A comparative dynamic analysis of zoning in a growing city
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Research into zoning in urban land markets typically uses static models to analyze the effects of zoning on the markets for housing and land. However, urban development is a dynamic process, and dynamic models offer significantly different results over the long run than do static models. M. Fujita's model of a growing open city, an extension of the static model, was used to study how zoning affects residential development in a dynamic and open city. The impact of minimum lot size zoning on the pace and pattern of development was analyzed. Research results revealed that zoning retarded development at some sites while inducing leap-frog development at others, and neither phenomenon would have occurred in the absence of zoning. Under conditions of myopia, zoning postponed development times in those areas characterized by falling demanded density, and it increased development times in areas characterized by rising demanded density.
Publication Name: Journal of Urban Economics
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0094-1190
Year: 1991
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Household behavior in a monocentric urban area with a public sector
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Research examines the effects of adding a service providing and taxing public sector to the basic model of a monocentric urban area. The comparative static effects of exogenous taxes and service levels were added to the basic model. The household decision model has been split into a consumption and location selection processes. This split facilitates observation of how the locational choice aspect of urban consumer theory modifies standard neoclassical consumer theory and it shows how nonlocational demand relationships can be used to evaluate comparative static results.
Publication Name: Journal of Urban Economics
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0094-1190
Year: 1989
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The distribution of city size: a sensitivity analysis
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The validity of rank size distribution in measuring the size of urban areas has been challenged for several reasons. The statistical procedure for accepting rank size distribution is inadequate. Most research has been conducted on legal cities instead of theoretically required data on urban areas. Researchers have to use truncated samples when the lower tail of the distribution is excluded. Resent research has used the impact of variations in threshold size of urban areas on estimates of Pareto parameters and the effects on the validity of the rank size distribution.
Publication Name: Journal of Urban Economics
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0094-1190
Year: 1989
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