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Brown growth, green growth, and the efficiency of urbanization
Quaas, Martin F.; Smulders, Sjak - 2012
We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a stylized dynamic model of urban growth with three sectors of …'). If, however, production becomes cleaner over time ('green growth') the equilibrium urbanization path reaches the … efficient urbanization path after finite time without need of a coordinating mechanism. The results may be generalized to take …
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The political geography of cities
Bluhm, Richard; Lessmann, Christian; Schaudt, Paul - 2021
, such as market access, and that the effect is greater in countries where urbanization and industrialization occurred later …
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Rush hours and urbanization
Seidel, Tobias; Wickerath, Jan - 2019
We use a spatial general equilibrium model with potential commuting of workers between their place of work and their place of residence to analyze the effects of rush hours on the spatial allocation of employment and population, average labor productivity and the housing market. Abolishing...
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Structural change, urban congestion, and the end of growth
Grossmann, Volker - 2011
change ; urbanization …
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Skilled scalable services : the new urban bias in economic growth
Eckert, Fabian; Ganapati, Sharat; Walsh, Conor - 2020
Since 1980, economic growth in the U.S. has been fastest in its largest cities. We show that a group of skill- and information-intensive service industries are responsible for all of this new urban bias in recent growth. We then propose a simple explanation centered around the interaction of...
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Top lights : bright cities and their contribution to economic development
Bluhm, Richard; Krause, Melanie - 2018
The commonly-used satellite images of nighttime lights fail to capture the true brightness of most cities. We show that night lights are a reliable proxy for economic activity at the city level, provided they are first corrected for top-coding. We present a stylized model of urban luminosity and...
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The IOC's midas touch : Summer Olympics and city growth
Nitsch, Volker; Wendland, Nicolai - 2013
Hosting a mega-event is a costly activity of short duration. Still, cities frequently compete to become host of all types of events. This paper examines the effect of staging the largest and most important sporting event in the world, the Summer Olympic Games, on the host city. Applying a...
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The skyscraper revolution : global economic development and land savings
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Baum-Snow, Nathaniel; Jedwab, Remi - 2023
Tall buildings are central to facilitating sustainable urbanization and growth in cities worldwide. We estimate average …
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A threshold model of urban development
Vesperoni, Alberto; Schweinzer, Paul - 2018
through accessible data sets. Our predictions include an U-shaped relationship between the well-known measures of urbanization …
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Urban shrinkage in Eastern Germany
Bartholomae, Florian W.; Nam, Chang-woon; Schoenberg, … - 2015
This paper questions the widely applied parallelism of demographic and economic development in characterizing urban shrinkage in Germany, and argues that the usage of population change as a single indicator leads to incorrect policy recommendations for combating urban shrinkage. As the cases of...
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