Fujita, Masahisa; Mori, Tomoya - In: Portuguese Economic Journal 4 (2005) 2, pp. 129-156
impacts of transport costs on the spatial patterns of economic agglomeration. We first identify prototypes from the existing … models, and explain the mechanism of how transport costs influence the balance between economic forces of agglomeration and … dispersion. We then investigate the transformation of the agglomeration/dispersion patterns given gradually decreasing transport …