Distribution of Neighbourhood Size in Cities

EasyChair Preprint 6046

Abstract

We find that distribution of neighborhood sizes in cities follows exponential decay and explain this using a computational model of neighborhood dynamics, where agent movement is mediated by wealth. The use of a comparative wealth-based metric by agents combined with affordability thresholds appear necessary conditions for emergence of exponential decay.

Keyphrases: Zipf, cities, distribution, neighbourhoods, urban

@booklet{EasyChair:6046,
  author    = {Anand Sahasranaman and Henrik Jensen},
  title     = {Distribution of Neighbourhood Size in Cities},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 6046},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2021}}