Edited by Lily Kiminami, Associate Professor in Regional, Rural and Development Economics, Niigata University, Japan, Kenneth Button, University Professor, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, US and Peter Nijkamp, Professor Emeritus, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, the Centre for European Studies, Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza din Iasi, Romania and the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, China

• Contents:AcknowledgementsSeries Preface Kenneth Button and Peter NijkampIntroduction Public Facilities Planning: Scoping the Scene Lily Kiminami, Kenneth Button and Peter NijkampPART IEARLY CONTRIBUTION 1. Charles M. Tiebout (1956), ‘A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures’2. Michael B. Teitz (1968), ‘Toward a Theory of Urban Public Facility Location’PART IITHE THEORY OF PUBLIC FACILITY PLANNING 3. J.L. Wagner and L.M. Falkson (1975), ‘The Optimal Nodal Location of Public Facilities with Price-Sensitive Demand’4. Donald M. McAllister (1976), ‘Equity and Efficiency in Public Facility Location’5. David Bigman and Charles Re Velle (1978), ‘The Theory of Welfare Considerations in Public Facility Location Problems’6. Takaaki Takahashi (2004), ‘Spatial Competition of Governments in the Investment on Public Facilities’PART IIIINSTITUTIONAL ISSUES 7. Wallace E. Oates (1981), ‘On Local Finance and the Tiebout Model’8. Masahisa Fujita (1986), ‘Optimal Location of Public Facilities: Area Dominance Approach’9. Noboru Sakashita (1987), ‘Optimum Location of Public Facilities Under the Influence of the Land Market’10. Sajal Lahiri and Pascalis Raimondos-Møller (1998), ‘Public Good Provision and the Welfare Effects of Indirect Tax Harmonisation’PART IVROLE OF PRIVATE SECTOR 11. Eitan Berglas (1976), ‘On the Theory of Clubs’12. Amihai Glazer and Esko Niskanen (1997), ‘Why Voters May Prefer Congested Public Clubs’13. Gerhard Glomm and Roger Lagunoff (1998), ‘A Tiebout Theory of Public vs Private Provision of Collective Goods’PART VASSESSMENT TECHNIQUES 14. G. Terry Ross and Richard M. Soland (1980), ‘A Multicriteria Approach to the Location of Public Facilities’15. Edwin Hinloopen, Peter Nijkamp and Piet Rietveld (1983), ‘Qualitative Discrete Multiple Criteria Choice Models in Regional Planning’16. Richard L. Church and Kenneth L. Roberts (1983), ‘Generalized Coverage Models and Public Facility Location’17. Christian Stummer, Karl Doerner, Axel Focke and Kurt Heidenberger (2004), ‘Determining Location and Size of Medical Departments in a Hospital Network: A Multiobjective Decision Support Approach’PART VINEW APPROACHES 18. David S. Brookshire and V. Kerry Smith (1987), ‘Measuring Recreation Benefits: Conceptual and Empirical Issues’19. William G. Colclough, Lawrence A. Daellenbach and Keith R. Sherony (1994), ‘Estimating the Economic Impact of a Minor League Baseball Stadium’20. Bruce E. Perrott (1996), ‘Managing Strategic Issues in the Public Service’21. G. Higgs and S.D. White (1997), ‘Changes in Service Provision in Rural Areas. Part 1: The Use of GIS in Analysing Accessibility to Services in Rural Deprivation Research’22. Bruce K. Johnson and John C. Whitehead (2000), ‘Value of Public Goods from Sports Stadiums: The CVM Approach’PART VIICASE STUDIES OF APPLICATIONS 23. Andrew N. White (1979), ‘Accessibility and Public Facility Location’24. M. John Hodgson (1981), ‘The Location of Public Facilities Intermediate to the Journey to Work’25. Jan K. Brueckner (1982), ‘A Test for Allocative Efficiency in the Local Public Sector’26. Anthony Gar-On Yeh and Man Hong Chow (1996), ‘An Integrated GIS and Location-Allocation Approach to Public Facilities Planning – An Example of Open Space Planning’Name Index