Dublin Core
Titre
Managing megacities
Sujet
Géographie
Systèmes ; modélisation ; géostatistiques
Espace ; société et territoire
Géographie : politique ; culture et représentation
Épistémologie et méthodes
ost:Environmental studies; Geography & Development
isi:Geography
isi:Urban studies
Description
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...
Créateur
Prud'homme, Rémy
Éditeur
UMR 8504 Géographie-cités
Date
1996-04-12
Langue
en
Type
article
Identifiant
http://cybergeo.revues.org/305