The Agglomeration Process in Urban Growth

Bergsman, Joel; Greenston, Peter M.; Healy, Robert G.

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“…A number of studies of clustering trends among multiple industries were undertaken in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s (e.g., Streit 1969;Richter 1969;Bergsman et al 1972Bergsman et al , 1975Campbell 1972Campbell , 1974Czamanski 1974Czamanski , 1976Latham 1976;O Â hUallacha Âin 1984O Â hUallacha Âin , 1985. As we noted above, there is also a large literature that examines methods for analyzing economic association as revealed in input-output tables, both for the purposes of de®ning proper industrial aggregations or classi®cation schemes (e.g., Kymn 1990; Cabrer and Contreras 1991;Oksanen and Williams 1992;O Â hUallacha Âin 1985) and for understanding the structure of economies (e.g., Olli 1992;Ghosh and Roy 1998;Gregory and Schachter 1999).…”

Section: Identifying Economic Clustersmentioning

confidence: 99%

A test for the coincident economic and spatial clustering of business enterprises

Feser¹,

Sweeney

2000

J Geograph Syst

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This paper uses input-output data combined with point process modeling techniques to test whether enterprises linked within nominal buyersupplier chains have a greater propensity to cluster in space than manufacturing enterprises in general. The methodology controls for the general tendency of ®rms to seek locations in concentrated agglomerations and isolates the in¯uence of ®rm interdependence on spatial clustering. Our ®ndings suggest that there is indeed an association between economic linkages and geographic clustering in our study area, but only for some types of economic clusters, mainly those that are comprised mainly of more knowledge-based or technology-intensive sectors. In general, we endeavor to show that spatial analytical methods hold considerable promise for conducting rigorous tests of industrial location questions.

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Section: Identifying Economic Clustersmentioning

confidence: 99%

A test for the coincident economic and spatial clustering of business enterprises

Feser¹,

Sweeney

2000

J Geograph Syst

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“…This trend has usually promoted a significant concentration of manufacturing, both marketoriented and often also basic materials processing in the metropolitan region, because of its function as a transshipment node (Pred, 1966 ;Jefferson, 1939) . It has been noted, in connection with this trend, that long-term expansion of metropolitan per capita GNP in the early phases will most likely induce additional in-migration, infrastructural investment, and major changes in the intrametropolitan structure (Clark, 1967 ;Lave, 1970 ;Webber, 1979;Bergsman et al, 1972) . In developing nations, this process may last longer and can cross various metropolitan size thresholds before conditions more typical of the middle phases are reached .…”

Section: Size Distribution Of Cities and Metropolitan Changementioning

confidence: 96%

Metropolitan Evolution, Sectoral Economic Change, and the City Size Distribution

Suarez–Villa

1988

Urban Studies

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Metropolitan evolution is conceptualised from a broad, long term perspective that focuses on demographic and sectoral economic variables. ]Emphasis is placed on understanding these changes from a process-oriented approach that considers its general relevance rather than its outcomes or microanalytic details. A selective review of the literature provides a significant perspective and background on the stages model that is applied to the study of metropolitan change . This is then related to the Pareto city size distribution by considering the interurban population distribution coefficient and its expected performance over the various phases of metropolitan evolution . A hypothetical interurban manufacturing employment distribution coefficient, analogous to the Pareto population coefficient, is also considered and is related to the process of metropolitan and interurban sectoral economic change . The relationship between metropolitan change and national urban size distribution is viewed as a significant component of the emerging hierarchy of global metropolitan cities in both advanced and developing nations .

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“…The effect can in part be thought of as a generalized expression of the multiple agglomeration economies that make their way into regional and urban economies as total production and the number of individual producers increase. Economies of this kind which are external to the firm are known as external economies of scale, and they have been described at considerable length by such urban and regional analysts as Bergsman et al (1972Bergsman et al ( , 1975, Czamanski and Ablas (1979), Hoover and Vernon (1959), Lie'htenburg (1960), Marcus (1965), Mera (1970), Struyk (1972aStruyk ( , 1972b, Townroe (1970), and Townroe and Roberts (1980)). …”

Section: Location Linkage Structure and Agglomeration Processesmentioning

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Location and linkage systems: A survey and reassessment

Scott

1983

Ann Reg Sci

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The paper constitutes a survey and reassessment of the literature on location and linkages. The analysis begins with a brief review of published work on the formal character of complexes of economic activity. The issue of agglomeration economies and linkage structure is then discussed and its relation to urbanization phenomena examined. From here, the account moves into a detailed investigation of the role of transport costs in the determination of linkage patterns. An attempt is made to systematize the evidenee from a large number of applied studies on the various effects of the clustering and dispersal of productive activities on linkage structure. Various empirical analyses of the organization of production units and its effect on linkages are reviewed. A composite theory is then proposed on the basis of an account of the common dependence of both location and linkage on broad production system dynamics. The paper concludes with a brief glimpse at the possibilities of extending the theoretical apparatus developed here by integrating it with work that is currently going forward on the form and evolution of local labor markets.

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The Agglomeration Process in Urban Growth

Cited by 52 publications

References 6 publications

A test for the coincident economic and spatial clustering of business enterprises

A test for the coincident economic and spatial clustering of business enterprises

Metropolitan Evolution, Sectoral Economic Change, and the City Size Distribution

Location and linkage systems: A survey and reassessment

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