Complex Socio-Economic Systems in Regional Science -- New Developments in Input-Output Analysis -- Interregional Computable General Equilibrium Models -- Optimality Versus Stability: Pattern Formation in Spatial Economics -- Urban and Hinterland Evolution Under Growing Population Pressure -- Socio-Spatial Dynamics and Discrete Non-Linear Probabilistic Chains -- Principles of Neural Spatial Interaction Modeling -- Quick but not so Dirty ML Estimation of Spatial Autoregressive Models -- Innovation Diffusion Theory: 100 Years of Development -- Urban Economics at a Cross-Road -- Conclusion.

Regional Science is now more than 50 years old; in the last two decades, significant advances in methodology have occurred, spurred in large part by access to computers. The range of analytical techniques now available is enormous; this books provides a sampling of the toolkit that is now at the disposal of analysts interested in understanding and interpreting the complexity of the spatial structure of sub- national economies. The set of tools ranges from the more traditional (input-output) to new developments in computable general equilibrium models, nonlinear dynamics, neural modelling and innovation.