Our purpose is to investigate how the interplay between trade, commuting and communication costs shapes the economy at both the interregional and intra-urban levels. Specifically, we study how economic integration affects the internal structure of cities and show how decentralizing the...

In this paper, an urban economic model of residential location is combined with multifractal geometry (Sierpinski carpet) in order to model and analyse the spatial structure of a metropolitan area. This area is made of an urban system organised hierarchically around a central CBD, as well as of...

In this paper, an urban economic model of residential location is combined with multifractal geometry (Sierpinski carpet) in order to model and analyse the spatial structure of a metropolitan area. This area is made of an urban system organised hierarchically around a central CBD, as well as of...

L'évaluation économique du prix des paysages périurbains utilise des analyses géographiques (occupation des sols, composition paysagère, distance à des biens paysagers, paysages vus : champ de vision, objets, formes). L'article fait le point sur la littérature en matière de méthode et...