We examine the effect of a large-scale administrative reorganization in China, where counties are annexed into cities to accommodate urban growth. We present a simple model to illustrate how this annexation may affect firm entry decisions and in turn land market outcomes. Using nationwide data...

In the rapidly changing sphere of urban development, land is shown to provide the basic morphological structure of the city, but also the source of economic and social power and the key to planning through examples from around the world

Intro -- Sprawl & Politics -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- 1. Room 217 -- 2. Brownfields, Chapman's Landing, and the Chestertown Wal-Mart -- 3. "Tell Them, 'The Governor Is Very Serious'" -- 4. The Initiative Begins to Take Shape -- 5. The Inside/Outside Strategy...

This paper investigates the effects of urban green and abandoned areas on residential well-being in major German cities, using panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the time period between 2000 and 2012 and cross-section data from the European Urban Atlas (EUA) for the year...

We study how urban land use fragmentation affects the subjective wellbeing of city residents. Therefore, we calculate fragmentation metrics based on the European Urban Atlas for 15,000 households in the German Socio-Economic Panel. Using random and fixed effects specifications, we find that...