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Managing megacities

Author(s) -

Rémy Prud’homme

Publication year - 1996

Publication title -

cybergeo

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.16

H-Index - 16

ISSN - 1278-3366

DOI - 10.4000/cybergeo.305

Subject(s) - megacity , argument (complex analysis) , point (geometry) , function (biology) , economic geography , business , geography , economics , economy , mathematics , biology , biochemistry , chemistry , geometry , evolutionary biology

Alonso, in a seminal paper written in 1971 develops the following argument: urban benefits increase with city size in a less than proportional way. Urban costs increase with city size in a more than proportional way. There comes a point where urban costs are greater than urban benefits: this point defines an optimal size. Beyond that point, cities are too big. This view completely omits a key factor: urban management. Urban benefits and urban costs are not merely a function of city size. The..

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