The sizes and types of cities.¶
Henderson, J. V. (1974). The sizes and types of cities. American Economic Review, 64(4), 640-656.
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- Diseconomies of Scale
- Urban systems: congestion, infrastructure strain, pollution, and administrative overhead can rise faster than the agglomeration benefits of further city growth, producing a scale past which marginal residents make the average resident worse off.
This sourceFoundational urban-economics model of optimal city size in which agglomeration benefits are eventually overtaken by congestion and crowding costs, producing a scale past which the marginal resident lowers average welfare — the urban instance of the diseconomy.
- Urban systems: congestion, infrastructure strain, pollution, and administrative overhead can rise faster than the agglomeration benefits of further city growth, producing a scale past which marginal residents make the average resident worse off.
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