LA CROISSANCE URBAINE: DÉTERMINISMES VS BRUIT

Gilles Duranton

Region et Developpement, 2012, vol. 36, 11-30

Abstract: This paper carries out a comparative analysis of two series of urban growth models : the determinist models and the random urban growth models. The first ones consider that innovation and R&D activities explain the coexistence between diversified and specialized cities. The latter play a role of 'nursery cities' by facilitating experimentation for new productive combinations (Duranton and Puga, 2001). Classical urban growth models do not generate the rank-size rule for cities), whereas random growth models are much more adequate in order to explain this stylized fact. This paper also examines the theoretical foundations of both series of models.

Keywords: URBAN GROWTH; CITIES; RANK-SIZE DISTRIBUTION (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J11 J61 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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