Urban Economic Theory: Land Use and City Size

by Masahisa Fujita

Book Overview

This book examines the economic reasons why people choose to live where they live and develops, through analysis of the bid rent function, a unified theory of urban land use and city size. The first part of the book explicates the basic theory of urban land use and optimal city size. Residential location behavior of households is examined in a microeconomic framework and equilibrium and optimal patterns of residential land use are discussed. The corresponding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052139645X
• ISBN13: 9780521396455
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"