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Malthus living in a slum : urban concentration, infrastructures and economic growth
Castells-Quintana, David - 2014 - (Preliminary version)
Today more than half of the 7 billion inhabitants of the planet live in urban areas, with this share expected to keep rising. Whereas in developed countries urbanisation has been a long and slow process, in developing countries this process is now characterised by a really fast pace and a high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490043
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History and urban primacy : the effect of the Spanish reconquista on Muslim cities
Cuberes, David; González-Val, Rafael - 2013 - This version: February 2013
This paper aims to study the effect of a major historical event on the Spanish city size distribution, the Spanish Reconquista. This was a long military campaign that aimed to expel Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula. The process started in the early 1200s and ended around 1500, when the entire...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011685117
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"Urbanization and decentralization : the changing urban-rural linkages and opportunities of decentralization of services" : paper for 54th European regional Science Association Con...
Braun, Joachim von - 2014
"Urbanization and Decentralization: The changing urban-rural linkages and opportunities of decentralization of services … urbanization and decentralization. Ever stronger linkages between urban and rural areas represent a challenge for sustainable … reviews the evidence of synergies and pitfalls between urbanization and decentralization with concepts of economic geography …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011492002
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Agglomeration with the pros and cons of labor heterogeneity
Ihara, Ryusuke - 2011
large. These results explain: the progress of urbanization with the decrease in commuting costs; the difference in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011545457
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What makes cities bigger and richer? : new evidence from 1990 - 2000 in the US
González-Val, Rafael - 2011
This paper analyses the determinants of growth of American cities, understood as growth of the population or of per capita income, from 1990 to 2000. This empirical analysis uses data from all cities with more than 25,000 inhabitants in the year 2000 (1154 cities). The results show that while a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548599
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Growth agglomeration effects in spatially interdependent Latin American regions
Guevara, Carolina - 2015
of the evidence of a rapid pace of urbanization process. Using a database with information of 162 regions of 8 Latin … estimate the effect of agglomeration on regional growth in three periods. The measures of agglomeration are urbanization rate … effect of urbanization changes was 5700 dollars of per capita income. Low-developed regions experience larger positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480257
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The productive city needs both : localization and urbanization economies across spatial scales in the city
Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P.; Lundblad, Joakim - 2015 - This version 2015-01-16
This paper revisits a classical inquiry by addressing the question of localization and urbanization economies. We … level within cities, urbanization grow stronger at larger spatial scales. These results provide some support for that … urbanization economies and localization economies not only co-exist but also co-depend. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011482330
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"Megacities and countries : urbanization and real convergence"
Barreiro-Pereira, Fernando - 2014
A new urban revolution begun in the second half of the XX century and it is going to challenge the relation between the size and economic role of cities: on one side, the last decades have witnessed the emergence and the never seen growth of a number of Mega-cities, with more than 9 million...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011487041
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Technical and economic feasibility of the use of airships within two Portuguese market niches : the tourism and the urban logistic case studies
Santos, Rafael; Silva, Jorge - 2012
All over the world there are several countries where airships are being used for military and civilian purposes. The rebirth of this mean of transportation, capable of easily overcoming some deficiencies of the conventional ones, brings medium and long term economic benefits. In addition, they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509240
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Patterns in US urban growth (1790-2000)
González-Val, Rafael; Lanaspa-Santolaria, Luis Fernando - 2013
This paper reconsiders the evolution of the growth of American cities since 1790 in light of new theories of urban growth. Our null hypothesis for long-term growth is random growth. We obtain evidence supporting random growth against the alternative of mean reversion (convergence) in city sizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581479