Microeconomic Modeling in Urban Science

Microeconomic Modeling in Urban Science presents a novel, interdisciplinary framework for the analysis of urban systems, reconceived from microeconomic foundations as the complex interaction of individuals in a discrete context. The work considers a) The microscopic interaction between citizens, and between citizens and firms, (b) The mesoscopic agglomeration of firms and segregation of agents’ socioeconomic clusters, (c) The emergence of city-level scale laws observed when analyzing a system of cities, and (d) The optimal planning of cities. In addition, the market equilibrium computation properties, regarding existence, uniqueness and algorithms convergence are discussed.

Presents a unified, coherent and realistic framework able to simulate complete urban systems Describes the use of discrete–choice and stochastic behavior models in the auction spatial-equilibrium marketProvides a unified model relevant to all levels of analysis: micro-, meso- and macro-scale interactionsIncludes computing outputs from Cube-Land modeling using GIS

1. Introduction 2. Accessibility 3. Theory of a discrete urban land market 4. A stochastic model of urban systems 5. Equilibrium analysis 6. Dynamic of urban land use 7. Applications and policy analysis 8. City scale laws