Gaigné, Carl; Riou, Stéphane; Thisse, Jacques-François - HAL - 2010
-containment policies - the compact city - as a way to reduce the ecological footprint of cities. This approach overlooks the following … basic trade-off: the concentration of activities decreases the ecological footprint stemming from commodity shipping between … cities, but it increases emissions of greenhouse gas by inducing longer worktrips. What matters for the ecological footprint …