CASA Working Paper 193

Von Thunen's Legendre Transform

The standard von Thunen construction for a monocentric city is shown to be a 
Legendre transform of the kind which underlies the statistical mechanical 
relationships of the standard maximum entropy transportation model. This
 allows the integration of the von Thunen analysis with the doubly constrained 
transportation model and shows the place of rents in the transportation model.

This extension of the model clarifies its interpretation as a complete
thermodynamic system for which the Maxwell relations may be derived.


Authors: Robin Morphet

Publication Date: 22nd July 2013

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