Paul Cheshire
Biographic Data
| ID | 998613 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Cheshire |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Cheshire |
| SIGNATURE | CHESHIRE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0906-9536 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 313 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Pushing water uphill
London has had a green belt for seventy years making it the ‘canary in the coal mine’ for ‘zero land take’. Because of strong demand for housing space, rising prosperity underlies rising urban land demand so rigid physical limits increase real prices over time. Agglomeration economies ensure economic growth is disproportionately focused on our biggest cites. Thus policies limiting land supply cause ever increasing problems of housing unaffordabil…
In memoriam
Planning cities for the future
Urban growth drivers in a Europe of sticky people and implicit boundaries
We investigate urban GDP pc growth across the EU12 using data for functionally defined cities -rather than administrative regions. We test hypotheses on the role of human capital, EU integration and fragmentation of urban government and explore spatial dependence and mechanisms of spatial interaction. Results are acceptable on standard econometric tests without measures of spatial interaction but there is spatial dependence. If variables reflecti…
Office Space Supply Restrictions in Britain
Office space in Britain is the most expensive in the world and regulatory constraints are the obvious explanation. We estimate the ‘regulatory tax’ for 14 British office locations from 1961 to 2005. These are orders of magnitude greater than estimates for Manhattan condominiums or office space in continental Europe. Exploiting the panel data, we provide strong support for our hypothesis that the regulatory tax varies according to whether an area …
Population growth in European cities
CHESHIRE P. C. and MAGRINI S. (2006) Population growth in European cities: weather matters – but only nationally, Regional Studies 40, 23–37. This paper investigates differences in the rate of growth of population across the large city-regions of the European Union (EU)-12 between 1980 and 2000. The US model, which assumes perfect factor mobility, does not seem well adapted to European conditions. There is evidence strongly suggesting that equili…
The Introduction of Price Signals into Land Use Planning Decision-making
Although directed to the British system of town and country planning this paper has relevance for many OECD countries, including some with systems of land use regulation which evolved entirely independently of the British. The paper starts by characterising the basic features of the British land use planning system, viewed from the resource allocation point of view of an economist. A conclusion is that the system explicitly excludes any use of pr…
Introduction to Feature
Paul Cheshire and Stephen SheppardSeeing a Feature concerned with house prices in this Journal would probably leadmost economists to expect a set of papers focusing on houses as financial assetsand the impact of house prices on consumption behaviour; or they might expectto find a real estate economics feature analysing what particular aspects of a housereally influence its price. At one level this Feature is concerned with all theseissues, althou…
Capitalising the Value of Free Schools
There has been a growing literature in both the US (for example Haurin and Brasington 1996, and Black 1999) and the UK (for example Gibbons & Machin, 2003) that estimates the way in which school quality is capitalised into house prices. Cheshire and Sheppard 1995 and 1999 estimated hedonic models in which the quality of the secondary school to which a household was assigned was a significant variable which provided evidence that secondary school …
The welfare economics of land use planning
Cities in Competition
Reviews the interaction of competition between cities and the process of European integration. Spatial impact of European integration; Impact of territorial competition; Implications of interaction; Conclusions
Urban Economic Growth in Europe
A quite robust model of differential growth rates of per capita income in the major functional urban regions of the European Union is presented and tested for the 1980s. The results underline the important role of purely spatial economic processes in differential regional growth and suggest that the pattern of European urbanisation tends itself to generate systematic divergence of mean per capita incomes between neighbouring city-regions, even th…
A New Phase of Urban Development in Western Europe? The Evidence for the 1980s
This is the first report of patterns of population change during the 1980s in the major urban regions of the European Union (of 12), using the results of the 1990 census round (or registration data where no census was taken). There is evidence of a substantial breakup of the previous regular pattern of decentralisation, which had been spreading from northern to southern European cities and from the largest to the medium-sized cities. During the 1…
On the Price of Land and the Value of Amenities
Explaining the Recent Performance of the European Community's Major Urban Regions
An earlier paper set out and applied a methodology for measuring the comparative incidence of urban problems in the European Community (EC). An 'output'-rather than 'input'-based measure was generated, using weights which were derived using discriminant analysis. In the present paper these results are updated to 1988. This allows an estimate to be made of the changing incidence of urban problems in the EC for the whole period 1971-88. It is argue…
British Planning Policy and Access to Housing
There is evidence that the implementation of the planning system creates 'scarcity rents' for land in different uses by acting as a constraint on land supply. This paper provides, for 1984, estimates of the effects this has on house prices, on residential densities and on access to owner occupation. In turn these generate estimates of the extent to which urban development would spread in the South East if the planning system were operated in a wa…
Problems of Urban Decline and Growth in EEC Countries
The purpose of this paper is to draw together several strands of literature concerned with the measurement of spatial economic and social differences and then suggest an alternative approach. We then apply that approach to classifying the problems of 103 of the largest metropolitan regions in the EEC countries. In the process, this allows us to conceptualise and attempt to quantify 'urban decline' in Europe: and simultaneously discover the extent…
Agriculture, the Countryside and Land Use
Agriculture, the Countryside and Land Use
Agriculture, The Countryside and Land Use
Inner Areas as Spatial Labour Markets
After briefly sketching a suitable analytical framework for local labour markets the paper applies the analysis to the problems identified as peculiar to the inner city. It concludes that inner city labour market problems are not peculiar to such areas but result from the economics of urban structure compounded by general labour market deterioration
On the Price of Land and the Value of Amenities
A New Phase of Urban Development in Western Europe? The Evidence for the 1980s
This is the first report of patterns of population change during the 1980s in the major urban regions of the European Union (of 12), using the results of the 1990 census round (or registration data where no census was taken). There is evidence of a substantial breakup of the previous regular pattern of decentralisation, which had been spreading from northern to southern European cities and from the largest to the medium-sized cities. During the 1…
The welfare economics of land use planning
Capitalising the Value of Free Schools
There has been a growing literature in both the US (for example Haurin and Brasington 1996, and Black 1999) and the UK (for example Gibbons & Machin, 2003) that estimates the way in which school quality is capitalised into house prices. Cheshire and Sheppard 1995 and 1999 estimated hedonic models in which the quality of the secondary school to which a household was assigned was a significant variable which provided evidence that secondary school …
British Planning Policy and Access to Housing
There is evidence that the implementation of the planning system creates 'scarcity rents' for land in different uses by acting as a constraint on land supply. This paper provides, for 1984, estimates of the effects this has on house prices, on residential densities and on access to owner occupation. In turn these generate estimates of the extent to which urban development would spread in the South East if the planning system were operated in a wa…
The Introduction of Price Signals into Land Use Planning Decision-making
Although directed to the British system of town and country planning this paper has relevance for many OECD countries, including some with systems of land use regulation which evolved entirely independently of the British. The paper starts by characterising the basic features of the British land use planning system, viewed from the resource allocation point of view of an economist. A conclusion is that the system explicitly excludes any use of pr…
Population growth in European cities
CHESHIRE P. C. and MAGRINI S. (2006) Population growth in European cities: weather matters – but only nationally, Regional Studies 40, 23–37. This paper investigates differences in the rate of growth of population across the large city-regions of the European Union (EU)-12 between 1980 and 2000. The US model, which assumes perfect factor mobility, does not seem well adapted to European conditions. There is evidence strongly suggesting that equili…
Problems of Urban Decline and Growth in EEC Countries
The purpose of this paper is to draw together several strands of literature concerned with the measurement of spatial economic and social differences and then suggest an alternative approach. We then apply that approach to classifying the problems of 103 of the largest metropolitan regions in the EEC countries. In the process, this allows us to conceptualise and attempt to quantify 'urban decline' in Europe: and simultaneously discover the extent…
Office Space Supply Restrictions in Britain
Office space in Britain is the most expensive in the world and regulatory constraints are the obvious explanation. We estimate the ‘regulatory tax’ for 14 British office locations from 1961 to 2005. These are orders of magnitude greater than estimates for Manhattan condominiums or office space in continental Europe. Exploiting the panel data, we provide strong support for our hypothesis that the regulatory tax varies according to whether an area …
Urban growth drivers in a Europe of sticky people and implicit boundaries
We investigate urban GDP pc growth across the EU12 using data for functionally defined cities -rather than administrative regions. We test hypotheses on the role of human capital, EU integration and fragmentation of urban government and explore spatial dependence and mechanisms of spatial interaction. Results are acceptable on standard econometric tests without measures of spatial interaction but there is spatial dependence. If variables reflecti…
Explaining the Recent Performance of the European Community's Major Urban Regions
An earlier paper set out and applied a methodology for measuring the comparative incidence of urban problems in the European Community (EC). An 'output'-rather than 'input'-based measure was generated, using weights which were derived using discriminant analysis. In the present paper these results are updated to 1988. This allows an estimate to be made of the changing incidence of urban problems in the EC for the whole period 1971-88. It is argue…
Cities in Competition
Reviews the interaction of competition between cities and the process of European integration. Spatial impact of European integration; Impact of territorial competition; Implications of interaction; Conclusions
Agriculture, the Countryside and Land Use
Urban Economic Growth in Europe
A quite robust model of differential growth rates of per capita income in the major functional urban regions of the European Union is presented and tested for the 1980s. The results underline the important role of purely spatial economic processes in differential regional growth and suggest that the pattern of European urbanisation tends itself to generate systematic divergence of mean per capita incomes between neighbouring city-regions, even th…
Introduction to Feature
Paul Cheshire and Stephen SheppardSeeing a Feature concerned with house prices in this Journal would probably leadmost economists to expect a set of papers focusing on houses as financial assetsand the impact of house prices on consumption behaviour; or they might expectto find a real estate economics feature analysing what particular aspects of a housereally influence its price. At one level this Feature is concerned with all theseissues, althou…
Inner Areas as Spatial Labour Markets
After briefly sketching a suitable analytical framework for local labour markets the paper applies the analysis to the problems identified as peculiar to the inner city. It concludes that inner city labour market problems are not peculiar to such areas but result from the economics of urban structure compounded by general labour market deterioration
Agriculture, the Countryside and Land Use
Agriculture, The Countryside and Land Use
Agriculture, the Countryside and Land Use
Problems of Urban Decline and Growth in EEC Countries
The purpose of this paper is to draw together several strands of literature concerned with the measurement of spatial economic and social differences and then suggest an alternative approach. We then apply that approach to classifying the problems of 103 of the largest metropolitan regions in the EEC countries. In the process, this allows us to conceptualise and attempt to quantify 'urban decline' in Europe: and simultaneously discover the extent…
British Planning Policy and Access to Housing
There is evidence that the implementation of the planning system creates 'scarcity rents' for land in different uses by acting as a constraint on land supply. This paper provides, for 1984, estimates of the effects this has on house prices, on residential densities and on access to owner occupation. In turn these generate estimates of the extent to which urban development would spread in the South East if the planning system were operated in a wa…
Explaining the Recent Performance of the European Community's Major Urban Regions
An earlier paper set out and applied a methodology for measuring the comparative incidence of urban problems in the European Community (EC). An 'output'-rather than 'input'-based measure was generated, using weights which were derived using discriminant analysis. In the present paper these results are updated to 1988. This allows an estimate to be made of the changing incidence of urban problems in the EC for the whole period 1971-88. It is argue…
A New Phase of Urban Development in Western Europe? The Evidence for the 1980s
This is the first report of patterns of population change during the 1980s in the major urban regions of the European Union (of 12), using the results of the 1990 census round (or registration data where no census was taken). There is evidence of a substantial breakup of the previous regular pattern of decentralisation, which had been spreading from northern to southern European cities and from the largest to the medium-sized cities. During the 1…
On the Price of Land and the Value of Amenities
Urban Economic Growth in Europe
A quite robust model of differential growth rates of per capita income in the major functional urban regions of the European Union is presented and tested for the 1980s. The results underline the important role of purely spatial economic processes in differential regional growth and suggest that the pattern of European urbanisation tends itself to generate systematic divergence of mean per capita incomes between neighbouring city-regions, even th…
Cities in Competition
Reviews the interaction of competition between cities and the process of European integration. Spatial impact of European integration; Impact of territorial competition; Implications of interaction; Conclusions
The welfare economics of land use planning
Introduction to Feature
Paul Cheshire and Stephen SheppardSeeing a Feature concerned with house prices in this Journal would probably leadmost economists to expect a set of papers focusing on houses as financial assetsand the impact of house prices on consumption behaviour; or they might expectto find a real estate economics feature analysing what particular aspects of a housereally influence its price. At one level this Feature is concerned with all theseissues, althou…
Capitalising the Value of Free Schools
There has been a growing literature in both the US (for example Haurin and Brasington 1996, and Black 1999) and the UK (for example Gibbons & Machin, 2003) that estimates the way in which school quality is capitalised into house prices. Cheshire and Sheppard 1995 and 1999 estimated hedonic models in which the quality of the secondary school to which a household was assigned was a significant variable which provided evidence that secondary school …
The Introduction of Price Signals into Land Use Planning Decision-making
Although directed to the British system of town and country planning this paper has relevance for many OECD countries, including some with systems of land use regulation which evolved entirely independently of the British. The paper starts by characterising the basic features of the British land use planning system, viewed from the resource allocation point of view of an economist. A conclusion is that the system explicitly excludes any use of pr…
Population growth in European cities
CHESHIRE P. C. and MAGRINI S. (2006) Population growth in European cities: weather matters – but only nationally, Regional Studies 40, 23–37. This paper investigates differences in the rate of growth of population across the large city-regions of the European Union (EU)-12 between 1980 and 2000. The US model, which assumes perfect factor mobility, does not seem well adapted to European conditions. There is evidence strongly suggesting that equili…
Urban growth drivers in a Europe of sticky people and implicit boundaries
We investigate urban GDP pc growth across the EU12 using data for functionally defined cities -rather than administrative regions. We test hypotheses on the role of human capital, EU integration and fragmentation of urban government and explore spatial dependence and mechanisms of spatial interaction. Results are acceptable on standard econometric tests without measures of spatial interaction but there is spatial dependence. If variables reflecti…
Office Space Supply Restrictions in Britain
Office space in Britain is the most expensive in the world and regulatory constraints are the obvious explanation. We estimate the ‘regulatory tax’ for 14 British office locations from 1961 to 2005. These are orders of magnitude greater than estimates for Manhattan condominiums or office space in continental Europe. Exploiting the panel data, we provide strong support for our hypothesis that the regulatory tax varies according to whether an area …
Planning cities for the future
In memoriam
Pushing water uphill
London has had a green belt for seventy years making it the ‘canary in the coal mine’ for ‘zero land take’. Because of strong demand for housing space, rising prosperity underlies rising urban land demand so rigid physical limits increase real prices over time. Agglomeration economies ensure economic growth is disproportionately focused on our biggest cites. Thus policies limiting land supply cause ever increasing problems of housing unaffordabil…
Economics (19 works) · Geography (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Business (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Economic geography (7 works) · Housing Market and Economics (7 works) · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (6 works) · Agricultural economics (5 works) · Demography (4 works)