Optimal City Hierarchy: A Dynamic Programming Approach to Central Place Theory
Central place theory is a key building block of economic geography and an empirically plausible description of city systems. This paper provides a rationale for central place theory via a dynamic programming formulation of the social planner's problem of city hierarchy. We show that there must...
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Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
2013
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| Online Access: | https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1533 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2532/viewcontent/city_optimal_072612_no_app.pdf |
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