{"id":3458,"date":"2026-09-04T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T11:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/?p=3458"},"modified":"2026-09-04T13:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T11:27:09","slug":"new-book-on-spatial-economics-by-hans-koster-stef-proost-and-jacques-francois-thisse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/en\/new-book-on-spatial-economics-by-hans-koster-stef-proost-and-jacques-francois-thisse\/","title":{"rendered":"New book on &#8216;Spatial Economics&#8217; by Hans Koster, Stef Proost and Jacques-Fran\u00e7ois Thisse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Land, by its very nature, is immobile and unproduced, creating competition for prime locations that drives disparities in economic outcomes. Transportation, meanwhile, serves as the mechanism for overcoming spatial frictions but imposes costs that influence where firms and individuals choose to locate. Together, these factors explain the emergence and persistence of cities, regional disparities, and even global patterns of economic concentration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In <em>Spatial Economics<\/em> (published by Oxford University Press in September 2026), Koster, Proost, and Thisse explore how cities, regions, and the global economy are shaped by the interplay between location, land use, and transportation. They examine why economic activities cluster in metropolitan areas and disperse across vast regions, driven by the balance between agglomeration gains and congestion and pollution costs. Blending classical theory with modern data and modeling, the book addresses urbanization, spatial inequality, and the effects of infrastructure and land-use policy. Accessible yet rigorous, it offers valuable insights into the geographic organization of economic activity in today\u2019s interconnected world.<br><br>Written for graduate (master\u2019s and PhD) students and academics interested in the economics of space, cities, and regions \u2014 and for policymakers and practitioners working on urban and regional issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/book\/62686\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">More information >>><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Land, by its very nature, is immobile and unproduced, creating competition for prime locations that drives disparities in economic outcomes. Transportation, meanwhile, serves as the mechanism for overcoming spatial frictions but imposes costs that influence where firms and individuals choose to locate. Together, these factors explain the emergence and persistence of cities, regional disparities, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geen-categorie"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3459,"href":"https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions\/3459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}