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One of the fundamental questions of Regional Science concerns the nature and necessity of cities as places of spatially concentrated production. Are there viable alternative scenarios where economic activities are dispersed rather than drawn together? Is spatial concentration essentially due to agglomeration economies drawing together several production activities or does it occur also in cases of a single production activity? In the latter case, what are the characteristic features that make spatial concentration economically advantageous?
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Beckmann, M.J. (1989). Von Thünen Revisited. In: Gahlen, B., Meyer, B., Schumann, J. (eds) Wirtschaftswachstum, Strukturwandel und dynamischer Wettbewerb. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74128-9_13
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