Reference : Alonso and the Scaling of Urban Profiles

	Document type :	Scientific journals : Article
	Discipline(s) :	Social & behavioral sciences, psychology : Human geography & demography Business & economic sciences : Special economic topics (health, labor, transportation…)
	Focus Areas :	Sustainable Development
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/38789

Title :	Alonso and the Scaling of Urban Profiles
Language :	English
Author, co-author :	Delloye, Justin [Université Catholique de Louvain - UCL > > > ; Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research - LISER]
	Lemoy, Rémi [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Identités, Politiques, Sociétés, Espaces (IPSE) > ; Université de Rouen > UMR Idées]
	Caruso, Geoffrey [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Identités, Politiques, Sociétés, Espaces (IPSE) >]
Publication date :	6-Feb-2019
Journal title :	Geographical Analysis
Publisher :	Wiley-Blackwell
Peer reviewed :	Yes (verified by ORBilu)
Audience :	International
ISSN :	0016-7363
e-ISSN :	1538-4632
Country :	United States
Abstract :	[en] How urban characteristics change with total population, their scaling behavior, has become an important research field since one needs to better understand the challenges of urban densification. Yet urban scaling research is largely disconnected from intra-urban structure, and this seriously limits its operationalization. In contrast, the monocentric model of Alonso provides a residential choice-based theory to urban density profiles. However, dedicated comparative static analyses do not completely solve how the model scales with population. This article bridges this gap by simultaneously introducing power laws for land, income and transport cost in the Alonso model. We show that the equilibrium urban structure of this augmented model matches recent empirical findings about the scaling of European population density profiles and satisfactorily represents European cities. This result is however not compatible with the observed scaling power of housing land profiles, and challenges current empirical understanding of wage and transport cost elasticities with population. Our results call for revisiting theories about land development and housing processes as well as the empirics of agglomeration benefits and transport costs.
Funders :	Fonds National de la Recherche - FnR
Name of the research project :	ALONSO-EU ans SOSBBUGS
Target :	Researchers
Permalink :	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/38789
DOI :	10.1111/gean.12191
FnR project :	FnR ; FNR9143220 > Rémi Maurice Lemoy > > Systematic land use calibration of Alonso-based urban models on European cities > 01/09/2015 > 31/08/2017 > 2014

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