Productivity and Metropolitan Density
This paper evaluates the relationship between urban productivity and density using data on metropolitan areas. This is an alternative measure of the urban economy to the one employed by Ciccone [...]
Residential Construction: Using the Urban Growth Model to Estimate Housing Supply
This article presents an empirical model of housing supply derived from urban growth theory. This approach describes new housing construction as a function of changes in house prices and costs [...]
Land use regulation and new construction
This paper describes the relationship between land use regulation and residential construction. We characterize regulations as either adding explicit costs, uncertainty, or delays to the development process. The theoretical framework [...]
Consumer City
Urban economics has traditionally viewed cities as having advantages in production and disadvantages in consumption. We argue that the role of urban density in facilitating consumption is extremely important and [...]
Older Suburbs: Crabgrass Slums or New Urban Frontier?
Since the 1950s, suburbia has represented middle-class success and the fulfillment of the “American dream.” More than three-quarters of America’s new population growth has occurred in the suburbs. Indeed, more [...]
Urban Sprawl and Quality Growth in Ohio
Urban sprawl has surged to the forefront of local policy debate in Ohio. Concerns about the loss of open space, farm productivity, traffic congestion, and rising public-service costs have led [...]
Urban containment policies and housing prices: an international comparison with implications for future research
Policies of urban containment are widely used in land-use planning and as a means of reducing urban sprawl and of preserving farmland. This paper reviews the current state of knowledge [...]
Smart Growth and Housing Affordability: Evidence from Statewide Planning Laws
State legislatures across the nation are considering statewide planning reforms to grapple with population and urban growth on the metropolitan fringe. Many of these efforts are driven by theoretical concepts [...]
Smart Growth in Action: Housing Capacity and Development in Ventura County
Urban growth has emerged as a touchstone policy issue, particularly on the state and local levels, ushering in an unprecedented new wave of growth-management and growth-control legislation. More than a [...]
The Link Between Growth Management and Housing Affordability: The Academic Evidence
Rising concerns about traffic congestion, loss of farmland, urban disinvestment, and the costs of public infrastructure have led an increasing number of state and local governments to adopt new policies [...]