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The Handbook of Urban Studies provides the first comprehensive, up-to-date account of the urban condition, relevant to a wide readership from academics to researchers and policymakers. It provides a theoretically and empirically informed account embracing all the different disciplines contributing to urban studies. Leading authors identify key issues and questions and future trends for further research and present their findings so that, where appropriate, they are relevant to the needs of policymakers. Using the city as a unifying structure, the Handbook provides an holistic appreciation of urban structure and change, and of the theories by which we understand the structure, development and changing character
Urban Scale Economies
Urban Scale Economies
Scale economies are the basis of urban agglomeration - the reason we have cities. The magnitude and nature of scale economies are critical in determining individual city sizes, what cities do, the size distribution of cities, the possibility of multiple equilibria in location patterns, the ...
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