Housing and Commuting: The Theory of Urban Residential Structure - A Textbook in Urban Economics

Housing and Commuting: The Theory of Urban Residential Structure – A Textbook in Urban Economics

Authors : John Yinger (Syracuse University, USA)

Publisher : World Scientific

ISBN : 978-981-3206-65-6

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The field of urban economics is built on an analysis of housing prices, land rents, housing consumption, spatial form, and other aspects of urban residential structure. Drawing on the journal publications and teaching notes of Professor John Yinger of Syracuse University, Housing and Commuting: The Theory of Urban Residential Structure presents a simple model of urban residential structure and shows how the model's results change when key assumptions are made more realistic. This book provides a wide-ranging introduction to research on urban residential structure. Topics covered range from theoretical analysis of urban structure with different transportation systems or multiple worksites to empirical work on the impact of local public services on house values and the impact of racial prejudice and discrimination on housing choices. Graduate students and scholars who want to learn about research in urban economics will find this book to be a good starting point.

John Yinger is Trustee Professor of Public Administration and Economics at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University. He also directs the Education Finance and Accountability Program, which promotes research, education, and debate about fundamental issues in the elementary and secondary school system in the US. Yinger studies racial and ethnic discrimination in housing and mortgage markets; state and local public finance, particularly education; and urban economics. He has published widely in professional journals and is the author, co-author, or editor of five books. He served as senior staff economist in the President's Council of Economic Advisers, and taught at Harvard University and the University of Michigan. Yinger received his PhD from Princeton in 1975.

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