only in their functions as markets, thus excluding specialist towns such as mining settlements. He argued that the significance of a town cannot be measured by population alone. ...more on Wikipedia about "Central Place Theory"
Johann Heinrich von Thünen ( 24 June 1783 - 22 September 1850) "ranks alongside Marx as the greatest economist of the nineteeth century" ( Fernand Braudel). Von Thünen was a Mecklenburg (north German) landowner, who in the first volume of his treatise, The Isolated State (1826), developed the first serious treatment of spatial economics, connecting it with the theory of rent. The importance lies less in the pattern of land use predicted than in its analytical approach. ...more on Wikipedia about "Johann Heinrich von Thünen"
Masahisa Fujita (born in 1943) is a Japanese economist and professor at Kyoto university, who has studied regional science and Urban Economics and International Trade, Spatial Economy (New Economic Geography). ...more on Wikipedia about "Masahisa Fujita"
Paul Robin Krugman (born February 28, 1953) is a liberal economist who has written several books and since 2000 has written a twice-weekly op-edcolumn for The New York Times. He is currently a professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University. ...more on Wikipedia about "Paul Krugman"
Regional science is an "allied" field of human geography that emerged in 1950s North America to provide a stronger objective and quantitative base to research on human activities. Its formal roots date to the aggressive campaigns by Walter Isard and his supporters to promote the "objective" and "scientific" analysis of settlement, industrial location, and urban development from the 1950s. Isard targeted key universities and campaigned tirelessly. Supporters claimed that settlement patterns and location may be subjected to formal economic and mathematical modeling, which opens the possibility of optimisation (e.g. of location of a facility) and prediction (e.g. of future supply-demand relationships across space). Topics in regional science include, but are not limited to, behavioral modeling of location, transportation, and migration decisions, land use and urban development, inter-industry analysis, environmental and ecological analysis, resource management, urban and regional policy analysis, geographical information systems, and spatial statistics. ...more on Wikipedia about "Regional science"
In national politics (or low politics), regionalisation is a process of dividing a political entity — typically a country — into smaller regions, and transferring power from the central government to the regions. Opposite process is called unitarisation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Regionalisation" It must be http://www.shortopedia.com. shortopedia
Urban Economics, a branch of Microeconomics, that studies the location of households and firms. While other forms of economics do not account for spatial relationships between people and organizations, urban economics focuses on these spatial relationships to understand the formation, functioning, and development of cities. ...more on Wikipedia about "Urban economics"
William Louis Garrison (born 1924) is an American geographer and transportation analyst, currently a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. While at the University of Washington in the 1950s, Garrison led the "quantitative revolution" in geography, which applied computers and statistics to the study of spatial problems. As such, he was one of the founders of regional science. Many of his students (dubbed the "space cadets") went on to become noted professors themselves, including: Brian Berry, Ronald Boyce, Duane Marble, Richard Morrill, John Nystuen, William Bunge, Michael Dacey, Arthur Getis, and Waldo Tobler. His transportation work focuses on innovation, the deployment of modes and logistic curves, alternative vehicles and the future of the car. ...more on Wikipedia about "William Garrison (geographer)"
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