2003/06/17 by Claes Andersson, Andersson, Claes, Alexander Hellervik +3
Business, Management and Accounting · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Physics and Astronomy · #Digital Platforms and Economics #Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn) #Economic theories and models #FOS: Physical sciences #Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #cond-mat.dis-nn #cond-mat.stat-mech
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0306439
4 pages, 6 figures. Submitted to PRL
openalex publication_date 2003/06/17 · arxiv created 2003/10/27 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The presented model provides an explanation to several empirically observed phenomena in spatial economics. By representing the system as a complex network of fixed-size land areas connected by trade between harbored activities, city size and land value distributions are obtained as higher-order patterns. The model predicts the empirically observed spatial distribution of land value density as well as that of urban cluster prices. To connect land value to population, which is a commonly observed quantity, we also demonstrate that there is, for urban clusters, a linear relation between accumulated land value and population.