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Reimagining India's urban future : a framework for securing high-growth, low-carbon, climate-resilient urban development in India

Tewari, Meenu; Aziz, Zeba; Cook, Mitchell; Goldar, Amrita; … - 2015

urbanization are unsustainably high. Deep existing deficits in basic urban services such as housing, transit, water, sanitation and …

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Pollution and the efficiency of urban growth

Quaas, Martin F.; Smulders, Sjak - 2008

We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a dynamic model of endogenous urban growth with two sectors of … equilibrium, compared to the efficient urbanization path, if economic growth implies increasing aggregate emissions. If, on the … other hand, production becomes cleaner over time (`quality growth') the urbanization path approximates the efficient outcome …

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Agglomeration, urban growth and infrastructure in global climate policy : a dynamic CGE approach

Grazi, Fabio; Waisman, Henri - 2015

This paper presents an integrated model of urban agglomeration economies within a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of global economic activity, energy use and carbon emissions to explore the theoretical and empirical nature of the interdependence of cities and the world economy in a...

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On the agglomeration of non-residential activities in an urban area

Hochman, Oded; Pines, David - 1997

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On alternative urban growth patterns

Pines, David - 2000

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The economic performance of cities : a Markov-switching approach

Owyang, Michael T.; Piger, Jeremy Max; Wall, Howard J.; … - 2007 - Rev.

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The effect of the Spanish reconquest on Iberian cities

Cuberes, David; González-Val, Rafael - 2015 - This version: July 2015

This paper studies the effect of the Spanish Reconquest, a military campaign that aimed to expel the Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula, on the population of its most important cities. The almost four centuries of Reconquest offer a "quasi-natural" experiment to study the persistence of...

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Human capital growth in a cross section of US metropolitan areas

Wheeler, Christopher H. (contributor) - 2005

"Human capital is typically viewed as generating a number of desirable outcomes, including economic growth. Yet, in spite of its importance, few empirical studies have explored why some economies accumulate more human capital than others. This paper attempts to do so using a sample of more than...

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Governance fragmentation and urban spatial expansion : evidence from Europe and the United States

Beghelli, Silvia; Guastella, Gianni; Pareglio, Stefano - 2019

This study assesses the effects of urban governance structure on the spatial expansion of metropolitan areas. A more fragmented governance structure, represented by a high number of administrative units with decision power on land use per inhabitant, is expected to increase the competition...

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Land use and land acquisition laws in India

Hoda, Anwarul - 2018

The enactment of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Rehabilitation Act, 2013, has made sweeping changes in the land acquisition laws of India (LARR Act, 2013). By increasing the compensation for acquired land, mandating a social impact...

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