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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Linear City"”.
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Containers : project for a new urbanism
… become a significant feature of the American city. It is a search for a hybrid typology of habitation and production for these neglected fields. The project starts with a research on urban industrial landscapes of major American cities in order to extract common features, then focuses on …
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Essays in industrial economics
… to price discriminate consumers. We use the linear city model to represent a market with two differentiated goods. We show that the optimal selling strategy for a multi product monopolist implies offering at least one lottery with probability 1/2. This result is in stark contrast with the the …
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Four Essays on Applied Energy Economics and Policy
… The first part (chapters 1 and 2) studies capacity payments in the electricity sector. The second part (chapter 3 and 4) is on gasoline retail markets. The first chapter explores welfare implications of capacity markets in the electricity sector. We propose a theoretical model with cost …
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Theory and Simulations in Spatial Economics
Chapter 2 deals with a linear city model à la Hotelling where the two firms share linear transport costs with their customers. Mill pricing and uniform delivery pricing are special limiting cases. We characterize the conditions for the existence of a pure strategy equilibrium in the two-stage …
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Garbage Dump Expertise : Tracing the 'Common Man' Project in the works of Aditya Prakash
… of "the common man" or the citizen, to the city though a historical account of the work of Aditya Prakash - an Indian modernist, who was part of the Capital Project Team -lead by Le Corbusier who designed the city of Chandigarh. The work of Aditya Prakash shows a commitment towards building …
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Essays in Industrial Organization and Political Economy
… I use these facts to develop a Hotelling's linear city model of competition where the two media firms choose their respective locations which signify the impression they want to impart to its readers. I find partisan media provides accurate information while covering topics favorable to its …