-income city, we find that a 1% increase in density implies positive per capita net present values of wage and rent effects of $280 …This paper synthesises the state of knowledge on the economic effects of density. We consider 15 outcome categories and … 209 estimates of density elasticities from 103 studies. More than 50% of these estimates have not been previously …

as households move from the low-density countryside to the commuter belts of cities rather than from the city centers to … the periphery. Employment, however, becomes more agglomerated in high-density large cities. This adjustment implies an …

urban blight. The paper develops a simple dynamic model in which new suburban and older central-city properties compete for … suburban development, also depress central-city housing prices and undermine maintenance incentives, leading to deficient … levels of central-city rein-vestment. Corrective policies that shift population from the suburbs to the center result in …