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Paradise Lost and Regained: Transportation Innovation, Income, and Residential Location
Stephen F. LeRoy,Jon Sonstelie +1 more
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In this paper, a simple extension of the model developed by Alonso, Muth, and others is proposed to explain why the rich move to the suburbs and the poor return to the city center.About:
This article is published in Journal of Urban Economics.The article was published on 1983-01-01. It has received 318 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Residential area.read more
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Urban spatial structure.
TL;DR: Anas et al. as discussed by the authors discuss the role that urban size and structure play in people's lives and how to understand the organization of cities, which yields insights about economy-wide growth processes and sheds light on economic concepts.
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The Wealth of Cities: Agglomeration Economies and Spatial Equilibrium in the United States
TL;DR: For example, this article argued that research on cities is different from research on countries, and that work on places within countries needs to consider population, income, and housing prices simultaneously.
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Why is central Paris rich and downtown Detroit poor?: An amenity-based theory
TL;DR: In this paper, the relative location of different income groups depends on the spatial pattern of amenities in a city, and when the center has a strong amenity advantage over the suburbs, the rich are likely to live at central locations.
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The Causes of Metropolitan Suburbanization
Peter Mieszkowski,Edwin S. Mills +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze causes and consequences of metropolitan suburbanization with a focus on trends in the United States and compare the effect of employment transportation and travel considerations with the impact of urban problems such as taxes public school quality crime and environmental quality.
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Why do the poor live in cities? The role of public transportation ✩
TL;DR: More than 19 percent of people in American central cities are poor and just 7.5% of people live in poverty in suburban areas as discussed by the authors, and the urbanization of poverty comes mainly from better access to public transportation in central cities.
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De gustibus non est disputandum
George J. Stigler,Gary S. Becker +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the Notre collegue Christophe Longuet nous offre une traduction inedite de cet article canonique precedee d'une presentation, en tout point remarquable, vous sera certainement tres utile.
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Measurement of urban travel demand
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest approaches to advancing the behavioral theory of travel demand and discuss some currently unresolved empirical questions on the determinants of travel behavior, and present results from a pilot study of rapid transit demand forecasting in the San Francisco Bay Area.