Preface 1. Introduction Part I. Basic Theory: 2. Locational choice of the household 3. Equilibrium land use and optimal land use: single household type 4. Equilibrium land use and optimal land use: multiple household types 5. Urban aggregates and city sizes Part II. Extensions With Externalities: 6. Local public goods 7. Neighborhood externalities and traffic congestion 8. External economies, product variety, and city sizes Appendixes References Author index Subject index.

Urban economic theory : land use and city size

Several years ago an advertisement appeared in the real estate section of the Washington Post 1 promoting a new development: “The NICE THING about the city is that it eventually ENDS” (emphasis in original). The image juxtaposed sidewalks, a fire hydrant, and other essentially gray surfaces in the foreground (bad) with the bucolic images of forest and farm field in the distance (good). The implications were clear —if you want any meaningful ex posure to nature, quickly exit the city. Unfortunately, this reflects the popul ar attitude toward cities and nature.

The Nature of (in) Cities

Research on regional differences and influencing factors of green technology innovation efficiency of China’s high-tech industry

This research investigates how evolving urban spatial structure explains commuting patterns in Beijing, China. To describe the dynamic and multi-dimensional urban spatial evolution, we identify emerging-, persisting-, and non-center areas between 2000 and 2008 in Beijing’s three subregions—the inner city, inner-ring suburbs, and outer-ring suburbs. Based on individual-level commuting data from the 2010 Beijing Household Travel Survey, we estimate workers’ commute distance and time using multi-level regression models with interaction terms that capture the spatial evolution. Results reveal commuting differences among persisting-, emerging-, and non-center areas, and, more importantly, varying differences across the subregions: in the inner city, persisting and emerging center areas induce similarly longer commutes than non-center areas. In the inner-ring suburbs, commutes to emerging centers are shorter than those to persisting centers. In the outer-ring suburbs, emerging center areas incur the longest commutes, while persisting center areas the shortest. The results reflect varying economic and urban functions in different subregions of Beijing and caution us that promoting polycentric urban development may increase commutes and relevant negative externalities in Chinese cities.

Evolving urban spatial structure and commuting patterns: A case study of Beijing, China

How does sprawl differ across urban built-up land types in China? A spatial-temporal analysis of the Beijing metropolitan area using granted land parcel data

The spatial distribution of green buildings in China: Regional imbalance, economic fundamentals, and policy incentives

In the past decade, Beijing has experienced dramatic spatial restructuring In this paper, we test whether the conventional monocentric model of urban spatial structure can explain recent developments in Beijing’s land market Using official land transaction data from 2008 through 2012, we find that (1) for commercial, mixed-use, and residential land parcels, both land prices and development intensities do not decline with distance from the urban center; (2) for industrial land parcels, land prices increase with distance from the urban center These insignificant and positive land-price gradients defy the predictions of the monocentric model; such results are explained by examining Beijing’s evolution from a monocentric to a polycentric spatial configuration, which has been driven by various urban planning efforts and institutional reforms Our analysis of post-Olympic Beijing land market dynamics leads to a fresh understanding of the city’s emerging polycentric metropolitan structure

Modeling the polycentric evolution of post-Olympic Beijing: an empirical analysis of land prices and development intensity

China has witnessed unprecedented growth of its universities in recent years. Because they function as a sort of urban quasi-public good, university campuses generate a variety of externalities wit...

University Campuses and Housing Markets: Evidence from Nanjing

Two superatomic solids, a bi-cluster compound, [Ag6(3S)4(OTf)4][Ag6(3S)4(CCtBu)4](OTf)2 [Ag6(0)·Ag6(i)], and a homologous nanocluster, [Ag6(3S)4(tfa)4] (Ag6), have been described here, which are both close-packed in the crystal lattice with the ligation of trithiane. Their aggregation-state-dependent absorption and fluorescence properties could be ascribed to the enhanced intercluster charge-transfer in the crystalline state.

Ruijun Zhong

Papers

The spatial distribution of green buildings in China: Regional imbalance, economic fundamentals, and policy incentives

Modeling the polycentric evolution of post-Olympic Beijing: an empirical analysis of land prices and development intensity

University Campuses and Housing Markets: Evidence from Nanjing

Compact accumulation of superatomic silver nanoclusters with an octahedral Ag6 core ligated by trithiane.