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Is There a New Urbanism? The Growth of U.S. Cities in the 1990s

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2001

The 1990s were an unusually good decade for the largest American cities and, in particular, for the cities of the Midwest. However, fundamentally urban growth in the 1990s looked extremely similar to urban growth during the prior post-war decades. The growth of cities was determined by three...

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The Effects of Urban Concentration on Economic Growth

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2000

The paper examines whether there is a significant relationship between economic growth and the degree of urban concentration, as measured by primacy, or the share of the largest metro area in national urban population. Is there reason to believe many countries have excessive primacy and how...

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Urban Growth

Black, Duncan - 1997

This paper models and examines empirically the evolution of cities in an economy. Twentieth century evolution in the USA is characterized by parallel growth of cities of different types and on-going entry of new cities, together maintaining a stable relative size distribution of cities. Each...

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Explaining the Rise in Antebellum Pauperism : New Evidence

Kiesling, Lynne L. - 1996

. Contributing factors were increased immigration and urbanization …

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Urbanization and its Discontents

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2020

American cities have experienced a remarkable renaissance over the past 40 years, but in recent years, cities have experienced considerable discontent. Anger about high housing prices and gentrification has led to protests. The urban wage premium appears to have disappeared for less skilled...

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The Impact of Global Warming on Rural-Urban Migrations : Evidence from Global Big Data

Peri, Giovanni - 2019

urbanization in middle-income countries such as Argentina, but it will slow down urban transition in poor countries like Malawi and …

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Cities in the Developing World

Bryan, Gharad - 2019

The fast and often chaotic urbanization of the developing world generates both economic opportunity and challenges …

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Relocating or Redefined : A New Perspective on Urbanization in China

Gan, Li - 2019

China's fast economic growth over the past 40 years has been accompanied by an increasingly rapid rate of urbanization …, but not to the change of night-time light. These results suggest that an inaccurate account of urbanization is an …

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History and Urban Economics

Hanlon, W. Walker - 2020

urban economics that uses the historical urbanization as a proxy for economic growth, discusses differences between how … economic historians and urban economists think about the relationship between urbanization and growth, and considers how these …

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Urbanization in the Developing World : Too Early or Too Slow?

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2020

We describe patterns of urbanization in the developing world and the extent to which they differ from the developed … world. We consider the extent to which urbanization in the developing world can be explained by conventional models of … structural transformation has suggested that urbanization in the developing is occurring `too early', while another strand argues …

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