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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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Cities in the Developing World
Bryan, Gharad - 2019
The fast and often chaotic urbanization of the developing world generates both economic opportunity and challenges …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480334
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The Greenness of China : Household Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Urban Development
Zheng, Siqi - 2009
China urbanization is associated with both increases in per-capita income and greenhouse gas emissions. This paper uses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463029
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463493
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Sprawl and Urban Growth
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2003
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. - 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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What Can Developing Cities Today Learn From the Urban Past?
Glaeser, Edward L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The downsides of density, including traffic congestion, contagious disease and crime, were common in Victorian London and classical Rome, just as they are today in Sao Paulo and Lagos. Our urban past provides lessons for developing world cities today. The first lesson, that I highlight, is that...
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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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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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