If Cities are So Great, Why are People Leaving? A Response to Vining and Kontuly

1977 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 1421-1422 ◽  
Author(s):  
T D Tregarthen
Keyword(s):  
Agglomeration Economies ◽  
City Size ◽  
Ceteris Paribus ◽  
Metropolitan Regions ◽  
Large Cities

Recent declines in the populations of some major metropolitan regions may not be inconsistent with the notion of agglomeration economies. An analysis of utility maximizing behavior in the choice of city size suggests that an increase in such economies may be the cause of outmigration from large cities, and that, in any event, increases in incomes across all cities should, ceteris paribus, induce such outmigration.

Increasing Returns to City Size in the Face of an Impending Decline in the Sizes of Large Cities: Which is the Bogus Fact?

1977 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
D R Vining ◽  
T Kontuly
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Population Decline ◽  
Increasing Returns ◽  
City Size ◽  
Metropolitan Regions ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Industrialized Nations ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Usa

A summary of recently published statistics show an actual or imminent population decline in the great metropolitan regions of many, if not all, of the major industrialized nations (Japan, France, Great Britain, Sweden, Norway, Italy, the USA). The only exceptions so far found to this emerging trend are Finland and Hungary.

The Impact of High-Speed Rail on the Spatial Structure of Chinese Urban Agglomerations

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-397
Author(s):  
Chunyang Wang
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
River Delta ◽  
City Size ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Urban Agglomerations ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Spatial Systems ◽  
Economic Concentration ◽  
The Impact

This paper measures the spatial evolution of urban agglomerations to understand be er the impact of high-speed rail (HSR) construction, based on panel data from fi ve major urban agglomerations in China for the period 2004–2015. It is found that there are signi ficant regional diff erences of HSR impacts. The construction of HSR has promoted population and economic diff usion in two advanced urban agglomerations, namely the Yang e River Delta and Pearl River Delta, while promoting population and economic concentration in two relatively less advanced urban agglomerations, e.g. the middle reaches of the Yang e River and Chengdu–Chongqing. In terms of city size, HSR promotes the economic proliferation of large cities and the economic concentration of small and medium-sized cities along its routes. HSR networking has provided a new impetus for restructuring urban spatial systems. Every region should optimize the industrial division with strategic functions of urban agglomeration according to local conditions and accelerate the construction of inter-city intra-regional transport network to maximize the eff ects of high-speed rail across a large regional territory.

Are Chinese Cities Oversized?

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 632-654
Author(s):  
Daidai Shen ◽  
Jean-Claude Thill ◽  
Jiuwen Sun
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Equilibrium Model ◽  
Urban Population ◽  
Urban System ◽  
Agglomeration Economies ◽  
City Size ◽  
Chinese City ◽  
Intermediate Solution ◽  
Optimal City Size ◽  
The Impact

In this article, the socioeconomic determinants on urban population in China are empirically investigated with a theoretical equilibrium model for city size. While much of the research on urban size focuses on the impact of agglomeration economies based on “optimal city size” theory, this model is eschewed in our research due to its theoretical paradox in the real world, and we turn instead toward an intermediate solution proposed by Camagni, Capello, and Caragliu. This equilibrium model is estimated on a sample of 111 prefectural cities in China with multiple regression and artificial neural networks. Empirical results have shown that the model explains the variance in the data very well, and all the determinants have significant impacts on Chinese city sizes. Although sample cities have reached their equilibrium sizes as a whole, there is substantially unbalanced distribution of population within the urban system, with a strong contingent of cities that are either squarely too large or too small.

scholarly journals Local labor market size and qualification mismatch

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 1261-1286
Author(s):  
Francesco Berlingieri
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Agglomeration Economies ◽  
Market Size ◽  
Local Labor Market ◽  
Skill Mismatch ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Urban Wage Premium ◽  
Urbanized Areas ◽  
The One

Abstract This paper investigates the effect of the size of the local labor market on skill mismatch. Using survey data for Germany, I find that workers in large cities are both less likely to be overqualified for their job and to work in a different field than the one for which they trained. Different empirical strategies are employed to account for the potential sorting of talented workers into more urbanized areas. Results on individuals who have never moved away from the place in which they grew up and fixed effects estimates obtaining identification through regional migrants suggest that sorting does not fully explain the existing differences in qualification mismatch across areas. This provides evidence of the existence of agglomeration economies through better matches. However, lower qualification mismatch in larger cities is found to explain at best a small part of the urban wage premium.

Relationships between metropolitan, satellite and regional city size, spatial context and economic productivity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Leishman ◽  
Steven Bond-Smith ◽  
Weidong Liang ◽  
Jinqiao Long ◽  
Duncan Maclennan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Agglomeration Economies ◽  
City Size ◽  
Spatial Context ◽  
Economic Productivity ◽  
Housing Costs

This report considers evidence about the existence and scale of agglomeration economies, including in Australian cities. It examines whether city size affects productivity, and whether economic productivity, city size and rising housing costs are interdependent.

City size and housing purchase intention: Evidence from rural–urban migrants in China

Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (9) ◽  
pp. 1866-1886 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanjiao Song ◽  
Chuanyong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Purchase Intention ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Housing Prices ◽  
City Size ◽  
Housing Cost ◽  
Spatial Equilibrium ◽  
Registration System ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Urban Migrants ◽  
The Impact

Despite the increased focus on housing choices among rural–urban migrants in China, there is a lack of studies on city size and housing purchase preferences. In this paper, we extend the conceptual framework of the Rosen–Roback model to analyse how city size affects rural–urban migrants’ housing purchase intention, and find that the impact of city size on the willingness to buy a house in the host city for migrants has an inverted U shape by using the China Migrants Dynamic Survey of 2014. To explain this phenomenon, we further adopt the Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition, which shows that rural–urban migrants have achieved a spatial equilibrium between housing costs and city amenities in large cities, compared with megacities and small cities. Specifically, the amenities in large cities can compensate for the negative impact of the high housing cost, making these large cities more attractive than small ones for rural–urban migrants, while rural migrants have to bear high housing prices and exclusive urban welfare because of the strict household registration system in megacities. This study thus sheds new light on the adoption of diversified housing policies to solve the housing problems of rural–urban migrants in China by considering city size.

scholarly journals City Size Distribution in China: Are Large Cities Dominant?

Urban Studies ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (10) ◽  
pp. 2159-2185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zelai Xu ◽  
Nong Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Size Distribution ◽  
City Size ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
City Size Distribution

Are large urban areas sustainability champions?: A Double Delinking Analysis of Environmental Performance of Global Cities

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 205-223
Author(s):  
SURENDRA SINGH
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
City Size ◽  
Kuznets Curve ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Global Cities ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Efficient Data ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of the present study is to investigate the relationship between both city size and welfare or prosperity on the one hand, and environmental-climatological outcomes on the other hand. This will be done by examining this intriguing relationship for a sample of 40 large cities in our world (with different size categories and located in countries with different welfare levels). Based on detailed statistical data on a multiplicity of relevant characteristics of these cities (stemming from the GPCI metropolitan data base of the Mori Memorial Foundation (2016)), we have used a super-efficient Data Envelopment Analysis (SE- DEA) to analyse the relative economic-environmental efficiency outcomes of distinct classes of global cities, so as to test the above mentioned double proposition, coined here double delinking or the double Kuznets curve phenomenon.

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