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Owens, Raymond E. - 2017

We study the urban structure of the City of Detroit. Following several decades of decline, the city's current urban structure is clearly not optimal for its size, with a business district immediately surrounded by a ring of largely vacant neighborhoods. We propose a model with residential...

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The Optimal Distribution of Population Across Cities

Albouy, David - 2016

The received economic wisdom is that cities are too big and that public policy should limit their sizes. This wisdom assumes, unrealistically, that city sites are homogeneous, migration is unfettered, land is given freely to incoming migrants, and federal taxes are neutral. Should those...

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Flooded cities

Kocornik-Mina, Adriana; McDermott, Thomas K. J.; … - 2015

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The Potato'S Contribution to Population and Urbanization : Evidence from an Historical Experiment

Nunn, Nathan - 2009

introduction to the Old World from the Americas, to estimate the impact of potatoes on Old World population and urbanization. Our … urbanization observed during the 18th and 19th centuries …

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Urban Productivity in the Developing World

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2017

higher in developing-world cities than in rural areas, and historically urbanization is strongly correlated with economic … growth. Education seems to be a strong complement to urbanization, and entrepreneurial human capital correlates strongly with …

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Transforming Cities : Does Urbanization Promote Democratic Change?

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2016

Could urbanization lead to more democracy and better government for the mega-cities of the developing world? This paper … reviews three channels through which urbanization may generate political change. First, cities facilitate coordinated public …. Urbanization may improve the quality of poor-world governments, but more research is needed to draw that conclusion …

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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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Sprawl and Urban Growth

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kahn, Matthew E. - 2021

Cities can be thought of as the absence of physical space between people and firms. As such, they exist to eliminate transportation costs for goods, people and ideas and transportation technologies dictate urban form. In the 21st century, the dominant form of city living is based on the...

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

Glaeser, Edward L.; Shapiro, Jesse M. - 2021

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 skyscraper revolution : global economic development and land savings

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Baum-Snow, Nathaniel; Jedwab, Remi - 2023

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