PAK policy is one of the important policies that has been adopted in housing market during the two recent decades. It mainly focuses on saving, development and downsizing. Now given that housing can be considered both as a capital and an expendable property and it has unique characteristics such...

Inferences about the determinants of land prices in urban areas are typically based on housing transactions, which combine payments for land and long-lived improvements. In contrast, we investigate directly the determinants of urban land prices within a metropolitan area – the San Francisco...

Before the 2009 crisis, the change in the economic environment in policies support housing sector and regulations implemented by the federal government in the years following, significantly changed the environment in which construction companies were operating housing, which directly affected...

El objetivo de este artículo es el estudio de la conformación de varios centros en Lima Metropolitana (Perú), a la luz del modelo policéntrico. Nos hemos aproximado empíricamente a este proceso a través de la localización espacial de la fuerza laboral, como indicador de la concentración...

Questo contributo formula un quadro delle dinamiche di espansione urbana delle città Mediterranee come esempi applicabili ad altre regioni con caratteristiche socio-economiche simili. Viene proposta un’interpretazione del Mediterraneo urbano legata soprattutto alla governance locale, in...

This paper puts forward a general methodology to analyze the metropolitan economy. It is inspired by A.J. SCOTT?s works. It is based on the description of the inner urban structures of metropoles. Thus, the inner urban structure analysis is a means of describing the metropolitan economy. From...

The underlying hypothesis of our research is that of a permanence of the metropolization and segregation trends in populations and activities, especially through the emergence of peripheral polarities situated along main transport axes. The different works carried out in Costa-Rica, France and...

Under the assumption of perfect competition, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that abandoned properties and long undeveloped neighborhoods remain that way because they are unprofitable. In contrast, this paper introduces a model in which firms systematically overlook neighborhoods with...

US post-war suburbanization has reshaped the spatial pattern of growth in many metropolitan areas, with population and employment shift toward the suburbs resulting in the urban decay of central cities. This being the case, the adoption of adequate anti-sprawl policies should lead to a reduction...