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It is my great honor and pleasure to write about my 50-year academic journey in the field of Regional Science. Without my encounter with Professor Walter Isard and Regional Science in the late 1960s, my life would never have been the same. Before tal

My first exposure to Regional Science was through my late uncle, Marcel Anselin, who was an economics and planning professor at the University of Ghent in Belgium. I was an undergraduate in economics at the Free University of Brussels (the VUB) and h

I grew up in Pittsburgh, during its “Smoky City era”, before the Pittsburgh of today, a hub of technology and R&D. As a child, my favorite pastime was attending Pirates games at Forbes Field. My dream was to be a professional baseball player. I could

How does one become a regional scientist? In my case my high school mathematics teacher in Uithoorn, the Netherlands, recommended that I should study something challenging like econometrics. Not having a strong preference for an alternative disciplin

I grew up in Toledo, Ohio and attended the University of Toledo (UT) which was located a few miles from where my parents lived. I majored in economics and after completing an MA degree in 1977, I spent a year teaching as an instructor at Bowling Gree

“…I THINK YOU should you should try to acquire two books, Location and the Space Economy and Methods of Regional Analysis both by Walter Isard. I think you might find the new field of regional science of interest.” These remarks were made at the end

ERSA Monthly news & updates July Issue - 07/2026 In this issue you will find: · ERSA2026 News · Journals news · Upcoming events · Sections News · Other news · Publications We wish you a good reading #ERSA2026 ERSA2026 Programme is out! 3-day session

New Issue: Regional Science Policy & Practice Regional Science Policy & Practice Volume 18, Issue 8, August 2026 Articles 21st century economic development: An update on remote work and household income Article Number 100323 Roberto Gallardo, Brian W

Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research has published the 65rd Issue, the second volume corresponding to 2026. Below you will find the summaries of the papers published in this volume, which can be accessed at https://investigacione

NARSC Update Special Sessions at NARSC 2026 Conference organizers welcome individual papers and organized sessions relating to a wide variety of topics that are included within the diverse realm of regional science. As usual, there will be several or

The RSAI Young Researchers Prize aims to showcase the research of young scholars in regional science through paper presentation and discussion organized at the Regional Science Association World Congress. After close evaluation of the candidates of t

New Issue: Regional Science Policy & Practice Regional Science Policy & Practice Volume 18, Issue 7, July 2026 Articles Re-bordering Schengen? Explaining the spatial patterns of border control measures Article Number 100315 Tobias Chilla, Dominik Ber

New Issue: Regional Science Policy & Practice Regional Science Policy & Practice Volume 18, Issue 6, June 2026 Articles One instrument, two goals: Using taxation to achieve efficiency and rent capture in fisheries management Article Number 100301 Nil

New Issue: Papers in Regional Science New issue available on ScienceDirect Papers in Regional Science Volume 105, Issue 3, June 2026 Articles The geography of the green transition: Performance, vulnerabilities and opportunities Article Number 100150

SARAH LOW, PROFESSOR AND head of the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics within the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has been named a Fellow of the Regional Sci

I grew up in the north of England and went to school in Bury where I took ‘A’ Levels in maths, physics and geography in the sixth form. After leaving school in the mid-1960s, I took an undergraduate degree in geography at Sheffield University and a M

I am not sure whether these short presentations of the scientific and cultural trajectories of RSAI Fellows could be of any use or inspiration for younger scholars in regional science. In fact, as Dante meant with his Comedy, in societies there is no