A spatial network explanation for a hierarchy of urban power laws
Statistical Mechanics
2007-05-23 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Abstract
The presented model provides an explanation to several empirically observed phenomena in spatial economics. By representing the system as a complex network of fixed-size land areas connected by trade between harbored activities, city size and land value distributions are obtained as higher-order patterns. The model predicts the empirically observed spatial distribution of land value density as well as that of urban cluster prices. To connect land value to population, which is a commonly observed quantity, we also demonstrate that there is, for urban clusters, a linear relation between accumulated land value and population.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0306439,
title = {A spatial network explanation for a hierarchy of urban power laws},
author = {Claes Andersson and Alexander Hellervik and Kristian Lindgren},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0306439},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, 6 figures. Submitted to PRL