| Article ID: | iaor20042498 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 123 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 189 |
| End Page Number: | 201 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2003 |
| Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
| Authors: | Paelinck Jean H.P. |
Regional science is about integrating different spatial disciplines, in particular spatial economics and economic geography. In this spirit a first study bears on the envelopment of production units inside an urban technological complex, comparing natural and logarithmic envelopments from the point of view of their respective representative efficiency. A second and related study treats the reverse problem: given Manhattan distances between production units, which are their respective locations?