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The Zoning Strait-Jacket : The Freezing of American Neighborhoods of Single-Family Houses
Ellickson, Robert C. - 2020
Municipal zoning practices profoundly shape urban life in the United States. In regions such as Silicon Valley, regulatory barriers to residential construction have helped raise house prices to roughly ten times the national median. These astronomic prices have prompted some households to move...
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Exclusionary Zoning's Confused Defenders
Schleicher, David - 2021
scholars have written articles challenging the scholarly consensus in favor of zoning reform. This Article reviews their … cause for fear rather than as opportunities for growth and reform. The critics each uncritically embrace the regulatory … and Slack, would have on the case for land use reform. It argues that, if it does increase substantially, the form WFH …
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Animating Performance Zoning at Sustainability's Competitive Edge
Widener, Michael N. - 2018
This paper argues that economic competitiveness requires cities and towns to reimagine their zoning regulations, leveraging technology advances to address challenges revealed by demands for sustainability in building urban projects. The optimal means to accomplish this is to implement...
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Learning dynamics and the support for economic reforms : why good news can be bad
Wijnbergen, Sweder van; Willems, Tim - 2012
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Regional financial reform and corporate green innovation-evidence based on the establishment of China National Financial Comprehensive Reform Pilot Zones
Chen, Chen; Zhang, Tian; Chen, Haitao; Qi, Xiulin - In: Finance research letters 60 (2024), pp. 1-7
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Spatial Heterogeneity, Accessibility, and Zoning : An Empirical Investigation of Leapfrog Development
Zhang, Wendong - 2015
We investigate whether residential development patterns from a rapidly growing exurban area are consistent with the urban economic model's predictions of leapfrog and infill development. Using historical data on subdivision development from 1960-2005 in the Baltimore, Maryland region, we develop...
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Balancing the 'Zoning Budget'
Hills, Jr., Roderick M. - 2012
The politics of urban land use frustrate even the best intentions. A number of cities have made strong political commitments to increasing their local housing supply in the face of a crisis of affordability and availability in urban housing. However, their decisions to engage in “up-zoning,”...
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Policies for inclusive urbanisation in China
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - 2013
Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...
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Mortgage in the Russian Federation November 2012
Zadonsky, Georgy - 2013
Within three quarters of 2012, the volume of mortgage housing loans (MHL) (Rb 698.59bn) exceeded by 50% that extended in the respective period of 2011. With growth in lending volumes, a decrease in the overdue debt on MHL in rubles both in monetary terms and as a percentage of the outstanding...
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Mortgage in the Russian Federation
Zadonsky, Georgy - 2013
In 12 months of 2012, the volume of mortgage housing loans (MHL) exceeded by 47.3% that in the same period of 2011 and amounted to Rb 904.6bn, despite the continued growth in the weighted average rate on MHL in rubles extended within a month. In November 2012, the weighted average rate amounted...
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