9:00 PM - North American Regional Science Council

Friday, 09 November 2012Essen; Jens Suedekum, University of Duisburg‐EssenOn the number and size of cities/jurisdictionswithin a large metropolitan area Carl Gaigné,INRA Rennes; stéphane Riou, GATE L‐SEUniversity of Saint‐Etienne; Jacques‐FrançoisThisse, CORE CREA HSETown and city jobs: job contents skills and citysize Suzanne Kok, University of GroningenDiscussants: Kristian Giesen, University of Duisburg‐Essen Jacques‐François Thisse, CORE CREA HSE Suzanne Kok, University of Groningen Yannis Ioannides, Tufts University70. Location Modeling I: Friday November 9 | 8:00AM – 10:00 AM | Provinces IIOrganizers: Tony H Grubesic, Drexel University;Timothy C Matisziw, University of Missouri ‐ ColumbiaChair: Timothy C Matisziw, University of Missouri ‐ColumbiaEvaluating Greece’s new administrative units: ACase Example Using Location‐AllocationModeling. Yorgos N. Photis, University ofThessaly; Argiro Papafragaki, national technicalGeographic Approaches for ModelingRemoteness Timothy C. Matisziw, University ofMissouri ‐ Columbia ; Tony H. Grubesic, DrexelUniversityGeographical flows decomposition: acomparative analysis Yongwan Chun, Universityof Texas ‐ Dallas ; Daniel A. Griffith, University ofTexas ‐ DallasEvaluating polygon overlay to support coveragemodeling Ran Wei, Arizona State University; AlanT. Murray, Arizona State UniversityDiscussants: Hyun Kim, University of Tennessee Rick Church, University Of California At SantaBarbara56