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The Economic Value of Depth

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  • Pedro Afonso Fernandes

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The main goal of this article is to introduce an economic perspective in the social logic of space. Firstly, we describe the economic model of a linear city to show how depth can generate value by creating local monopolies in less integrated spaces. Then, a new syntactic measure, the d-value, is proposed to capture the relation between the depth of some space from outside and the mean depth of all spaces from outside. An application to a public housing estate suggests that economic activities and services may be located in spaces with a d-value close to one. The article is complemented by a Prolog programme with a special predicate to compute the d-value.

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  • Pedro Afonso Fernandes, 2025. "The Economic Value of Depth," Papers 2506.15354, arXiv.org.
    • Handle: RePEc:arx:papers:2506.15354
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