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Luc-Normand Tellier

January 06, 2023

Luc-Normand Tellier (born October 10, 1944) is a Professor Emeritus in spatial economics of the University of Quebec at Montreal.

Luc-Normand Tellier
Born (1944-10-10) 10 October 1944 (age 78)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
NationalityCanadian
InstitutionUniversité du Québec à Montréal
FieldRegional science, economics
Alma materUniversité de Montréal, University of Pennsylvania

Education and teaching

After teaching for two years (1964–1966) at the Collège Saint-André of Kigali, Rwanda, as a Canadian Peace Corps (CUSO/SUCO) volunteer, Tellier studied both economics and city planning. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Economics (1968) and a master's degree in City planning (1971) from the University of Montreal, as well as a master's degree (1971) and a Ph.D. (1973) in Regional science from the "Ivy League" University of Pennsylvania. Later, he taught urban economics at the "Institut d’urbanisme" of the University of Montreal before founding, in 1976, the Department of Urban Studies and Tourism of the University of Quebec at Montreal. He was chairman of that department for 13 years as well as, from 1981 to 1983, the director of the "Urbanisation" research center of the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS). He was granted the title of "Professor Emeritus" of the University of Quebec at Montréal in 2012.

The Fermat and Weber triangles

In 1971, he found the first direct (non iterative) numerical solution of the Fermat and Weber triangle problems.[1] Identified long before Von Thünen’s contributions, which go back to 1818, the Fermat triangle problem can be seen as the very beginning of space economy. It was formulated by the famous French mathematician Pierre de Fermat before 1640. More than 330 years later, it still had no direct numerical solution. As for the Weber triangle problem, which is a generalization of the Fermat triangle problem, it was first formulated by Thomas Simpson in 1750, and popularized by Alfred Weber in 1909. In 1971, that problem still had no direct numerical solution. The Fermat triangle problem consists in locating a point D with respect to three points A, B, and C in such a way that the sum of the distances between D and each of the three other points is minimized. The Weber triangle problem consists in locating a point D with respect to three points A, B, and C in such a way that the sum of the transportation costs between D and each of the three other points is minimized.

In 1985, in a book entitled Économie spatiale: rationalité économique de l'espace habité, Tellier formulated an all-new problem called the "attraction-repulsion problem", which constitutes a generalization of both the Fermat and Weber problems.[2] In the same book, he solved that problem for the first time in the triangle case, and he reinterpreted the space economy theory, especially, the theory of land rent, in the light of the concepts of attractive and repulsive forces stemming from the attraction-repulsion problem. That problem was later further analyzed by mathematicians like Chen, Hansen, Jaumard and Tuy (1992),[3] and Jalal and Krarup (2003).[4] Moreover, the attraction-repulsion problem is seen by Ottaviano and Thisse (2005)[5] as a prelude to the New Economic Geography that developed in the 1990s, and earned Paul Krugman a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2008. In its simplest version, the attraction-repulsion problem consists in locating a point D with respect to three points A1, A2 and R in such a way that the attractive forces exerted by points A1 and A2, and the repulsive force exerted by point R cancel each other out.

The topodynamic model and theory

In 1989, Tellier resorted to the attraction-repulsion problem to elaborate a new type of demo-economic model, the topodynamic model, which is not econometric, and which was developed before the emergence of the New Economic Geography. The topodynamic model was conceived with respect to a continuous space, and it allows generating long-run demo-economic projections in regions where other demo-economic models cannot generate believable projections due to the lack of reliable data.

In 1995, Tellier wrote a paper with Claude Vertefeuille introducing the concept of topodynamic inertia, and laying a mathematical basis for that concept.[6] That paper launched a debate that led to refining the concept, and greatly consolidating its mathematical basis. This was done in cooperation with Martin Pinsonnault. In 1997, Tellier published another paper that introduced the concept of topodynamic corridors, and the idea of a new section of economic sciences intended to complete microeconomics, meso-economics and macroeconomics. That new section, called "anoeconomics", would study the space-economic phenomena that are observed at a larger scale than the one of the States (which is the scale of macroeconomics) in a very long-run perspective. "Anoeconomics" comes from ano in Ancient Greek, which means "going back through time, and going up through space" (as in the word "anode").

In 2005 (in French) and 2009 (in English), Tellier published a book that reinterpreted the urban world history in the light of the topodynamic theory he had previously developed.[7]

In 2017-2018, he elaborated and implemented an Urban Metric System based on the notions of attractive force, repulsive force, and vector field analysis. That method allows to mathematically delimit the boundaries of urban areas (central cities, agglomerations, metropolitan areas, megacities, megalopolises, etc.) on the unique basis of the spatial distribution of dwellers and workers.[8]

Arctic rapprochement

In his first book, whose title was "Le Québec, État nordique",[9] Tellier proposed a rapprochement between Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and, eventually, an independent Quebec. That was 19 years before the Ottawa Declaration of 1996, and the creation of the Arctic Council, which gathers together those countries, plus Russia and the United States.

Historical researches

Parallel to his works in spatial economics, Tellier published in 1987 a book about the Le Tellier clan, which was one of the two main clans that struggled for obtaining the favors of the king of France at Versailles during the 17th and 18th centuries. It is in this clan that economic liberalism was born in reaction to "colbertism", which was the economic philosophy of the opposite clan.

Main contributions

  • Tellier, Luc-Normand and Boris Polanski, 1989, "The Weber Problem: Frequency of Different Solution Types and Extension to Repulsive Forces and Dynamic Processes", Journal of Regional Science, Vol 29, No. 3, pp. 387–405.
  • Tellier, Luc-Normand and Claude Vertefeuille, 1995, "Understanding Spatial Inertia: Centre of Gravity, Population Densities, the Weber Problem and Gravity Potential", Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 35, No 1, February 1995, pp. 155–64.
  • Tellier, Luc-Normand, 1972, "The Weber Problem: Solution and Interpretation", Geographical Analysis, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 215–33.
  • Tellier, Luc-Normand, 1977, Le Québec, État nordique, Montréal, Éditions Quinze, 232 pages, ISBN 0885651316.
  • Tellier, Luc-Normand, 1985, Économie spatiale: rationalité économique de l'espace habité, Chicoutimi, Gaëtan Morin éditeur, 280 pages, ISBN 2891051610.
  • Tellier, Luc-Normand, 1987, Face aux Colbert: les Le Tellier, Vauban, Turgot et l'avènement du libéralisme, Québec, Presses de l'Université du Québec, 816 pages, ISBN 2760504611.
  • Tellier, Luc-Normand, 1992, "From the Weber Problem to a "Topodynamic" Approach to Locational Systems", Environment and Planning A, Vol. 24, pp. 793–806.
  • Tellier, Luc-Normand, 1993, Économie spatiale: rationalité économique de l'espace habité (seconde édition revue, augmentée et corrigée), Montréal, Éditions Gaëtan Morin, 285 pages, ISBN 2891055012.
  • Tellier, Luc-Normand, 1997, "A Challenge for Regional Science: Revealing and Explaining the Global Spatial Logic of Economic Development", Papers in Regional Science, Vol. 76, No 4, pp. 371–84.
  • Tellier, Luc-Normand, and Martin Pinsonnault, 1998, "Further Understanding Spatial Inertia : a Reply", Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 38, No 3, pp. 513–34.
  • Tellier, Luc-Normand, 2005, Redécouvrir l’histoire mondiale, sa dynamique économique, ses villes et sa géographie, Montréal, Éditions Liber, 592 pages, ISBN 2895780633.
  • Tellier, Luc-Normand, 2009, Urban World History : An Economic and Geographical Perspective, Presses de l’Université du Québec, 620 pages, ISBN 9782760515888.
  • Tellier, Luc-Normand, 2017, Émergence de Montréal dans le système urbain nord-américain: 1642-1776, Québec, Septentrion, 528 p. ISBN 9782894488881
  • Tellier, Luc-Normand, 2021, « Integrating Entropy in the Topodynamic Approach and the Urban Metric System », in Aura Reggiani, Laurie Schintler, Roberto Patuelli & Danny Czamanski (dir.), Entropy, Complexity and Spatial Dynamics, Royaume-Uni, Cheltenham Glos, Edward Elgar, Chapter 12, pp. 198-215.
  • Tellier, Luc-Normand, and Jérémy Gelb, 2018, "An Urban Metric System based on space-economy : Foundations, and implementation", Regional Science Policy and Practice, 2018 :1-16. https://doi.org/10.1111/rsp3.12141
  • Tellier, Luc-Normand, 2019, Urban World History : An Economic and Geographical Perspective, Second Edition, Springer Nature, 465 pages, ISBN 978-3-030-24841-3.
  • Tellier, Luc-Normand, 2020, "Characterizing urban form by means of the Urban Metric System", Land Use Policy, ISSN: 0264-8377, on line May 12, 2020, on paper November 2021, article 104672.
  • Tellier, Luc-Normand, and Guillaume Marois, 2021, "The 'Invasion Peril' in light of the topodynamic theory, and some recent statistics", in Karima Kourtit, Bruce Newbold, Peter Nijkamp, and Mark Partridge (ed.), The Economic Geography of Cross-Border Migration, Basle, Switzerland : Springer Nature, pp. 15-32.

References

  1. ^ Tellier, Luc-Normand, 1972. "The Weber Problem: Solution and Interpretation." Geographical Analysis, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 215–33.
  2. ^ Tellier, Luc-Normand, 1985. "Économie spatiale: rationalité économique de l'espace habité". Chicoutimi, Gaëtan Morin éditeur, 280 p.
  3. ^ Chen, Pey-Chun, Hansen, Pierre, Jaumard, Brigitte and Hoang Tuy, 1992. "Weber's Problem with Attraction and Repulsion." Journal of Regional Science 32, 467–486.
  4. ^ Jalal, G. & Krarup J. (2003). "Geometrical solution to the Fermat Problem with Arbitrary Weights". Annals of Operations Research, 123, pp. 67–104.
  5. ^ Ottaviano, Gianmarco et Jacques-François Thisse, 2005, "New Economic Geography: What about the N?", Environment and Planning A 37, pp. 1707–25.
  6. ^ Tellier, Luc-Normand and Claude Vertefeuille, 1995, "Understanding Spatial Inertia: Centre of Gravity, Population Densities, the Weber Problem and Gravity Potential", Journal of Regional Science, vol. 35, no 1, February 1995, pp. 155–64.
  7. ^ Tellier, Luc-Normand, 2009, Urban World History, PUQ, 640 pages, ISBN 9782760515888. The lecture given by Tellier at Harvard University, in November 2017, about this book can be viewed on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3xwAbOYUas .
  8. ^ See: Luc-Normand Tellier and Jérémy Gelb, 2018, "An Urban Metric System based on space-economy : Foundations, and implementation", Regional Science Policy and Practice, 2018 :1-16. https://doi.org/10.1111/rsp3.12141. The authors of this paper received the RSPP Best Paper Award 2020 awarded by the Regional Science Association International.
  9. ^ Tellier, Luc-Normand, 1977, Le Québec, État nordique, Montreal, Quinze, 232 pages, ISBN 0885651316.

January 06, 2023
normand, tellier, born, october, 1944, professor, emeritus, spatial, economics, university, quebec, montreal, born, 1944, october, 1944, montreal, quebec, canadanationalitycanadianinstitutionuniversité, québec, montréalfieldregional, science, economicsalma, ma. Luc Normand Tellier born October 10 1944 is a Professor Emeritus in spatial economics of the University of Quebec at Montreal Luc Normand TellierBorn 1944 10 10 10 October 1944 age 78 Montreal Quebec CanadaNationalityCanadianInstitutionUniversite du Quebec a MontrealFieldRegional science economicsAlma materUniversite de Montreal University of Pennsylvania Contents 1 Education and teaching 2 The Fermat and Weber triangles 3 The topodynamic model and theory 4 Arctic rapprochement 5 Historical researches 6 Main contributions 7 ReferencesEducation and teaching EditAfter teaching for two years 1964 1966 at the College Saint Andre of Kigali Rwanda as a Canadian Peace Corps CUSO SUCO volunteer Tellier studied both economics and city planning He obtained a bachelor s degree in Economics 1968 and a master s degree in City planning 1971 from the University of Montreal as well as a master s degree 1971 and a Ph D 1973 in Regional science from the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania Later he taught urban economics at the Institut d urbanisme of the University of Montreal before founding in 1976 the Department of Urban Studies and Tourism of the University of Quebec at Montreal He was chairman of that department for 13 years as well as from 1981 to 1983 the director of the Urbanisation research center of the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique INRS He was granted the title of Professor Emeritus of the University of Quebec at Montreal in 2012 The Fermat and Weber triangles EditIn 1971 he found the first direct non iterative numerical solution of the Fermat and Weber triangle problems 1 Identified long before Von Thunen s contributions which go back to 1818 the Fermat triangle problem can be seen as the very beginning of space economy It was formulated by the famous French mathematician Pierre de Fermat before 1640 More than 330 years later it still had no direct numerical solution As for the Weber triangle problem which is a generalization of the Fermat triangle problem it was first formulated by Thomas Simpson in 1750 and popularized by Alfred Weber in 1909 In 1971 that problem still had no direct numerical solution The Fermat triangle problem consists in locating a point D with respect to three points A B and C in such a way that the sum of the distances between D and each of the three other points is minimized The Weber triangle problem consists in locating a point D with respect to three points A B and C in such a way that the sum of the transportation costs between D and each of the three other points is minimized In 1985 in a book entitled Economie spatiale rationalite economique de l espace habite Tellier formulated an all new problem called the attraction repulsion problem which constitutes a generalization of both the Fermat and Weber problems 2 In the same book he solved that problem for the first time in the triangle case and he reinterpreted the space economy theory especially the theory of land rent in the light of the concepts of attractive and repulsive forces stemming from the attraction repulsion problem That problem was later further analyzed by mathematicians like Chen Hansen Jaumard and Tuy 1992 3 and Jalal and Krarup 2003 4 Moreover the attraction repulsion problem is seen by Ottaviano and Thisse 2005 5 as a prelude to the New Economic Geography that developed in the 1990s and earned Paul Krugman a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2008 In its simplest version the attraction repulsion problem consists in locating a point D with respect to three points A1 A2 and R in such a way that the attractive forces exerted by points A1 and A2 and the repulsive force exerted by point R cancel each other out The topodynamic model and theory EditIn 1989 Tellier resorted to the attraction repulsion problem to elaborate a new type of demo economic model the topodynamic model which is not econometric and which was developed before the emergence of the New Economic Geography The topodynamic model was conceived with respect to a continuous space and it allows generating long run demo economic projections in regions where other demo economic models cannot generate believable projections due to the lack of reliable data In 1995 Tellier wrote a paper with Claude Vertefeuille introducing the concept of topodynamic inertia and laying a mathematical basis for that concept 6 That paper launched a debate that led to refining the concept and greatly consolidating its mathematical basis This was done in cooperation with Martin Pinsonnault In 1997 Tellier published another paper that introduced the concept of topodynamic corridors and the idea of a new section of economic sciences intended to complete microeconomics meso economics and macroeconomics That new section called anoeconomics would study the space economic phenomena that are observed at a larger scale than the one of the States which is the scale of macroeconomics in a very long run perspective Anoeconomics comes from ano in Ancient Greek which means going back through time and going up through space as in the word anode In 2005 in French and 2009 in English Tellier published a book that reinterpreted the urban world history in the light of the topodynamic theory he had previously developed 7 In 2017 2018 he elaborated and implemented an Urban Metric System based on the notions of attractive force repulsive force and vector field analysis That method allows to mathematically delimit the boundaries of urban areas central cities agglomerations metropolitan areas megacities megalopolises etc on the unique basis of the spatial distribution of dwellers and workers 8 Arctic rapprochement EditIn his first book whose title was Le Quebec Etat nordique 9 Tellier proposed a rapprochement between Canada Denmark Finland Iceland Norway Sweden and eventually an independent Quebec That was 19 years before the Ottawa Declaration of 1996 and the creation of the Arctic Council which gathers together those countries plus Russia and the United States Historical researches EditParallel to his works in spatial economics Tellier published in 1987 a book about the Le Tellier clan which was one of the two main clans that struggled for obtaining the favors of the king of France at Versailles during the 17th and 18th centuries It is in this clan that economic liberalism was born in reaction to colbertism which was the economic philosophy of the opposite clan Main contributions EditTellier Luc Normand and Boris Polanski 1989 The Weber Problem Frequency of Different Solution Types and Extension to Repulsive Forces and Dynamic Processes Journal of Regional Science Vol 29 No 3 pp 387 405 Tellier Luc Normand and Claude Vertefeuille 1995 Understanding Spatial Inertia Centre of Gravity Population Densities the Weber Problem and Gravity Potential Journal of Regional Science Vol 35 No 1 February 1995 pp 155 64 Tellier Luc Normand 1972 The Weber Problem Solution and Interpretation Geographical Analysis Vol 4 No 3 pp 215 33 Tellier Luc Normand 1977 Le Quebec Etat nordique Montreal Editions Quinze 232 pages ISBN 0885651316 Tellier Luc Normand 1985 Economie spatiale rationalite economique de l espace habite Chicoutimi Gaetan Morin editeur 280 pages ISBN 2891051610 Tellier Luc Normand 1987 Face aux Colbert les Le Tellier Vauban Turgot et l avenement du liberalisme Quebec Presses de l Universite du Quebec 816 pages ISBN 2760504611 Tellier Luc Normand 1992 From the Weber Problem to a Topodynamic Approach to Locational Systems Environment and Planning A Vol 24 pp 793 806 Tellier Luc Normand 1993 Economie spatiale rationalite economique de l espace habite seconde edition revue augmentee et corrigee Montreal Editions Gaetan Morin 285 pages ISBN 2891055012 Tellier Luc Normand 1997 A Challenge for Regional Science Revealing and Explaining the Global Spatial Logic of Economic Development Papers in Regional Science Vol 76 No 4 pp 371 84 Tellier Luc Normand and Martin Pinsonnault 1998 Further Understanding Spatial Inertia a Reply Journal of Regional Science Vol 38 No 3 pp 513 34 Tellier Luc Normand 2005 Redecouvrir l histoire mondiale sa dynamique economique ses villes et sa geographie Montreal Editions Liber 592 pages ISBN 2895780633 Tellier Luc Normand 2009 Urban World History An Economic and Geographical Perspective Presses de l Universite du Quebec 620 pages ISBN 9782760515888 Tellier Luc Normand 2017 Emergence de Montreal dans le systeme urbain nord americain 1642 1776 Quebec Septentrion 528 p ISBN 9782894488881 Tellier Luc Normand 2021 Integrating Entropy in the Topodynamic Approach and the Urban Metric System in Aura Reggiani Laurie Schintler Roberto Patuelli amp Danny Czamanski dir Entropy Complexity and Spatial Dynamics Royaume Uni Cheltenham Glos Edward Elgar Chapter 12 pp 198 215 Tellier Luc Normand and Jeremy Gelb 2018 An Urban Metric System based on space economy Foundations and implementation Regional Science Policy and Practice 2018 1 16 https doi org 10 1111 rsp3 12141 Tellier Luc Normand 2019 Urban World History An Economic and Geographical Perspective Second Edition Springer Nature 465 pages ISBN 978 3 030 24841 3 Tellier Luc Normand 2020 Characterizing urban form by means of the Urban Metric System Land Use Policy ISSN 0264 8377 on line May 12 2020 on paper November 2021 article 104672 Tellier Luc Normand and Guillaume Marois 2021 The Invasion Peril in light of the topodynamic theory and some recent statistics in Karima Kourtit Bruce Newbold Peter Nijkamp and Mark Partridge ed The Economic Geography of Cross Border Migration Basle Switzerland Springer Nature pp 15 32 References Edit Tellier Luc Normand 1972 The Weber Problem Solution and Interpretation Geographical Analysis vol 4 no 3 pp 215 33 Tellier Luc Normand 1985 Economie spatiale rationalite economique de l espace habite Chicoutimi Gaetan Morin editeur 280 p Chen Pey Chun Hansen Pierre Jaumard Brigitte and Hoang Tuy 1992 Weber s Problem with Attraction and Repulsion Journal of Regional Science 32 467 486 Jalal G amp Krarup J 2003 Geometrical solution to the Fermat Problem with Arbitrary Weights Annals of Operations Research 123 pp 67 104 Ottaviano Gianmarco et Jacques Francois Thisse 2005 New Economic Geography What about the N Environment and Planning A 37 pp 1707 25 Tellier Luc Normand and Claude Vertefeuille 1995 Understanding Spatial Inertia Centre of Gravity Population Densities the Weber Problem and Gravity Potential Journal of Regional Science vol 35 no 1 February 1995 pp 155 64 Tellier Luc Normand 2009 Urban World History PUQ 640 pages ISBN 9782760515888 The lecture given by Tellier at Harvard University in November 2017 about this book can be viewed on https www youtube com watch v v3xwAbOYUas See Luc Normand Tellier and Jeremy Gelb 2018 An Urban Metric System based on space economy Foundations and implementation Regional Science Policy and Practice 2018 1 16 https doi org 10 1111 rsp3 12141 The authors of this paper received the RSPP Best Paper Award 2020 awarded by the Regional 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