An overview of urban growth: recent contributions by economics to the question

Authors

  • Francisco González Gómez

Keywords:

Economía urbana, Crecimiento de ciudades, Externalidades, Concentración

Abstract

The paper attempts a present day appraisal of the urban economic question so that it might then explain
the tendency for population and economic activity to crowd into major urban centres.To explain such drives
towards agglomeration along with the slowing down of the spread of the great cities, a synthesis is here
essayed of established and novel theory, the effects of both market pressure and local government in its
multiple manifestations being ever borne in mind the while.With the same end in view, a summary is given
of empirical research into the question undertaken over the last decade, attention being here drawn to a
tendency to understand the phenomenon of agglomeration in terms of the effects of external dynamic
economics and available workforce resources available in the cities at a given time under study.
The reviewing of the issue and research on the same is held to lead to the conclusion that there is still a long
way to go before an explicative model could be offered for urban growth and a need is seen to complement
that undertaken to date with material drawn from other disciplines such as History and Sociology. In the
same vein, it is here thought advisable that studies should be made as to the characteristics of the urban
growth of any given centre that these might be offered to local government as this would be of great assistance
to this when it came to taking measures provoked by the phenomenon.

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Published

2003-03-21

How to Cite

González Gómez, F. (2003). An overview of urban growth: recent contributions by economics to the question. Ciudad Y Territorio Estudios Territoriales, 35(135), 37–52. Retrieved from https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/CyTET/article/view/75309

Issue

Vol. XXXV, núm. 135 (2003)

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Articles

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Copyright (c) 2003 Francisco González Gómez

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