Monocentric City Case Study

According to various patterns of spatial organization and employment layout, spatial structure of urban (area can be divided into monocentric and polycentric city models (Ingram 1997; Bertaud 2003; Ding 2007). The monocentric city was the first formal model of urban spatial structure, conceptualized by Alonso 1964). The model showed that cities had a unique centre, often termed the Central Business District (CBD). The monocentric city has been the model most widely used to analyze the spatial organization of cities (Bertaud 2003). In the mid to latter half of the 20th century, as the proportion of jobs in the centre declining over time, employment began to diffuse to outside of the CBD of mega cities (Meyer & Gómez-Ibáñez 1981). It had become

Modifications in economic processes are important drivers which can lead to changed patterns of production, for example in form of changed patterns of economic specialisation. Duranton and Puga (2005) argue that with improved organisation in economic processes sectoral specialisation where core-peripheral patterns is displaced by functional specialisation and characterised by different economic specialisation of cities. The development of specialised urban locations leads to an increase of interaction and flows between these different sites. In regions where previous secondary centers can complement, huge core cities polycentric metropolitan regions arise. Prud’homme (1996) provides a convincing explanation for the growth of megacities in the last part of the twentieth century: Megacities’ capacity to maintain a unified labor market is the true long run limit to their size. Market fragmentation due to management or infrastructure failure should therefore result initially in economic decay and eventually in a loss of population1. In this paper, I am considering the spatial structure of a city as the possible cause of labor markets consolidation or fragmentation. It is obvious that the fragmentation of labor markets might have many different other causes, for instance, rigidity of labor laws or racial or sex