Dispersed Interactions of Urban Residents

Andrei V. Bazhanov and John M. Hartwick

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Abstract: Beckmann's interaction model has each resident touching base in face-to-face activity with every other resident at the other's residence per unit time. We re-work his resulting ''interaction city'' with each resident ''operating with'' a Cobb-Douglas utility function. Similar but somewhat ''richer'' outcomes occur. We also investigate a new case with intermediate dispersion of face-to-face activity, one with scale economies in trip-making.

Keywords: Household spatial interactions; Dispersed residential activity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R14 D11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-geo, nep-soc, nep-upt and nep-ure
Date: 2006-11-09
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