TY  - JOUR
AU  - Kim,Sukkoo
AU  - Margo,Robert A.
TI  - Historical Perspectives on U.S. Economic Geography
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 9594
PY  - 2003
Y2  - March 2003
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9594
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9594.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Sukkoo Kim
Department of Economics
Washington University
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
Tel: 314/935-4961
Fax: 314/935-4156
E-Mail: soks@artsci.wustl.edu

Robert A. Margo
Department of Economics
Boston University
270 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215
Tel: 617/353-6819
Fax: 617/343-8495
E-Mail: margora@bu.edu
AB  - We review historical patterns of  economic geography' for the United States from the colonial period to the present day. The analysis is framed in terms of two geographic scales: regions and cities. The compelling reason for studying geographic areas of different scales is that models that explain the location of economic activities at one scale many not apply to other scales. We consider the process of settling the  frontier'; the development of national markets in goods and factors and, more generally, the convergence (and divergence) of regional economies; the growth of cities and the relationship between urbanization and trends in aggregate economic structure, such as industrialization; and changes in the internal spatial structure of cities.
ER  -