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The role of ports in the making of major cities: Self-agglomeration and hub-effect
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In this article, an evolutionary model of spatial economic development in which agglomeration economies and the hub effect of transport nodes interplay in the making of major cities is proposed.About:
This article is published in Journal of Development Economics.The article was published on 1996-04-01. It has received 386 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Economies of agglomeration.read more
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Micro-Foundations of Urban Agglomeration Economies
Gilles Duranton,Diego Puga +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the theoretical micro-foundations of urban agglomeration economies are studied, based on sharing, matching, and learning mechanisms, and a handbook chapter is presented.
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What's new about the new economic geography?
TL;DR: A new genre of research, often described as the "new economic geography", has emerged as discussed by the authors, which differs from traditional work in economic geography mainly in adopting a modelling strategy that exploits the same technical tricks that have played such a large role in the 'new trade' and 'new growth' theories; these modelling tricks, while they preclude any claims of generality, do allow the construction of models that clearly derive aggregate behaviour from individual maximization.
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Are Cities Dying
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the costs and benefits of cities around the question: "Are cities becoming obsolete?" While minimizing transport costs for manufactured goods no longer justifies the existence of cities, they still facilitate the division of labor and the flow of ideas.
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Bones, bombs and break points: The geography of economic activity
TL;DR: This paper examined the distribution of regional population in Japan from the Stone Age to the modern era, and found that long-run city size is robust even to large temporary shocks such as the Allied bombing of Japanese cities in WWII as a shock to relative city sizes.
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European Regional Policies in Light of Recent Location Theories
TL;DR: Despite large regional policy expenditures, regional inequalities in Europe have not narrowed substantially over the last two decades, and by some measures have even widened as discussed by the authors, and the role of regional policies, and especially of transport infrastructure improvements, in such an environment.
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Economic Space: Theory and Applications
TL;DR: The distinction between abstract space and economic analysis is discussed in this article, where three types of economic spaces are defined: monetary space, national space, and homogeneous aggregate space, respectively.