Monocentric Versus Polycentric Models in Urban Economics

Tomoya Mori

No 611, KIER Working Papers from Kyoto University, Institute of Economic Research

Abstract: This article overviews the development of the formal modelling framework for the urban spatial structure which started in 1960s and grew dramatically thereafter. Modelling in the 1970s focused on the endogenous formation of the central business district within a city. Then richer polycentric city models were developed in 1980s, where the number, location and spatial extent of the business districts are determined endogenously. The emergence of the new economic geography in 1990s provided a framework capable of explaining the spatial distribution of cities (rather than the business districts within a city) and their industrial structure in a general location-equilibrium model.

Pages: 7pages
Date: 2006-01
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