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.Urban economics is broadly the economic study of; as such, it involves using the tools of to analyze urban issues such as crime, education, public transit, housing, and local government finance. More narrowly, it is a branch of that studies urban spatial structure and the location of households and firms.Much urban economic analysis relies on a particular model of urban spatial structure, the monocentric city model pioneered in the 1960s by,. While most other forms of do not account for spatial relationships between individuals and organizations, urban economics focuses on these spatial relationships to understand the economic motivations underlying the formation, functioning, and development of cities.Since its formulation in 1964, of a disc-shaped (CBD) and surrounding residential region has served as a starting point for urban economic analysis. Monocentricity has weakened over time because of changes in technology, particularly, faster and cheaper transportation (which makes it possible for commuters to live farther from their jobs in the CBD) and communications (which allow back-office operations to move out of the CBD).Additionally, recent research has sought to explain the polycentricity described in 's.





