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Measuring urban economic density [PDF]
Journal of Urban Economics, 2021 At the heart of urban economics are agglomeration economies, which drive the existence and extent of cities. This paper estimates urban agglomeration effects, exploring simple and very nuanced measures of economic density to explain household income and ...
J. Vernon Henderson +5 more
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Urban Housing Density and Infrastructure Costs [PDF]
Sustainability, 2020 Urbanisation is one of the most significant global megatrends and, as a result, major cities are facing multiple challenges. In this study, we contribute to the sustainable urban development debate and examine the relation between housing density and ...
Arto Saari +3 more
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Urban density and Sustainability
, 2021 The intensification of the interdisciplinary debate on urban dispersion and land take, which for some time has animated various sectors connected with the Sciences of the Territory, is focusing interest on the relationships between urban/demographic ...
B. Romano, F. Zullo
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Automobiles and urban density [PDF]
Journal of Economic Geography, 2022 Abstract How has the rise of the automobile influenced urban areas over the past century? In this paper, we investigate the long-run impact of car ownership on urban population density, based on a sample of 232 city observations in 57 countries. Using the presence of a domestic car manufacturer in 1920 as a source of exogenous variation,
Francis Ostermeijer +3 more
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Urban Density and the Rate of Invention [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006 Economists, beginning with Alfred Marshall, have studied the significance of cities in the production and exploitation of information externalities that, today, we call knowledge spillovers. This paper presents robust evidence of those effects. We show that patent intensity - the per capita invention rate - is positively related to the density of ...
Gerald A. Carlino +2 more
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Urban Density and Pupil Attainment [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007 We explore the association between urban density and pupil attainment using three cohorts of pupils in schooling in England. Although—as widely recognised—attainment in dense urban places is low on average, this is not because urban environments disadvantage pupils, but because the most disadvantaged pupils with low average attainments attend the most ...
Stephen Gibbons, Olmo Silva
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The Urban Density Premium Across Establishments [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 We use longitudinal microdata to estimate the urban density premium for U.S. establishments, controlling for observed establishment characteristics and dynamic establishment behavior. Consistent with previous studies, we estimate a density premium between 6 and 10 percent, even after controlling for establishment composition, local skill mix, and the ...
R. Jason Faberman, Matthew Freedman
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Greenery as an Element of Imageability in Window Views
Land, 2022 A window view affects a person’s well-being and comfort. The effect of visual contact with nature on people depends on the quality of the outside scenery, which in turn depends on parameters such as the number of visible layers, the distance to visual ...
Alenka Fikfak +2 more
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Urban Planning, 2021 Green infrastructure plays a vital role for cities facing the challenges of urbanisation and climate change. It has the potential to mitigate the adverse effects of urban density and the heat island effect, enhancing the ecological and social resilience ...
Julia Mittermüller +5 more
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Noise and Health, 2021 Populations in cities are projected to increase globally, densifying urban residential environments with both positive and negative effects. Positive social effects are offset by negative health effects however; urban residential noise has been ...
Douglas MacCutcheon
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