عنوان

An Economic Theory of Cities :

3642560601

9783642560606

b570286

An Economic Theory of Cities :

[Book]

Spatial Models with Capital, Knowledge, and Structures

by Wei-Bin Zhang.

Berlin, Heidelberg

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

2002

(xi, 228 pages)

Lecture notes in economics and mathematical systems, 512.

Introduction --; Urban Growth with Housing and Spatial Structure --; Spatial Pattern Formation with Capital and Knowledge --; Urban Structure with Growth and Sexual Division of Labor --; Dynamic Pattern Formation with Heterogeneous Population --; Two-Group Spatial Structures with Capital and Knowledge --; Urban Growth and Pattern Formation with Preference Change --; Urban-Rural Division of Labor with Spatial Amenities --; Spatial Equilibrium with Multiple Cities --; Growth with International Trade and Urban Pattern Formation --; Nonlinear Dynamics of a Multi-City System --; Further Issues on Cities --; Bibliography --; Author Index.

This book is concerned with dynamic relations between urban division of labor, division of consumption and determination of prices structure within a perfectly competitive framework in spatial economy. Our analytical framework examines the issues related to urban dynamics raised in the traditional urban economic theories and provides insights into the issues related to interdependence between knowledge creation and utilization and spatial economies examined by the new urban/regional economic theory. The comparative advantage of our theory is that in providing rich insights into the complex of urban evolution it uses only a few concepts and simplified functional forms and accepts a few assumptions about the behavior of consumers, producers and institutional structures over space.

Economics.

Geography.

Regional economics.

by Wei-Bin Zhang.

Weibin Zhang

[Book]

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