Urban planning has shaped cities for millennia, demarcating property rights and mitigating coordination failures, but its rigidities often conflict with market-driven development, which reflects preferences. Although planning is widespread in high-income countries, rapidly growing cities in the...

Protected areas are a key tool for conservation policy but their economic impacts are not well understood. This paper presents new evidence about the local effects of strictly protected areas in Thailand, combining data on socioeconomic outcomes from a poverty mapping study with satellite-based...

Misallocation of land resources can be a substantial hindrance to economic development in a developing or transition economy. If access to land resources is limited by the government or if the ability to gain appropriate permits to use the land is subject to delays, required bribes, or...

Exurbia, the rural area beyond the built-up urban and contiguous suburban area, is being developed rapidly with attendant losses in habitat and ecosystem services. This paper analyzes a spatial dynamic model with two production technologies for residential development - municipal sewer service...

We investigate whether residential development patterns from a rapidly growing exurban area are consistent with the urban economic model's predictions of leapfrog and infill development. Using historical data on subdivision development from 1960-2005 in the Baltimore, Maryland region, we develop...

In A Nation Within, Ezra Rosser explores the connection between land-use patterns and development in the Navajo Nation. Roughly the size of Ireland or West Virginia, the Navajo reservation has seen successive waves of natural resource-based development over the last century: grazing and...

Skyscrapers are an intellectual challenge for urban analysis because of their imposing visual presence in the city landscape, and because of their environmental and real estate impacts. These characteristics however have not received much attention in the literature, particularly in analyses...

Michael Hüther, Direktor des Instituts der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln, betont, dass mehr Geduld vonnöten sei. Man sei 20 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall zwar immer noch von den seinerzeitigen Wünschen und Erwartungen entfernt, doch habe die Entwicklung auch positiv überrascht.

Gibbs, D., Deutz, P. and Proctor, A. (2005) Industrial ecology and eco-industrial development: a potential paradigm for local and regional development?, Regional Studies 39 , 171-183. Increasingly, concepts such as sustainable development and ecological modernization have entered into local and...

Michael Hüther, Direktor des Instituts der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln, betont, dass mehr Geduld vonnöten sei. Man sei 20 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall zwar immer noch von den seinerzeitigen Wünschen und Erwartungen entfernt, doch habe die Entwicklung auch positiv überrascht.