Agglomeration Economies Versus Urban Diseconomies: The Case of the Greater Metropolitan Area (GMA) of Costa Rica

Abstract

Advances in Spatial Planning 288 based on comprehensive, innovative, technical solutions. The last section presents the most significant conclusions, including their implications for design and regulation of urban planning, in the case studied, and others with similar characteristics. Agglomeration economies versus urban diseconomiesFrom an economic point of view, Roberto Camagni (2005), reassessing the principles that govern the city, has done a spatial analysis and, in theoretical terms, has reinvented the study of the economics, from an urban perspective. To this effect, and from the premises of Marshall (static efficiency), Schumpeter (dynamic efficiency), and Marx (the conundrum of power), he introduces five basic principles to understand the city and the urban policy design: i. Agglomeration (or synergies), corresponding to the basic question of why the city exists; ii. Accessibility (or spatial competition) linked to the question of where productive and domestic activities should be located; iii. Spatial Interaction (or the need for mobility and contact); iv. Hierarchy (or city order); and, v. Competitiveness (or export as an economic driver).

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