In this chapter, we discuss the use of gravity models in the study of spatial structure. Using the recent discussion on functional polycentricity as a background, we argue that the gravity model approach has one obvious advantage when examining spatial structure: it can simultaneously assess functional polycentricity and spatial interdependencies within one modelling framework. The chapter concludes with a discussion of methods that can be applied to estimate the gravity model.
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Burger, M., van Oort, F., & Meijers, E. (2019). Examining spatial structure using gravity models. In Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology (pp. 471–479). Springer Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12381-9_21
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