Affiliation:
1. The Mathematical Institute, The University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland
Abstract
Part of a household's constrained budget is assumed to be comprised of a general cost of location. By using a simple generalisation of Muth's economic theory of the spatial pattern of urban housing, the population density distribution in a plane city is shown to be dependent on the distribution of this generalised cost of location. If housing demand is elastic, then this dependence is shown to be exponential, a conclusion which agrees with a familiar result obtained by maximising the entropy of a population system subject to a cost constraint. If the housing demand is less or more elastic, then the dependence is binomial. Implications of the theory are discussed and illustrations given.
Subject
Environmental Science (miscellaneous),Geography, Planning and Development
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