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SOE: Fachverband Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme

SOE 21: Traffic Dynamics, Urban and Regional Systems (joint session SOE/DY)

SOE 21.4: Talk

Thursday, March 15, 2018, 15:45–16:00, MA 001

The Urban form, quantifying population spatial distribution in cities — •Valerio Volpati and Marc Barthelemy — IPhT, Universite' Paris Saclay, France

In Urban Economics, the different forces playing a role in the development of a city have been described, leading to idealized models of cities such as the von Thunen monocentric model. In real data, the spatial distribution of activities inside cities is often more complicated and non monocentric. Here we study the population spatial distribution inside french cities, and we introduce measures to quantify how much each city is monocentric, polycentric or homogenous. We classify cities according to such measures and discuss how we can revisit classical models of Urban Economics in light of the empirical analysis.