Cities Spatial Model
Operationalising structural spatial models for urban policy decisions.
Policymakers worldwide face daily decisions on allocating scarce resources, with large infrastructure investments, planning regulations, and urban regeneration projects significantly impacting the city's spatial form, residents, and economy.
Recent research using structural spatial models has provided economic insights into urban policy and investment decisions, showing how policies affect living and business locations, commuting patterns, floorspace prices, wages, productivity, and population welfare.
The IGC.CSM package, available for download on the CRAN repository, operationalises these models in a user-friendly format on R, enabling policymakers to apply this framework to various policy questions with minimal data inputs and programming knowledge.
Access the policy toolkit and user manual
Cities Spatial Model: A Quantitative Spatial Equilibrium Model to guide urban planning, policy, and infrastructure investment decisions
Evaluating economic gains to urban investments and policies: Introducing IGC’s Cities Spatial Model
