Urban and Regional Development

Agriculture, Agricultural Policy, Rural Areas, Rural Transformation, Small-Scale Peasantry, and Agricultural Enterprises

Informal settlement formation, urban planning, migration, and the resulting spatial and social transformations

The general concept of urban economy, the specifics of location theory, external economies, and urban land markets

Urbanization, urban growth, and land economics, the determinants of city size, the nuances of land profit (or "rant") theories

The evolution of regional planning and development from traditional, centralized approaches to modern, multi-level, and sustainable strategies

The capital in urban contexts from its circulatory mechanisms to the regulatory roles that planning can play