That urbanisation in many developing countries, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, is not
delivering the kind of benefits that might be expected in the light of experience elsewhere in …

Critically assessing and integrating the existing literature on static agglomeration
economies, this paper overcomes the agglomeration‐growth shortcut actually present in the …

The factors that account for the differences in the economic productivity of urban areas have
remained difficult to measure and identify unambiguously. Here we show that a microscopic …

The aim of the paper is to present a critical view of theoretical works on city size. We begin
with the consideration that, during the 1960s and 1970s, the question of optimal city size …

AMH see Alonso-Mills-Henderson type model absentee landowners 300 absolute stock of
migrants 398-9 accessibility principle 5 accountability 775'active'cities 294-302 adaptation to …

Urban development patterns in both industrial and developing countries with market-
oriented economies show strong regularities consistent with basic urban location theory …

This chapter reviews the literature dealing with systems of cities and the patterns of
development within such systems. It starts with the longstanding question of the distribution …