Journal article
Heterogeneity in states and urban structure
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to relax the standard assumption of static urban economic theory concerning perfect homogeneity in tastes of individuals belonging to the same class. We study the impact of heterogeneity in tastes on urban structure using the simplest meaningful clone of the standard model: all arguments are presented in the context of a metropolitan area which is partitioned in two homogeneous zones, centre and suburd. Given that …
Authors
De Palma A; Papageorgiou YY
Journal
Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 37–56
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
February 1988
DOI
10.1016/0166-0462(88)90004-x
ISSN
0166-0462