TY - JOUR
T1 - City origins
AU - Bosker, Maarten
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s)
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The urban history, archeology, regional science and urban economics literatures all stress many different locational characteristics as important in driving city location. The availability of ever better, spatially more finegrained, data on the historical and geographical characteristics of cities, and of locations that never developed into a city, makes it possible to start to enrich this debate with (much-needed) empirical evidence. Using this data in combination with more advanced empirical and computational methods will almost surely give us a better, empirically well-grounded, understanding of the relative importance of the many alleged “city seeds” in different parts of the world and at different points in history.
AB - The urban history, archeology, regional science and urban economics literatures all stress many different locational characteristics as important in driving city location. The availability of ever better, spatially more finegrained, data on the historical and geographical characteristics of cities, and of locations that never developed into a city, makes it possible to start to enrich this debate with (much-needed) empirical evidence. Using this data in combination with more advanced empirical and computational methods will almost surely give us a better, empirically well-grounded, understanding of the relative importance of the many alleged “city seeds” in different parts of the world and at different points in history.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85105252149&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2021.103677
DO - 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2021.103677
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85105252149
VL - 94
JO - Regional Science and Urban Economics
JF - Regional Science and Urban Economics
SN - 0166-0462
M1 - 103677
ER -