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Do commercial property owners internalize increases in tax payments or pass these increases onto the renters of commercial space? To address this question, I develop a nonlinear mixed effect multilevel model that exploits cross-sectional and longitudinal variation in a panel of office rent and...
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Using data from the 2012 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and an index of metropolitan urban sprawl, I estimate the effect of sprawl on the use of important preventive care services. Instrumenting for sprawl with the 1947 Highway Construction Plan, my findings suggest that a...
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We use detailed data from Indonesian cities to study how variation in density within urban areas affects social capital. For identification, we instrument density with soil characteristics, and control for community averages of observed characteristics. Under plausible assumptions, these...
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increasing urbanization and increases with greater structural complexity of vegetation. This study also revealed that spring is …
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American tradition of seeing, considering, and theorizing urbanization from the margins. It develops the approach of … “peripheral urbanization” as a way to integrate the theoretical agendas belonging to global suburbanisms, neo-marxist accounts of … planetary urbanization, and postcolonial urban studies, and to move urban theory closer to the complexity and diversity of …
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Various authors, most notably Putnam (2000), have argued that low-density living reduces social capital and thus social interaction, and this argument has been used to buttress criticisms of urban sprawl. If low densities in fact reduce social interaction, then an externality arises, validating...
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