Lowry Land-Use Transport Model
The Lowry model is the foundational operational model of urban land use, allocating where people live and where services locate around a given pattern of basic employment using spatial-interaction (gravity) distribution. Devised by Ira S. Lowry at the RAND Corporation in 1964 as 'A Model of Metropolis', it treats the city as a system in which basic jobs attract resident workers, those residents demand local services, and the resulting service jobs attract still more residents — a chain solved by iteration until the whole system balances. It launched the entire field of land-use and transport interaction modelling.
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Sources
- Lowry, I. S. (1964). A Model of Metropolis (RM-4035-RC). RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA. link ↗
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ScholarGate. (2026, June 22). Lowry Model of Metropolis (Land-Use and Transport Allocation). ScholarGate. https://scholargate.app/en/human-geography/lowry-land-use-transport-model
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