2) What is meant by an "export base" industry and what is its significance in regional economic analysis? What are some of the advantages and shortcomings of the concept?

3) Is metropolitan economic growth driven by people following jobs or by jobs following people? Explain how Economic Base Theory and the New Growth Theory differ in their answers to that question.

4) In William Alonso's model of the urban land market, how would an increase in the number of firms allowing employees to work remotely from home affect the bid-rent function for residential land? How would you expect it to affect the pattern of land use in a metropolitan area?