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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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 (J Econ Geo, 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)
JEL-codes: R13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-06-25
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