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other measures of land-use regulation and international measures of housing prices, sprawl, congestion and pollution. Taken …
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Urban sprawl has been criticized for its disproportionate impact on the environment. Yet urban areas are in fact less … of rural sprawl are then presented to highlight the relevance of this paper's theoretical perspective in the Rocky …
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these effects may be desired, at least in certain circumstances, such as if the property tax limits sprawl or if the …
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We introduce the papers in this volume and put them into the context of the literature on land use regulation. We then synthesise and draw some conclusions from existing research on land use regulation and interpret the evidence currently available. In the light of this review we then identify...
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This essay argues that many of the assumptions that have been made about sprawl are misleading or just wrong. Nowhere … impaired accessibility for a large part of the population. At very least, the debates over sprawl have pitted private vs …
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This paper analyzes the provision of residential parking in a monocentric city, with the ultimate goal of appraising … the desirability and effects of regulations such as a minimum-parking requirement (MPR) per dwelling. The analysis … considers three different regimes for provision of parking space: surface parking, underground parking, and structural parking …
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transport and biking. Special attention is paid to parking problems, and possibilities to cope with these by pricing measures …. It is demonstrated that in some cases parking externalities lead to non-convexities that make pricing policies less … attractive. In that case parking restrictions are called for. A general shift is observed from national to municipality policy …
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We develop a positive theory of pricing car access (by parking fees or cordon tolls) to downtown commercial districts … lobbying contribution schedules than superstores, which induces the government to underprice central roads and parking spaces … higher or lower parking fees, depending on their relative concern for the vitality of the central district. As a consequence …
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