Urban primacy in the Indian state of Karnataka is severe, since Bengaluru, the state's capital city, is more than eight times the size of the second biggest city. Our objectives in this paper are to investigate this primacy, estimating Zipf's law, understanding transport networks and...

This paper explores the incentives for backyarding, an expanding category of urban land-use in developing countries that has proliferated South Africa. The theoretical model exposes the trade-off faced by the homeowner in deciding how much backyard land to rent out: loss of yard space...

The authors analyze the effects of building height restrictions, providing a concrete welfare cost estimate for the city of Bangalore, India. Relying on several theoretical results, their analysis shows that the welfare cost imposed on its residents by Bangalore's building height restriction...