Includes index.

Contents: Introduction -- Part 1: New economic geography:> Increasing returns and economic geography -- Equilibrium locations of vertically linked industries -- Globalization and the inequality of nations -- The spread of industry--The size of regions -- The rise and fall of regional inequalities -- Agglomeration and trade revisited -- History versus expectations -- Agglomeration and endogenous capital -- Part 2: Urban systems: The sizes and types of cities -- When is the economy monocentric? -- A modeling of megalopolis formation -- On the evolution of hierarchical urban systems -- Trade policy and the third wold metropolis -- Externalities, indivisibility, nonreplicability, and agglomeration --