Justin Delloye, Rémi Lemoy (now at UMR Idées, Rouen) and Geoffrey Caruso just published an article where they reconcile Alonso and the scaling literature. This is done through an augmented micro-economic model where scaling exponents are explicit and the scaling with population of the profile of residential land is exogenously given to better suit empirical … Continue reading Now there is a formal link between standard intra-urban theory of residential choice and population scaling as of urban systems theory! A must read in Geographical Analysis