Historical trends of agglomeration to the capital region and new economic geography

The Footloose Entrepreneur model with a finite number of equidistant regions

“…Ago et al, 2006) or hexagonal distributions as in Ikeda et al (2014). Tabuchi (2014), developed a multi-regional model based on Fujita et al (1999) with exogenous asymmetries both in trade costs and in the distribution of the immobile workers and found that it is able to predict the historical tendency for agglomeration in the capital regions. The paper focused on extreme values of transportation costs (autarky and almost-free trade).…”

“…Ikeda, Murota, Akamatsu, and Takayama (2017b) found conditions for the emergence of “megalopolis”, as well as racetrack configurations and long‐narrow economy configurations, depending on the level of transport costs. Tabuchi (2014) developed a multi‐regional model for a family of Dixit‐Stiglitz type NEG models with exogenous asymmetries both in trade costs and in the distribution of immobile workers and found that it is able to predict the historical tendency for agglomeration in the capital regions. He focused on full agglomeration and on extreme values of transportation costs (autarky and almost‐free trade).…”

Urban population agglomeration in view of complex ecological niche: A case study on Chinese prefecture cities

“…In both global mega-cities and small local cities urban population growth is coupled to urban development (Fujishima, 2013;Tabuchi, 2014). Population is both the labor force for industry and the consumer of the resources that a city needs, such as food, water, coal, wood, oil and building materials.…”

Beyond urban form: How Masahisa Fujita shapes us

“…Just having many regions is still not enough. In particular, there is no distinction between global and local scales if transport cost between any pair of locations is the same, as in Tabuchi et al (2005) and Tabuchi (2014).…”