Regional science: The state of the art
梳理了区域科学、区域经济学和城市经济学的定义与关系，指出区域科学是多学科工具箱，用于分析区域产出和就业等宏观问题，而城市经济学则微观化处理家庭选址。
The study of spatial phenomena is labeled by many terms. Three of them are regional science, regional economies, and urban economics. The progression tends to be from operational modeling to economic theorizing. Regional science is a multidisciplinary tool box used to address macro issues such as the determination of output and employment across regions. Regional economics focuses on the economics within a given region, while urban economics casts the analysis in a microeconomic framework with land-consuming households. However, the progression from regional science to urban economics could also be considered to be a progression from the most general to the most specific. In economics, agents have fixed locations; the only role of location is as a device to differentiate commodities. General equilibrium analysis can be used to explain the supply of and demand for commodities, differentiated by location, along with the resulting trade flows. The location of consumers is endogenized in urban economics, conditional on firm locations. In other branches of the regional