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Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics
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Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics

by V. Henderson, J.F. Thisse
July 2004
Intermediate to advanced
1082 pages
39h 18m
English
North Holland
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Chapter 56

Sprawl and Urban Growth

Edward L. Glaeser 1eglaeser@kuznets.fas.harvard.edu     Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.1. Also affiliated with NBER

Matthew E. Kahn Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA.JEL classification: R14, R41

Abstract

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 automobile and this form is sometimes called sprawl. In this essay, we document that sprawl is ubiquitous and that it is continuing to expand. Using a variety of evidence, we argue that sprawl is not ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780444509673