Exploring the Urban Model : Employment, Housing, and Infrastructure

The paper explores the properties of a modern urban model in which households’ and firms’ locations in the city are endogenously determined as functions of technology, preferences, and geography. This class of model provides insights into the facto...

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Main Authors: Sturm, Daniel M., Takeda, Kohei, Venables, Anthony J.
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2022
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/665171643053889142/Exploring-the-Urban-Model-Employment-Housing-and-Infrastructure
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spelling okr-10986-368802022-01-28T05:10:38Z Exploring the Urban Model : Employment, Housing, and Infrastructure Sturm, Daniel M. Takeda, Kohei Venables, Anthony J. EMPLOYMENT URBAN DEVELOPMENT TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE QUANTITATIVE SPATIAL MODEL AGGLOMERATION The paper explores the properties of a modern urban model in which households’ and firms’ locations in the city are endogenously determined as functions of technology, preferences, and geography. This class of model provides insights into the factors that determine the shape and growth of cities. The paper increases understanding by studying the comparative static properties of the model, the effects of various policy interventions, and the circumstances under which different possible city types (mono- versus poly-centric) arise. It is a step to tailoring model structure to adequately describe real world cities of different sizes and types. 2022-01-27T13:56:26Z 2022-01-27T13:56:26Z 2022-01 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/665171643053889142/Exploring-the-Urban-Model-Employment-Housing-and-Infrastructure http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36880 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9910 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
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topic EMPLOYMENT
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE
QUANTITATIVE SPATIAL MODEL
AGGLOMERATION
spellingShingle EMPLOYMENT
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE
QUANTITATIVE SPATIAL MODEL
AGGLOMERATION
Sturm, Daniel M.
Takeda, Kohei
Venables, Anthony J.
Exploring the Urban Model : Employment, Housing, and Infrastructure
relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9910
description The paper explores the properties of a modern urban model in which households’ and firms’ locations in the city are endogenously determined as functions of technology, preferences, and geography. This class of model provides insights into the factors that determine the shape and growth of cities. The paper increases understanding by studying the comparative static properties of the model, the effects of various policy interventions, and the circumstances under which different possible city types (mono- versus poly-centric) arise. It is a step to tailoring model structure to adequately describe real world cities of different sizes and types.
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author Sturm, Daniel M.
Takeda, Kohei
Venables, Anthony J.
author_facet Sturm, Daniel M.
Takeda, Kohei
Venables, Anthony J.
author_sort Sturm, Daniel M.
title Exploring the Urban Model : Employment, Housing, and Infrastructure
title_short Exploring the Urban Model : Employment, Housing, and Infrastructure
title_full Exploring the Urban Model : Employment, Housing, and Infrastructure
title_fullStr Exploring the Urban Model : Employment, Housing, and Infrastructure
title_full_unstemmed Exploring the Urban Model : Employment, Housing, and Infrastructure
title_sort exploring the urban model : employment, housing, and infrastructure
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2022
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/665171643053889142/Exploring-the-Urban-Model-Employment-Housing-and-Infrastructure
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