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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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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 …

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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 …

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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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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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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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Does Condominium Development Lead to Gentrification?

Boustan, Leah Platt - 2019

The condominium structure, which facilitates ownership of units in multi-family buildings, was only introduced to the US during the 1960s. We ask whether the subsequent development of condominiums encouraged high-income households to move to central cities. Although we document a strong positive...

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