Subject(s): Local government -- Public growth -- Urban development -- Urban economics -- Market forces in the development of cities : cities development, History of western urbanization, Urban economic growth Internal scale economic production , Agglomerative economic production, Localization, Commercial firms and trading cities, Migration, labour cost,Transport costs vs Local in put costs , Industrial revolution, Monopolist pricing , Central place theory , Urban labour market and economic growth , Public policy and economic growth, Costs of employment growth, Plant-Closure legislation -- land rent and urban land use patterns -- Introduction to land rent and land use , land rent and fertility , Linear and convex land rent function, market interactions , land use in the monocentric city, Commercial and industrial land use, Bid-rent function of manufactures , Residential land use, Communiting costs , Empirical estimates of rent and density functions , general equilibrium land use, Export sales, streetcar system, Property tax, Suburbanization and modern cities , Intracity and intercity truck, single story plants, suburban airports, Suburbanization and urbanization , land use controls and zoning, Nuisance zoning, Fiscal zoning, Design zoning, legal environment of land use control -- Federal response to urban problems -- Cause of poverty, Poverty and public policy , AFDC, Negative income tax, In-Kind transfers, Welfare reforms, Child support and earned income credit , Dispersal policies, Housing , Heterogeneity and immobility, Durability of housing, Racial discrimination and segregation , Housing polices , Public housing, consumer subsidies, rent control -- Urban problem and local government -- Federalism, Metropolitan consolidation , Growth in local spending, Fiscal health of central cities, Voting with ballots and feet, Median voter rule, Tiebout model, Local taxes and intergovernmental grants , Residential property tax, tax on commercial and industrial property, Intergovernmental grants, Capitalization and distributional effects, Tax expenditures , Deductibility of local taxes , Autos and highways , Equilibrium vs optimum traffic volume, Congestion tax, Highway pricing and traffic volume in the long run, congestion and land use patterns, Air pollution, Auto safety -- mass transit, BART, Travel mode, subsidies for mass transit, deregulation : private provision of transit, transporting and land use patterns, Education , Inequalities, Desegregation policy, Guaranteed tax-based plan, Michigan equalization plan, California equalization program, Crime and punishment, Crime prevention, Illegal commodities and victimless crime -- Tools of microeconomics -- Model of supply and demand, Theory of consumer choice, Theory of workers choice, Marginal decision making