The question of whether 21st-century urbanization dynamics are leading to a suburbanization of poverty in Western city regions has been on the agenda of spatial researchers and housing policymakers for over a decade now. Persistent reurbanization trends are putting increased pressure on...

Based on corrected nighttime light data and firm-level data from 1998 to 2010, we use an urban sprawl index that properly captures the subtle differences in density distribution within cities, extend a hyperbolic distance specification within a parametric stochastic framework to the analysis of...

The question of whether 21st-century urbanization dynamics are leading to a suburbanization of poverty in Western city regions has been on the agenda of spatial researchers and housing policymakers for over a decade now. Persistent reurbanization trends are putting increased pressure on...

Urban sprawl has a wide-ranging impact on the urban-rural fringe of the post-socialist cities, which are the most dynamically changing areas of the countryside in the Central and Eastern European countries. Intensive construction activity and population growth can be seen in the outskirts. Due...

Urban water security is a multi-faceted water, socioeconomic, and governance challenge. The complexity of translating the holistic approach into policies is an important need for improving water resource management to achieve prosperity, equity, sustainability, and good governance. The city of...

This article emphasizes the radically original character of the Urban Metric System: use of vector fields, a single parameter, several types of urban areas, a single input (the distribution of populations and jobs), no political boundaries taken into account and no density as input, abandonment...

Since 1970, the share of Black individuals living in suburbs of larger cities has risen from 16 to 36 percent. We present three facts illustrating how this suburbanization has changed spatial inequality. First, suburbanization entirely accounts for Black households' relative improvements in...

This paper documents effects of a homeownership subsidy's full repeal on the urban-rural residential location choice. First, I document the distribution of population across space for German labor market regions, using official NUTS-3 level population statistics. These labor market regions...

Bratislava, the capital city of Slovakia, is currently experiencing a period of intensive suburbanisation, which in turn creates demand pressures and increases the price of urban land located in its hinterland. This paper investigates several locational factors, which likely significantly...

Der Beitrag gibt in Abhängigkeit der siedlungsstrukturellen Kreistypen einen Überblick über die räumliche Entwicklung der Wohnungsmärkte in Baden-Württemberg von 2012 bis 2019. Die Daten stammen aus den Regionaldatenbanken des Statistischen Bundesamtes und des Statistischen Landesamtes...

Studies have found that air pollution increases with land misallocation, that is, industrial land is offered at low prices and in large quantities, while commercial/residential land at high price and in a restricted manner. We posit that urban sprawl is an important intermediate mechanism by...

Combining multiple waves of survey data on house satisfaction with a geolocalized data set of three million suburban houses, this paper provides direct quasi-experimental evidence of positional externalities in the field. Homeowners exposed to the construction of very large houses in their...

Housing affordability is often concerning in superstar cities. Like the Taipei metropolis, housing is too expensive in the fully built-up central city, but jobs are there. How can the government incentivize developers to create new housing in areas where households need not be stretch commuters?...

Pathum Thani Province is one of the provinces surrounding the Bangkok Metropolitan Area (BMA) that has received the spillover growth and expansion of the city of Bangkok. However, this has resulted in urban changes into sprawling characterized by clusters of peri-urbanization interspersed along...

This article studies the short- and long-run economic consequences of the now-extinct Shanghai tramway system. Geo-locating the tramway lines on both historical cadastral maps and current Google maps, I sort land parcels in the 1900s–1910s, and residential complexes in 2018, into treatment and...

This paper explores the impact of urban sprawl on carbon intensity for 263 Chinese cities from 2001 to 2017. Using annual maps of artificial impervious area data and Landscan population data, we measure urban sprawl and find strong evidence that urban sprawl exacerbates carbon intensity. This...

Der Beitrag gibt in Abhängigkeit der siedlungsstrukturellen Kreistypen einen Überblick über die räumliche Entwicklung der Wohnungsmärkte in Baden-Württemberg von 2012 bis 2019. Die Daten stammen aus den Regionaldatenbanken des Statistischen Bundesamtes und des Statistischen Landesamtes...

Freeway revolts were widespread protests across the U.S. following early urban Interstate construction in the mid-1950s. We present theory and evidence from panel data on neighborhoods and travel behavior to show that diminished quality of life from freeway disamenities inspired the revolts,...

Urban sprawl is basically the spatial, uncontrolled, and undesirable expansion and growth of cities, especially in the periphery part of a city. The introductory aspect of the paper examined the genealogy of urban sprawl in the United States. The paper also examined the socioeconomic, political,...

Urban blight has been found to cause a variety of problems, including negatively impacting the value of surrounding properties and increasing neighborhood crime rates. If the same externalities that give rise to urban sprawl also contribute to urban blight as is suggested by Brueckner and...

This article examines whether Hispanics achieve spatial equity with Whites through homeownership by comparing the neighborhoods of recent Hispanic and White homebuyers using the 2018 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data coupled with neighborhood information from the Decennial Census and 2014–2018...

China’s demographic changes have important global economic and geopolitical implications. Yet, our understanding of such transitions at the micro-spatial scale remains limited due to spatial inconsistency of the census data caused by administrative boundary adjustments. To fill this gap, we...

We use detailed data from Indonesian cities to study how variation in density within urban areas affects social capital. For identification, we instrument density with soil characteristics, and control for community averages of observed characteristics. Under plausible assumptions, these...

Despite the wealth of micro-macro data on short-term demographic dynamics, the impact of metropolitan growth and economic downturns on local fertility is still under-investigated in advanced economies. Recent studies in low-fertility contexts have assumed suburban birth rates as being...

Since 1970, the share of Black individuals living in suburbs of larger cities has risen from 16 to 36 percent. We present three facts illustrating how this suburbanization has changed spatial inequality. First, suburbanization entirely accounts for Black households' relative improvements in...

This paper documents effects of a homeownership subsidy's full repeal on the urban-rural residential location choice. First, I document the distribution of population across space for German labor market regions, using official NUTS-3 level population statistics. These labor market regions...

This paper studies the Rawlsian first-best allocation in a monocentric city model using a unifying framework of land ownership. We show that a Rawlsian planner would not choose the market outcome, except for the extreme case of public land ownership in which all the differential rent is...