The shapes of US cities Revisiting the classic population density functions using crowdsourced geospatial data

The declining pattern of population density from city centres to the outskirts has been widely observed in American cities. Such a pattern reflects a trade-off between housing price/commuting cost and employment. However, most previous studies in urban population density functions are based on the E...

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Published in:	Urban studies (Edinburgh, Scotland) Vol. 57; no. 10; pp. 2147 - 2162
Main Authors:	Qiang, Yi, Xu, Jinwen, Zhang, Guohui
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London, England Sage Publications, Ltd 01.08.2020 SAGE Publications Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects:	Cities City centres Commuting Crowdsourcing Decentralization Dislocated workers Economic analysis Economic conditions Economic models Employment Euclidean geometry Exponential functions Housing Housing costs Housing prices Independent variables Morphology Population (statistical) Population decline Population density Population distribution Population growth Population studies Residential patterns Spatial data Statistics Technological change Travel time Urban areas Urban population Urban populations United States > US 就业集聚劳动力人口分布 population distribution agglomeration employment transport 众包地理空间数据 crowdsourced geospatial data labour 土地使用 land use urbanisation 城市化交通
ISSN:	0042-0980, 1360-063X
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