Editing Regional science (section)

==Seminal publications==

Topically speaking, regional science took off in the wake of [[Walter Christaller]]'s book ''Die Zentralen Orte in Sűddeutschland'' (Verlag von Gustav Fischer, Jena, 1933; transl. ''Central Places in Southern Germany'', 1966), soon followed by [[Tord Palander]]'s (1935) ''Beiträge zur Standortstheorie''; [[August Lösch]]'s ''Die räumliche Ordnung der Wirtschaft'' (Verlag von Gustav Fischer, Jena, 1940; 2nd rev. edit., 1944; transl. ''The Economics of Location'', 1954); and [[Edgar M. Hoover]]'s two books--''Location Theory and the Shoe and Leather Industry'' (1938) and ''The Location of Economic Activity'' (1948). Other important early publications include: [[Edward Chamberlin|Edward H. Chamberlin]]'s (1950) ''The Theory of Monopolistic Competition''; [[François Perroux]]'s (1950) ''Economic Spaces: Theory and Application''; [[Torsten Hägerstrand]]'s (1953) ''Innovationsförloppet ur Korologisk Synpunkt''; [[Edgar S. Dunn]]'s (1954)''The Location of Agricultural Production''; [[Martin J. Beckmann]], C.B McGuire, and Clifford B. Winston's (1956) ''Studies in the Economics of Transportation''; [[Melvin L. Greenhut]]'s (1956) ''Plant Location in Theory and Practice''; [[Gunnar Myrdal]]'s (1957) ''Economic Theory and Underdeveloped Regions''; [[Albert O. Hirschman]]'s (1958) ''The Strategy of Economic Development''; and [[Claude Ponsard]]'s (1958) ''Histoire des Théories Économiques Spatiales''. Nonetheless, Walter Isard's first book in 1956, ''Location and Space Economy'', apparently captured the imagination of many, and his third, ''Methods of Regional Analysis'', published in 1960, only sealed his position as the father of the field.

As is typically the case, the above works were built on the shoulders of giants. Much of this predecessor work is documented well in Walter Isard's ''Location and Space Economy''<ref>Isard, Walter. 1956. ''Location and Space-Economy: A General Theory Relating to Industrial Location, Market Areas, Land Use, Trade and Urban Structure'' Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.</ref> as well as Claude Ponsard's ''Histoire des Théorie Économique Spatiales''.<ref>Ponsard, Claude. 1958. ''Histoire des Théories Économiques Spatiales''. Paris: Librairie Armand Colin (Translated in 1983 by Benjamin H. Stevens, Margaret Chevallier and Joaquin P. Pujol as ''History of Spatial Economic Theory''. Springer-Verlag: New York.)</ref> Particularly important was the contribution by 19th century German economists to [[location theory]]. The early German hegemony more or less starts with [[Johann Heinrich von Thünen]] and runs through both [[Wilhelm Launhardt]] and [[Alfred Weber]] to [[Walter Christaller]] and [[August Lösch]].