Spatial configuration in a periurban city. A cellular automata-based microeconomic model

Geoffrey Caruso, Dominique Peeters, Jean Cavailhès and Mark Rounsevell
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Jean Cavailhès: CESAER - Centre d'Economie et de Sociologie Rurales Appliquées à l'Agriculture et aux Espaces Ruraux - ENESAD - Etablissement National d'Enseignement Supérieur Agronomique de Dijon - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
Mark Rounsevell: Department of Geography - UCL - Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain

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Abstract: This paper presents a microeconomic model of residential location that explores the emergence of a mixed belt where residents and farmers coexist beyond a city. The model is based on integrating urban economics with cellular automata in order to simulate equilibrium patterns in 2D and through time. Households commute to a CBD and enjoy neighbourhood externalities that are a function of both local residential density and farmland, or open space. They bid on the competitive land market and locate so as to maximize utility. Incremental population growth changes the neighbourhood and leads to rent adaptations. With appropriate parameter values a mixed belt may emerge between the urban and agricultural specialized areas. Settlements within this mixed area are more or less clustered or scattered depending on preferences and neighbourhood size.

Keywords: URBAN SPRAWL; OPEN SPACE; NEIGHBOURHOOD EXTERNALITIES; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; RESIDENTIAL DYNAMICS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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Published in Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2007, 37 (5), pp.542-567. ⟨10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2007.01.005⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2007.01.005

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