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The monocentric model and after

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2016

Catherine Baumont  and
Jean-Marie Huriot
Catherine Baumont
Affiliation:
LATEC (CNRS), University of Burgundy
Jean-Marie Huriot
Affiliation:
LATEC (CNRS), University of Burgundy
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Von Thünen's monocentric model is considered as one of the foundations of spatial economics. Most of its assumptions have been transfered from agricultural to urban space by New Urban Economics. This transposition gave new impetus both to the monocentric model and to urban economics. Yet the urban monocentric model, because of its strong economic and spatial assumptions, fails to explain the formation of cities. The economics of agglomeration, and more generally New Economic Geography, propose to solve this problem by considering endogenous formation of spatial concentrations, i.e. by changing radically the approach of space. We attempt to identify the lines of continuity and the main changes from von Thünen to contemporary urban microeconomics, and to understand in what way continuity is an obstacle to innovation, and how change has made it possible to renew urban economics.

Le modèle agricole monocentrique de von Thünen est un des modèles fondateurs de l'économie spatiale. On retrouve la plupart de ses hypothèses aujourd'hui dans l'approche de la Nouvelle Economie Urbaine. Cette transposition a donné un nouveau souffle au modèle monocentrique. Mais ces hypothèses rendent l'économie urbaine incapable d'expliquer la formation des villes. L'économie de l'agglomération et plus généralement la Nouvelle Géographie Economique proposent une solution par un changement radical des hypothèses qui consiste à endogénéiser la formation des concentrations spatiales. Dans ce papier, nous cherchons à interpréter les périodes de continuité et les phases de ruptures de von Thünen a l'économie urbaine contemporaine, en montrant en quoi la continuité est un obstacle à la nouveauté et comment une rupture peut renouveler l'économie urbaine.

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Recherches Économiques de Louvain/ Louvain Economic Review , Volume 64 , Issue 1: Space and economics in retrospect , 1998 , pp. 23 - 43
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Copyright © Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de recherches économiques et sociales 1998 

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