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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Land Use Regulation"”.
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Essays on the political economy of land use regulation
… the tradition of de facto community control of land-use regulation has come under increasing scrutiny. To investigate the consequences of this system of decentralized zoning, I integrate locally-controlled, endogenous zoning into a structural city model. Residents sort into neighborhoods on …
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Three Essays on Property: The Microeconomic Foundations of Locational Obsolescence; Holdouts and Cartel Formations in the Land Assembly Process; Compensation for Land Use Regulation: The Lucas Case
… wisdom holds that locational obsolescence is caused by externalities, yet this view implies that externalities fall primarily on building, rather than land, values. Evidence is provided herein that a more general cause is misallocated land. The analysis is based on a model of a market with two …
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Office rent and labor availability in the Chicago Metropolitan Area
… space demonstrate development opportunities. Land use regulation is suggested to explain the difference between the model results of the office rent and of the supply of office space.
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Corner Culture: Corner Stores in the Black Pearl Neighborhood of New Orleans
… to development patterns, market pressures, and land-use regulation. A number of these traditional businesses still exist today as neighborhood cultural institutions throughout the city. Many more, however, have faced conversions to residential buildings, abandonment, or demolition. This case …
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Participatory Zoning: Collectivity, contradictions, and the politics of inclusion in neighborhood planning
… of resident participation in land use decision-making, their engagement in such processes generates alternative ways of using land use regulation as tools for spatializing collective survival and even sovereignty. It offers critiques of current participatory planning processes …
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The local land use process in New Hampshire: Does it contribute to sprawl?
… changes, and community character. Local land use regulation is the principal tool available to the municipality that seeks to manage problems associated with growth. The policy decision process employed to develop these policy responses is a complex process of social and political …
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Incremental densification auctions : A politically viable method of producing infill housing in existing single-family neighborhoods
… is argued to result primarily from restrictive land use regulation as there are strong indications that densification would otherwise be economically viable in many locations. This paper approaches the question of removing regulatory barriers from the perspective of devising a process that would …
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Many voices, one wilderness : collaborative conservation in the greater Chicago region
… recognition in the conservation community that landscape-scale networks of preserves and habitat corridors are needed to adequately protect native biodiversity. While most of the efforts to protect land on this scale have occurred in rural environments dominated by resource lands, an increasing …
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Regulatory Utilization: A Novel Measure of Public Land Use Controls Comparable Across Space and Time and Calculable from Open-Source Data
… activist circles is the restrictive effect of land use regulation on housing supply. Although economic theory generally accords with this explanation, attempts to quantify the effects of land use regulations on housing supply have faced significant conceptual and practical challenges. …
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Land use, spatial structure, and regional economic performance: assessing the economic effects of land use planning and regulation
… and structural changes can directly affect land use patterns within the regions, little is known about the inverse: how a change or intervention in land use influences regional economic performance. Does land use planning or regulation promote a region's economic well-being? Alternatively, …
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Essays in Urban and Spatial Economics
… of three chapters on how infrastructure and regulation shape urban and spatial outcomes. While rather different in terms of the specific topic, they share at least three common themes. First, all chapters are policy-oriented and speak to currently urgent issues. Second, they study how …
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Essays in Local Governance: Studies of Policy Choices, Resource Management, and Community Impacts
… communities. The topics addressed range from land use and real estate development, to police response and crime prevention, to county jails, decarceration, and local labor markets. These far-reaching policies share a fundamental commonality: local decision makers allocating resources in a way …
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A Quantitative Analysis of the Economic Incentives of sub-Saharan Africa Urban Land Use Planning Systems: Case Study of Accra, Ghana.
The deficiency of sub-Saharan Africa urban land use planning regimes has received extensive discussion in the literature. As yet, little is known of the extent and magnitude of the economic impact of these planning regimes on the economic wellbeing of individuals and the society. This situation is …
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Form Based Codes and Economic Impacts: A Multivariate Regression Analysis and Case Study
… movement, form based codes frequently mix uses, allow for a greater variety of housing types and encourage development that is both denser and more compact. Despite an established literature which links land-use regulations, and zoning in particular, to fiscal outcomes, the impacts that …
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Understanding residential infill: a Christchurch case study of typologies and stakeholders
… Growth and New Urbanism claim intensification of land use as a means to achieve sustainability imperatives, manage urbanisation and curb peripheral sprawl. It appears policy makers and planners have taken this perspective into consideration over the last two decades as intensification appears more …
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Violations of land use and building regulations: evidence from a case study in Bangalore, India
Land use and building controls inherited from colonial tradition guide the implementation of urban development plans in developing countries. Current planning research argues that regulatory structures like land use, zoning, and building regulations are inappropriate given existing socio-economic, …