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Does pollution hinder urban competitiveness?

Kahn, Matthew E.; Lozano Gracia, Nancy; Soppelsa, Maria E. - 2019

This paper surveys the recent literature exploring the causes of urban pollution in the developing world and the … implications of such pollution for a city's competitiveness. Within a system of cities, cities compete for jobs and people. Those … pollution inhibit urban competitiveness? Second, why is this effect likely to grow in importance over time? Third, why have …

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Sustainable and Smart Cities

Kahn, Matthew E. - 2014

This paper explores the challenges and opportunities that government officials face in designing coherent ‘rules of the game’ for achieving urban sustainability during times of growth. Sustainability is judged by three criteria. The first involves elements of day-to-day quality of life, such...

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Sustainable and smart cities

Kahn, Matthew E. - 2014

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Green cities : urban growth and the environment

Kahn, Matthew E. - 2006

Introduction -- Measuring urban environmental quality -- The urban environmental Kuznets curve -- Income growth and the urban environment: -- The role of the market -- Income growth and greener governance -- Population growth and the urban environment -- Spatial growth: the environmental cost of...

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Sustainable and Smart Cities

Kahn, Matthew E. - 2017

This paper explores the challenges and opportunities that government officials face in designing coherent' rules of the game' for achieving urban sustainability during times of growth. Sustainability is judged by three criteria. The first involves elements of day-to-day quality of life, such as...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973213

Blue skies over Beijing : economic growth and the environment in China

Kahn, Matthew E.; Zheng, Siqi - 2016

's cities from the personal perspectives of the rich, middle class, and poor, and how they cope with the stresses of pollution …

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Environmentalism with Chinese characteristics : a review of Matthew E. Kahn and Siqi Zheng's Blue skies over Beijing : economic growth and the environment in China

Coxhead, Ian - In: Journal of economic literature 57 (2019) 1, pp. 161-179

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Blue Skies over Beijing : Economic Growth and the Environment in China

Kahn, Matthew E. - 2016

's cities from the personal perspectives of the rich, middle class, and poor, and how they cope with the stresses of pollution …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014482333

Chapter 56. Sprawl and Urban Growth

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kahn, Matthew E. - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 4, …, (pp. 2481-2527). 2004

Cities can be thought of as the absence of physical space between people and firms. As such, they exist to eliminate transportation costs for goods, people and ideas and transportation technologies dictate urban form. In the 21st century, the dominant form of city living is based on the...

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Particulate pollution trends in the 1980s

Kahn, Matthew E. - 1995

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000940270

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