This paper develops a quantitative model of city structure to separate agglomeration forces, dispersion forces and fundamentals as determinants of location choices. The model remains tractable and amenable to empirical analysis because of stochastic shocks to worker productivity, which yield a...

Urban land use and transportation policies have dramatic effects on the density and spatial distribution of residences in large cities. Effects of these policies have been analyzed using numerical urban simulation models. At the same time, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's Residential...

This paper proposes a new approach to city formation by modifying conventional network games to suit particularly the study of spatial configurations and urban structures. While we postulate uncompensated knowledge spillovers as the main driving force of population agglomeration, we depart from...