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Anita A. Summers is professor emerita of public policy and management and codirector of the Wharton Urban Decentralization Project in the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and has appointments in the real estate department and the graduate school of education. She was the chair of the department from 1983 to 1988, and was formerly head of the Urban Research Section of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. She has published a number of articles on educational efficiency in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Human Resources, and Advances in Applied Microeconomics. She is the author (with Thomas F. Luce) of three books on economic development and public finance issues in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 1985, 1986, and 1987, and the author of a number of working papers on the design of a new federal urban policy in the United States. She is currently a participating scholar at the Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy of the Brookings Institution, and a member of the Research Advisory Committee of the Pennsylvania Economy League. Paul C. Cheshire has been professor of economic geography at the London School of Economics since 1995, having previously been professor of urban and regional economics at the University of Reading. He has been a consultant to numerous government and international organizations. Between 1983 and 1989 he directed a large-scale study, funded by the European Commission, of European urban and regional development. He is presently directing a study within the ESRC's Cities Initiative modeling urban growth and spatial interactions in Europe. His research interests include urban and regional systems, the economics of land use and land use planning, and the hedonic analysis of urban housing and land markets. His books include Urban Problems in Western Europe: An Economic Analysis (with D.G. Hay, 1989), Territorial Competition in an Integrating Europe: Local Impact and Public Policy (with I. R. Gordon, 1995), and Regions in Rivalry: The Impacts of Territorial Competition (forthcoming), and he has also written numerous articles for professional journals. Lanfranco Senn is professor of regional and urban economics at Bocconi University of Milan, where he is also director of the Research Center in Regional Economics, Transport, and Tourism (CERTET). He is chairman of a degree program in public administration and international organizations. He has taught in a number of Italian universities (Tret, Bari, and Bergamo). A former president of the Italian section of the Regional Science Association, he is also an expert on regional policies for the European Commission, and is a member of the board of RESER, a European network on services and space. He is president of the Scientific Committee of Gruppo CLAS, a major consulting firm in Italy, and is currently counselor to the Minister of Public Works and of Transport of the Italian government. He has written in the fields of regional and urban economics, input-output analysis, and service activities. He recently coedited and contributed to Innovation Networks and Innovative 'Milieux': A Challenge for Regional Development with Denis Maillat and Michel Quevit.
Urban Change in the United States and Western Europe: Comparative Analysis and Policy, edited by Anita A. Summers, Paul C. Cheshire and Lanfranco Senn, is available from the Urban Institute Press (paper, ISBN 0-87766-683-0, $39.50). To obtain a copy call (202) 261-5687 or 800.537.5487.
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