City seeds: Geography and the origins of the European city system
Abstract
Cities are the focal points of the world economy. This paper sheds new empirical light on their origins. Using a new dataset covering over 250,000 randomly selected potential city locations, and all actual cities during the period 800–1800, we disentangle the different roles of geography in shaping today’s European city system. We find that a location’s physical geography characteristics are the dominant determinants of its urban chances....
Paper Details
Title
City seeds: Geography and the origins of the European city system
Published Date
Mar 1, 2017
Journal
Volume
98
Pages
139 - 157
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