Excerpt from Urban Land Economics For the first time a course is now being given in Urban Land Economics. When one considers how fundamental this subject is, it seems strange, indeed, and almost incredible. Nevertheless it is in harmony with a very general development of different scientific subjects. Adam.smith long ago called attention to the fact that the strange and unfamiliar first attracts scientific attention. Astronomy long precedes economics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.