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Rapid population growth, urbanization, and the growing challenges faced by the urban poor require redefining the …
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We use a spatial general equilibrium model with potential commuting of workers between their place of work and their place of residence to analyze the effects of rush hours on the spatial allocation of employment and population, average labor productivity and the housing market. Abolishing...
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capitalization is now central to the urbanization process and that the urban fabric has provided the corporation with a durable … structure to guarantee a stream of income. Capitalized urbanization, I contend, is the building of a certain future into the … urban present - also understood as the extension of time (the future) through the concentration of space (urbanization). It …
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In this paper, we test the effect of weather shocks and floods on urban social disorder for a panel of large cities in developing countries. We focus on a particular mechanism, namely the displacement of population into (large) cities. We test this hypothesis using a novel dataset on...
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Urbanization is happening fast in the developing world and especially so in sub-Saharan Africa where growth rates of …
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