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Sprawl and Accessibility
Bruegmann, Robert - In: The Journal of Transport and Land Use 1 (2008) 1, pp. 5-11
This essay argues that many of the assumptions that have been made about sprawl are misleading or just wrong. Nowhere … impaired accessibility for a large part of the population. At very least, the debates over sprawl have pitted private vs …
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Land markets and land market regulation : progress towards understanding
Cheshire, P. C.; Sheppard, Stephen Charles - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
We introduce the papers in this volume and put them into the context of the literature on land use regulation. We then synthesise and draw some conclusions from existing research on land use regulation and interpret the evidence currently available. In the light of this review we then identify...
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Exurban development
Newburn, David; Berck, Peter - In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 62 (2011) 3, pp. 323-336
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...
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Pioneers of Rural Sprawl in the Rocky Mountain West
Weiler, Stephan; Theobald, David - In: The Review of Regional Studies 33 (2003) 3, pp. 264-83
Urban sprawl has been criticized for its disproportionate impact on the environment. Yet urban areas are in fact less … of rural sprawl are then presented to highlight the relevance of this paper's theoretical perspective in the Rocky …
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The American Way of Land Use
Carruthers, John I.; Hepp, Selma; Knaap, Gerrit-Jan; … - In: International Regional Science Review 35 (2012) 3, pp. 267-302
This article examines the ability of proportional hazard models to evaluate changes in land use through time. There are three specific objectives: (a) to review previous research on the complexity of urbanization and explain how the spatial hazard framework accommodates that complexity; (b); to...
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Geography, policy or market? New evidence on the measurement and causes of sprawl (and infill) in US metropolitan regions
Paulsen, Kurt - In: Urban Studies 51 (2014) 12, pp. 2629-2645
This paper proposes four metrics to measure sprawl in metropolitan regions as marginal changes in land use over time … metropolitan areas in the continental USA for 1980 and 2000. Regression analysis is used to explain variations in sprawl metrics …, suggesting that policy can mitigate sprawl development. …
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The Economics of Urban-Rural Space
Irwin, Elena G.; Bell, Kathleen P.; Bockstael, Nancy E.; … - In: Annual Review of Resource Economics 1 (2009) 1, pp. 435-459
The emergence of urban-rural space, as evidenced by the expansion of low-density exurban areas and growth of amenity-based rural areas, is characterized by the merging of a rural landscape form with urban economic function. Changing economic conditions, including waning transportation and...
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Measuring Behavioral Responses to the Property Tax
Deskins, John; Fox, William - International Center for Public Policy, Andrew Young … - 2008
these effects may be desired, at least in certain circumstances, such as if the property tax limits sprawl or if the …
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Cities without skylines : worldwide building-height gaps and their implications
Jedwab, Remi; Barr, Jason; Brueckner, Jan K. - 2020
other measures of land-use regulation and international measures of housing prices, sprawl, congestion and pollution. Taken …
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Cities without skylines : worldwide building-height gaps and their possible determinants and implications
Jedwab, Remi; Barr, Jason; Brueckner, Jan K. - In: Journal of urban economics 132 (2022), pp. 1-21
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