If Cities are So Great, Why are People Leaving? A Response to Vining and Kontuly
- 1 December 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
- Vol. 9 (12) , 1421-1422
- https://doi.org/10.1068/a091421
Abstract
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.Keywords
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- Increasing Returns to City Size in the Face of an Impending Decline in the Sizes of Large Cities: Which is the Bogus Fact?Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 1977