Abstract. Signals with finite rate of innovation are those signals having finite degrees of freedom per unit of time that specify them. In this paper, we introduce a prototypical space Vq(, ) modelling signals with finite rate of innovation, such as stream of (different) pulses found in GPS applications, cellular radio and ultra wide-band communication. In particular, the space Vq(, ) is generated by a family of well-localized molecules of similar size located on a relatively-separated set using q coefficients, and hence is locally finitely-generated. Moreover that space Vq(, ) includes finitely-generated shift-invariant spaces, spaces of non-uniform splines, and the twisted shift-invariant space in Gabor (Wilson) system as its special cases. Use the well-localization property of the generator , we show that if the generator is a frame for the space V2(, ) and has polynomial (subexponential) decay, then its canonical dual (tight) frame has the same polynomial (subexponential) decay....