title: Urban economy as a scale-free network.
abstract: We present empirical evidence that land values are scale free and introduce a network model that reproduces the observations. The network approach to urban modeling is based on the assumption that the market dynamics that generates land values can be represented as a growing scale-free network. Our results suggest that the network properties of trade between specialized activities cause land values, and likely also other observables such as population, to be power-law distributed. In addition to being an attractive avenue for further analytical inquiry, the network representation is also applicable to empirical data and is thereby attractive for predictive modeling.
authors.affiliation: Physical Resource Theory, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96 Göteborg, Sweden. claesand@fy.chalmers.se
authors.forename: Claes
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Andersson
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hellervik
authors.forename: Kristian
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lindgren
authors.forename: Anders
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hagson
authors.forename: Jonas
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tornberg