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Energy footprint of the city: Effects of urban land use and transportation policies
Larson, William; Liu, Feng; Yezer, Anthony - In: Journal of Urban Economics 72 (2012) 2, pp. 147-159
Urban land use and transportation policies have dramatic effects on the density and spatial distribution of residences in large cities. Effects of these policies have been analyzed using numerical urban simulation models. At the same time, the US Energy Information Administration’s Residential...
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The Energy Implications of City Size and Density
Yezer, Anthony M.; Larson, William - Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP), … - 2014
and congestion. These features allow the model to simulate cities of different sizes with a single parameterization and …
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The value of the greenbelt in Vienna: a spatial hedonic analysis
HERATH, Shanaka; Choumert, Johanna; MAIER, Gunther - HAL - 2014
This paper employs the hedonic price method (HPM) to examine whether the implicit value of the greenbelt is capitalized … rarely included in this type of analyses. Findings indicate that distance from the greenbelt is important in explaining … apartment prices in Vienna: while the CBD exerts a centripetal force, the greenbelt, on the contrary, exerts a centrifugal force …
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Urban Containment: An Effective Tool for Environmental Protection?
Cunha-e-Sa, Maria A.; Franco, Sofia F. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa - 2012
This paper examines the effectiveness of urban containment policies to protect forestland from residential conversion and to increase the provision of forest public goods in the presence of irreversible investments and policy uncertainty. We develop a model of a single landowner that allows for...
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The Relative Impacts of Trails and Greenbelts on Home Price
Asabere, Paul; Huffman, Forrest - In: The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics 38 (2009) 4, pp. 408-419
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Turning houses into gold: the failure of British planning
Cheshire, Paul - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
Britain's crisis of housing affordability is nothing to do with foreign speculators, according to Paul Cheshire. Rather, it is a result of decades of misguided planning policies that constrain the supply of land and turn houses into something like gold or artworks. Houses have been converted...
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The value of the greenbelt in Vienna: a spatial hedonic analysis
HERATH, Shanaka; CHOUMERT, Johanna; MAIER, Gunther - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 2014
This paper employs the hedonic price method (HPM) to examine whether the implicit value of the greenbelt is capitalized … rarely included in this type of analyses. Findings indicate that distance from the greenbelt is important in explaining … apartment prices in Vienna: while the CBD exerts a centripetal force, the greenbelt, on the contrary, exerts a centrifugal force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011170083
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Polycentric structure and the co-agglomeration of economic activities in Bogota: A nonparametric perspective.
Avendaño, Antonio; Enríquez, Hernán - UNIVERSIDAD SERGIO ARBOLEDA - 2012
Is widely recognized the polycentric structure of modern cities. However, little is known about the economic links between employment subcenters and the CBD, and the economic structure of subcenters. This study focuses in explore spatial relations between clusters of firms located in the same...
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Comparing urban form correlations of the travel patterns of older and younger adults
Figueroa, Maria J.; Nielsen, Thomas A. Sick; Siren, Anu - In: Transport Policy 35 (2014) C, pp. 10-20
Using disaggregated data from the Danish National Travel Survey conducted between 2006–2011, this study compares the travel patterns of older (65–84 years of age) and younger (18–64 years of age) adults regarding land use, socio-economic conditions and urban structures. The results...
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Urban Structure and Economic Growth
Gordon, Peter; Richardson, Harry W. - Lusk Center for Real Estate, Marshall School of Business - 2010
Adam Smith was one of the first to call attention to economic growth differences among nations. He described how the workings of markets, specifically the extent of specialization in production, offer a plausible explanation of these differentials. This idea has been enriched over the years with...
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