ABSTRACT
Urbanization an old phenomenon but with new facets - Why concentrate on Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas? - Problems of urban misuses of human resources are associated with decay of once modern and thriving industrial plants, the impact on firms in one industry of economies of scale in another, the range of the impact of prejudice in all the factor markets, and the burdens of caring for dependent, needy populations - Problems of urban subsidies to households, including to whom and when to give public aid - Migration is a very limited answer to the production problem; it poses great questions on the supply side.
