THIS is a model of the country round Streatley-on-Thames, constructed by cutting out pieces of cardboard according to the contour lines and placing them one above another in the positions shown by the ...

The new model could help policy-makers understand how the spatial distribution of industrial firms and their impact on the local environment affect regional development Regional and urban economics ...

Journal of Economic Geography, Vol. 14, No. 3 (May 2014), pp. 547-588 (42 pages) Abstract Dating from the seminal work of Ellison and Glaeser in 1997, a wealth of evidence for the ubiquity of ...

In a large windowless room and with the hum of a motor steadily pumping water, brightly painted sticks are dropped one at a time into the top of a model river system. Carried by the flow of water, ...