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The distribution of population and employment in a polycentric city: the case of Los Angeles.

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The distribution of population and employment in metropolitan Los Angeles in 1970 and 1980 is examined in this article, where the geographical distribution of employment combined job clustering around a few major employment centers with a high degree of general job dispersion.
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The distribution of population and employment in metropolitan Los Angeles in 1970 and 1980 is examined in this paper. Population continued to disperse in the 1970s, whereas the geographical distribution of employment combined job clustering around a few major employment centers with a high degree of general job dispersion. In Los Angeles polycentrism has been associated with shorter work trips, particularly intracounty trips in the more peripheral counties.

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Multiple equilibria and structural transition of non-monocentric urban configurations☆

TL;DR: In this paper, a model of non-monocentric urban land use is presented, which requires neither employment nor residential location to be specified a priori, and is capable of yielding multicentric pattern as well as monocentric and dispersed patterns, and generally yields multiple equilibria under each fixed set of parameter values.
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Equilibrium land use patterns in a nonmonocentric city

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a non-monocentric urban land use model, which incorporates interdependences among economic activities, without prespecified locations of employment activities.
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Modelling urban population density in a multi-centered city.

TL;DR: This paper explores additional sources of bias overlooked in this controversy regarding whether or not calibrations of these models render unbiased parameter estimates, from both a conceptual and an empirical point of view.
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Efficient Resource Allocation in a Multinucleated City with Intermediate Goods

TL;DR: In this article, the dual problem and producer and consumer equilibrium are discussed. And a numerical example is given for the resource allocation problem in the transportation sector and land constraints in the United States.
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