Alonso and the Scaling of Urban Profiles

Delloye, Justin; Lemoy, Rémi; Caruso, Geoffrey

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“…This approach is compatible with traditional urban economic theory such as the Von Thünen (1875) and Alonso-Mills-Muth models (Alonso;1964;Mills;1972;Muth;1969), which despite their simplifications have the merit of stressing the importance of central accessibility costs on locational decisions. The rescaling methodology used for this study has been found to be compatible with the Alonso model (Delloye et al;2018) corrected for land use. One of the fundamental determinants of the urban desnity of a city is the distance to the CBD and the trade-off that occurs between price of land and cost of commuting/accessing the city center 1987).…”

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Change in Artificial Land Use over time across European Cities: A rescaled radial perspective

Kilgarriff,

Lemoy,

Caruso

2020

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Seen from a satellite, observing land use in the daytime or at night, most cities have circular shapes, organised around a city centre. A radial analysis of artificial land use growth is conducted in order to understand what the recent changes in urbanisation are across Europe and how it relates to city size. We focus on the most fundamental differentiation regarding urban land use: has it been artificialised for human uses (residence or roads for instance) or is it natural, or at least undeveloped? Using spatially detailed data from the EU Copernicus Urban Atlas, profiles of artificial land use (ALU) are calculated and compared between two years, 2006 and 2012. Based on the homothety of urban forms found by Lemoy and Caruso (2018), a simple scaling law is used to compare the internal structure of cities after controlling for population size. We firstly show that when using the FUA definition of cities, a kind of Gibrat's law for land use appears to hold. However, when we examine cities internally, this is no longer clear as there are differences on average between city size categories. We also look at further city groupings using regions and topography to show that artificial land use growth across European cities is not homogeneous. Our findings have important implications relative to the sustainability of cities as this evidence is pointing towards increasing urban sprawl and stagnant growth in urban centres across cities of all sizes. It also has theoretical implications on the nature of sprawl and its scaling with city size.

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Change in Artificial Land Use over time across European Cities: A rescaled radial perspective

Kilgarriff,

Lemoy,

Caruso

2020

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“…This approach is compatible with traditional urban economic theory such as the Von Thünen (1875) and Alonso-Mills-Muth models (Alonso, 1964;Mills, 1972;Muth, 1969), which despite their simplifications have the merit of stressing the importance of central accessibility costs on locational decisions. The rescaling methodology used for this study has been found to be compatible with the Alonso model (Delloye et al, 2018) corrected for land use. One of the fundamental determinants of the urban density of a city is the distance to the CBD and the trade-off that occurs between price of land and cost of commuting/ accessing the city centre (Brueckner, 1987).…”

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Gibrat’s law and the change in artificial land use within and between European cities

Kilgarriff¹

2021

Handbook on Entropy, Complexity and Spatial Dynamics

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Alonso and the Scaling of Urban Profiles

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Change in Artificial Land Use over time across European Cities: A rescaled radial perspective

Change in Artificial Land Use over time across European Cities: A rescaled radial perspective

Gibrat’s law and the change in artificial land use within and between European cities

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