The article surveys varieties of "linear city" models, the first of which was made by H. Hotelling in 1929. Linear city … models typically used for analyzing spatial competition and product differentiation. Our classification for linear city … models is based on related types of oligopolistic competition. The article considers particular linear city models, also the …

In a linear city model of firm location, firms have altruistic objective functions that consist of a linear combination … sufficient weight on maximizing profits, then firms locate at the ends of the linear city, just as in the firm location game … linear city, just as in the candidate voting game. …

We apply a spatial model that includes both circular-city and linear-city models as special cases to the analysis of …-city to that of the linear-city and that the linear-city result is more likely in our setting as the equilibrium location. …