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About the origin of cities

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  • André de Palma
  • Yorgos Y. Papageorgiou
  • Jacques-François Thisise
  • Philip Ushchev

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We provide a bare--bones framework that uncovers the circumstances which lead either to the emergence of equally-spaced and equally-sized central places or to a hierarchy of central places. We show how these patterns reflect the preferences of agents and the efficiency of transportation and communication technologies. Under one class of agents, the economy is characterized by a uniform distribution or by a periodic distribution of central places having the same size. Under two asymmetric classes of agents, the interaction between agents may give rise to a hierarchy of settlements with one or several primate cities.
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  • André de Palma & Yorgos Y. Papageorgiou & Jacques-François Thisise & Philip Ushchev, 2019. "About the origin of cities," LIDAM Reprints CORE 3023, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE).
    • Handle: RePEc:cor:louvrp:3023
    Note: In : Journal of Urban Economics, 111, 1-13, 2019
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    1. Nathalie Picard & André de Palma, 2025. "Residential Location Models: Analyzing Segregation, Borrowing Constraints, and Policy Implications," Working Papers of BETA 2025-33, Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée, UDS, Strasbourg.
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    4. Carl Gaigné & Jacques-François Thisse, 2013. "New Economic Geography and the City," Working Papers SMART 13-02, INRAE UMR SMART.
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    10. Roy Cerqueti & Eleonora Cutrini, 2021. "A Framework for Modelling Economic Regional Location Processes Under Uncertainty," Journal of Quantitative Economics, Springer;The Indian Econometric Society (TIES), vol. 19(4), pages 703-725, December.

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    • R14 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Land Use Patterns

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