This paper presents a version of the monocentric city model that incorporates
heterogeneous commuting speeds by introducing radial commuting highways. This model …

Much received urban theory remains beset by a particular image of urbanization, the
concentrated core-oriented metropolis that emerged to solve the problem of slow and …

Between 1950 and 1990, the aggregate population of central cities in the United States
declined by 17 percent despite population growth of 72 percent in metropolitan areas as a …

Large-scale suburbanization of employment has dramatically changed transportation and
land use planning. Intersuburban commuting now dominates regional highway networks …

The monocentric urban model highlights the important link between transportation access
and urban form. Yet as metropolitan areas have become increasingly multicentric, the …

A model of a monocentric city with traffic congestion is specified and calibrated to
metropolitan Chicago for 1956. The computations suggest that the market allocation of …

Each new radial highway serving large US metropolitan areas decentralized 14% to 16% of
central city working residents and 4% to 6% of jobs in the 1960–2000 period. Model …

Suburbanization in the United States between 1910 and 1970 was concurrent with the
diffusion of the automobile. A circular city model is developed in order to access …

Using a transportation system with a dense network of circular streets, this paper provides
complete solutions to two urban models with a discrete suburban employment center as well …

The distinction between a metropolitan area with multiple subcenters (or a polycentric urban
structure) and one with much more dispersed suburban employment has important policy …