About the Origin of Cities

André de Palma () and Yorgos Papageorgiou
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Yorgos Papageorgiou: McMaster University [Hamilton, Ontario]

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Abstract: We provide a bare–bones account concerning the circumstances that led to the emergence of the first permanent human settements, the spatial arrangement of such emerging settlement patterns on a linear world, and how the macro–morphology of those patterns reflected spatial interaction attributes of their inhabitants.

Keywords: emergence of spatial order; cities; non-linear systems; Agglomeration economies; spatial stability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-12-23
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