Honoring David Boyce for his legendary contributions to the fields of transportation modeling and regional science, the chapters in this festschrift highlight and analyze state-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice methodologies and theories in transportation modeling, regional and urban planning

"Considerable prior analysis has gone into the study of zoning restrictions on locational choice and on fiscal burdens. The prior work on zoning - particularly fiscal or exclusionary zoning - has provided both inconclusive theoretical results and quite inconsistent empirical support of the...

1. Introduction -- 2. Regional competitiveness -- 3. World Competitiveness Index of Regions -- 4. Regional competitiveness and economic development -- 5. Regional competitiveness and stages of development -- 6. Regional evolution and waves of growth -- 7. The competitiveness of European regions...