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Medda, Francesca.
Nijkamp, Peter.
Rietveld, Piet.
Urban Land Use for Transport Systems and City Shapes
Geographical Analysis - Volume 35, Number 1, January 2003, pp. 46-57

The Ohio State University Press

Francesca Medda is a tutorial fellow in the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics. E-mail: f.medda@lse.ac.uk. Peter Nijkamp is a professor in Regional, Urban and Environmental Economics and Economic Geography, Faculty of Economics, Free University, Amsterdam. E-mail: pnijkamp@feweb.vu.nl. Piet Rietveld is a professor in Transport Economics, Faculty of Economics, Free University, Amsterdam. E-mail: prietveld@feweb.vu.nl. Geographical Analysis, Vol. 35, No. 1 (January 2003) The Ohio State University Submitted: November 19, 2001. Revised version accepted: June 27, 2002. Francesca Medda, Peter Nijkamp, and Piet Rietveld Urban Land Use For Transport Systems and City Shapes Urban land use is contingent upon the transportation system which is in turn dependent on business development in the city. The urban economics literature influenced by the Solow-Vickrey model has extensively studied the above relationship. In the present paper we re-examine the Solow-Vickrey model of the long narrow city by defining a new general mathematical formulation in which the urban shape is a function of the allocation of land for transport. We focus in particular on emergence conditions for different types of polycentric cities. The methodology discussed in the paper provides a new analytical framework for assessing the impact of urban transport flows on city growth. INTRODUCTION Structural and qualitative transformations in cities are often due to extensions ...