On the Function of Two Variables of Urban Population Density

Ovidiu Racorean ()

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Abstract: This paper is a pure theoretical attempt to explain tendencies revealed in the last decade urban researches, such as decentralization of population toward the cities suburbs, formation of polycentric cities, by a process of alteration of city traditional monocentricity, in time, due to the growth of population. It is shown that the process of alteration of monocentricity is governed by a function of two variables of urban population density. The function is developed following the observation that urban population density is dependent, in the same time, both on distance-falling with the distance from the city center- and on time-growing with the increase of population size in cities area. The city model based on the function of two variables also predicts other interesting urban phenomena, such as cities ‘’collision’’.

Keywords: urban population density; population growth; monocentric city model; polycentricity; decentralization of population. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2004-12-08
Note: Type of Document - pdf; pages: 15

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