How and where satellite cities form around a large city: Bifurcation mechanism of a long narrow economy

Kiyohiro Ikeda (), Hiroki Aizawa () and José Gaspar
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Kiyohiro Ikeda: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,Tohoku University
Hiroki Aizawa: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tohoku University

No 1, Working Papers de Economia (Economics Working Papers) from Católica Porto Business School, Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Abstract: We investigate economic agglomerations in a long narrow economy,in which discrete locations are evenly spread over a line segment. The bifurcation mechanism of a monocentric city at the center is analyzed analytically to show how and where satellite cities form. This is an important step to elucidate the mechanism of the competition between a large central city and satellite cities, which is taking place worldwide. By the analysis of the Forslid & Ottaviano (JEconGeo,2003) model, we show that the larger the agglomeration forces,the farther from the monocentric city satellite cities emerge. As the trade freeness increases from a low value, there occurs a spatial period doubling in which every other city grows. Thereafter a central city with two satellite cities appears, en route to a complete agglomeration to the central city.

Keywords: Bifurcation; economic geography; replicator dynamics; satellite cities; spatial period doubling. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 52 pages
Date: 2021-01
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