Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis

Cities and regions have long captured the imagination of sociologists, economists, and urbanists. From Alfred Marshall to Robert Park and Jane Jacobs, cities have been seen as cauldrons of diversity and difference and as fonts for creativity and innovation. Yet until recently, social scientists concerned with regional…

• HASAN TAHSİN SELÇUK

There is consensus among scholars and policy makers that knowledge is one of the key drivers of long-run economic growth. It is also clear from the literature that not all knowledge has the same value. However, too often in economic geography and cognate fields we have been obsessed with counting knowledge inputs and…

• EMİNE SEDEF AKGÜNGÖR

The objective of this paper is to examine regional convergence and core‐periphery relations in Turkey. The main question explores the degree to which there has been a transformation of interregional disparities in terms of “convergence” and performance of peripheral regions in Turkey by considering GDP per capita over…

• EMİNE FERHAN GEZİCİ KORTEN

The authors build on a recent development in urban geographic theory, providing evidence of an oscillatory behavior in spatiotemporal patterns of urban growth. With the aid of remotely sensed data, the spatial extent of urban areas in the Houston (USA) metropolitan region from 1974 to 2002 was analyzed by spatial metr…

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• MEHMET KARAÇUKA

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The theory of economic development based on industry clusters emphasizes the importance of co-location of firms or industries with potential to share technical information and knowledge transfer. The paper identifies industry cluster templates in Turkey using the 1996 Turkish input/output table. Engineering and textil…

• EMİNE SEDEF AKGÜNGÖR

Abstract The emergent crisis of affordable urban housing coupled with a sustained decline in internal migration rates in many Western countries warrants a thorough exploration of the relation between housing costs and internal migration. Although it is well established that housing is an important contextual determina…

Abstract Much recent work has illuminated the growth, innovation, and prosperity of entire cities, but there is relatively less evidence concerning the growth and prosperity of individual neighborhoods. In this paper we show that diversity of amenities within a city neighborhood, computed from openly available points…

Previous studies on geographical distribution of economic activity in Turkey demonstrate that firms are localized in major metropolitan areas as well as a set of emerging regions. The aim of the paper is to complement the findings of the studies on regional and industrial concentration in Turkey's manufacturing indust…

• EMİNE SEDEF AKGÜNGÖR

Previous studies on geographical distribution of economic activity in Turkey demonstrate that firms are localized in major metropolitan areas as well as a set of emerging regions. The aim of the paper is to complement the findings of the studies on regional and industrial concentration in Turkey's manufacturing indust…

• PINAR AKSEKİ