 On the emergence of the urban phenomenon Part IISur l'émergence du phénomène urbain. Partie IIWorking Papers from HAL Abstract: In this paper, we extend the basic model describing the formation of urban agglomerations in a pre-industrial setting. As we will show, this setting is flexible enough to allow for the investigation of multiple aspects of the spatial economy. After summarizing the basic model and the numerical examples we will refer to, we successively examine the issues of coordination failure in the emergence of the urban phenomenon, the presence of transactions costs and the possibility of diffusion of manufactured good production through the system of agglomerations. This last aspect will be treated in two different ways : that of increasing agricultural productivity and that of increasing technological efficiency. As we will argue, both mechanisms can lead to the formation of an urban system. Keywords: Social system; Sociology; Rural and urban Sociology; City; Pre-industrial society; Economic Exchange; Economic sociology; Model; Statistics; Système social; Theory; Urban Sociology; Sociologie économique; Sociologie urbaine; Sociologie; Sociologie rurale et urbaine; Echange économique; Modèle; Société pré-industrielle; Statistique; Théorie; Ville (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in [Research Report] Laboratoire d'analyse et de techniques économiques(LATEC). 2001, 34 p., Illustration, ref. bib. : 29 ref Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-01526488 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers from HAL |
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