In this paper, the stylised assumption that one single 'optimal' city size exists for all cities - achieved when marginal location costs equal marginal location benefits - is abandoned, as well as the opposite view that each city operates on its own cost and production curves, defining a...

In this paper, the stylized assumption that one single “optimal” city size exists for all cities—achieved when marginal location costs equal marginal location benefits—is abandoned, as well as the opposite view that each city operates on its own cost and production curves, defining a...

Questo articolo affronta il tema della dimensione ottima della città, abbandonando le ipotesi di unicità di una dimensione urbana ottima universalmente valida, e che ciascuna città operi in base a funzioni di costo e beneficio proprie. Viene presentato un nuovo modello per la dimensione...