The control of urban sprawl often involves policies of allowable use zoning. Such policies may, however, provoke leapfrog development through their inflationary effect on the land and property markets in the area which is already urbanised. This inflationary effect results in particular from the...

The priority for France’s “Grenelle II” environmental legislation is to reduce the consumption of space caused by urbanisation. The best tool for achieving this goal is zoning within a territorial planning framework. Yet zoning also tends to increase property values, due to the scarcity...

This article aims at identifying emergent secondary centers within the Bordeaux metropolitan area and measuring their impact on residential and commercial real estate values, through the estimate of hedonic gradients. The various scales of the urban polycentrism are explored through the taking...

Cet article vise à mesurer l’impact des centralités émergentes sur les valeurs immobilières résidentielles et commerciales dans l’agglomération bordelaise, à travers l’estimation de gradients de prix immobiliers polycentriques. Les différentes échelles du polycentrisme sont...

Land use changes generate some conflicts, in particular between agricultural and residential uses in the urbanization context and sprawl phenomena. Coastal zones also produce specific amenities that create conflicts over land-use, increase housing and land values and, associated with and/or...