Does a location's growth benefit or suffer from being geographically close to large economic centers? Spatial proximity may lead to competition and hurt growth, but it may also generate positive spillovers and enhance growth. Using data on U.S. counties and metro areas for the period 1840-2017,...

Introduction -- Measuring urban environmental quality -- The urban environmental Kuznets curve -- Income growth and the urban environment: -- The role of the market -- Income growth and greener governance -- Population growth and the urban environment -- Spatial growth: the environmental cost of...

Introduction -- How motor vehicles take over cities -- The costs of sprawl -- Three cities that chose livability over sprawl -- Linking transportation and land use policies -- Erasing the incentives to sprawl -- Restructuring government institutions -- Creating constituencies for change --...