Looking at land use within metropolitan areas, the urban economist seeks to analyze the spatial organization of activities within cities.

In attempts to explain observed patterns of land use, the urban economist examines the intra-city location choices of firms and households.

The organization is currently headed by Gregory K. Ingram, an urban economist and former director of evaluation for the World Bank.

The resulting paper, "Urban Decline and Durable Housing," caused a stir among urban economists even before its publication last year.

The situation, says Louis Winnick, an urban economist who has studied housing in New York for decades, is not complicated.

The biggest globalization lift in house prices has been in what urban economists call "primate cities."

It is advocated by many urban planners and urban economists, of widely varying political points of view.

He started his academic career planning to become an urban economist.

She has been married for 47 years to James Heilbrun, a Manhattan-born urban economist at Fordham University.

Mr. Moss, the urban economist from NYU, believes the city should encourage development on a grand scale.