Garment districts have always had a form of distinctive industrial organization arising from strong agglomeration economies based on common skills and the need for direct coordination among fashion designers, manufacturers, contractors, and buyers. These local clusters of apparel-related firms are often populated by small and mediumsized enterprises whose production is coordinated by large manu...

What determines the location of cities? Sometimes, we can clearly identify instances when city locations were conomists believe that people choose to live and work at sites that have productive or amenity value such as a river, harbor, or some other natural resource. Another factor that may determine the location of a city is the benefits derived from density itself: agglomeration economies. Al...

Agglomeration externalities are generally credited as the prime cause of cluster formation. This theory is far from uncontroversial. We create an alternative perspective on clustering by integrating herd behaviour into conceptualization this process. An innovative agent-based model used in which formation constructed individual relocation decisions. It thus connects decisions to macro-level eme...