Most scholars in urban studies, public policy and public administration support city living, that is, they (usually … robust to the operationalization of an urban area, and to the elaboration of the model with multiple controls known to …

the space, and agricultural land rent becomes a function of distance due to transport cost to bring the good to the market … economies and transport costs leads to an optimal area served by a local monopolist. In the world with low population density … environment of high transport costs. Such situation took place on the most part of Russian territory after liberalization that …

Urban sprawl has been criticized for its disproportionate impact on the environment. Yet urban areas are in fact less … land-intensive than recent rural development patterns. Residential first-movers into such virgin areas may spark waves of … developments. Evidence regarding regional land-use intensities, path-dependence of rural development, and accumulating social costs …

Urban expansion of the city of Tunis, source of distortion of inter-zones balance between housing supply and employment … infrastructure in terms of congestion and on the environment in terms of pollution. This study tried to detect urban expansion … is inspired by the standard models of the urban economy. Negative and significant signs of density gradients for the …