The Services Sector and Urban Spatial Structure
Equilibrium versus Catastrophe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5072233 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Xiao-Ping Zheng (Institute of Socio-Economic Planning, The University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan), Xiaoping Zheng (0000-0003-2538-2415, University of Tsukuba, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 1169-1182 |
| Publication date | 1990-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/a221169 |
| OpenAlex | W1996270769 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
In this paper a general equilibrium model of an intraurban system is presented in which the services sector is explicitly introduced. By restricting the location of the services sector to the city center, three possible land-use patterns are derived from the model: centralized, decentralized, and integrated. By applying the new technique of catastrophe theory into this new urban economic framework, it is shown that the spatial structure which will dominate the intraurban space will depend on the values of two parameters, representing the income level and the unit cost of transporting the central services. When these parameters take certain critical values the urban system may undergo catastrophic structural transitions from equilibrium to disequilibrium or the reverse
Catastrophe theory · Disequilibrium · Economic geography · Economics · General equilibrium theory · Location theory · Microeconomics · Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis · Computer Science · Economic theories and models · Engineering · Mathematics · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |