Arthur C Nelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4504615 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arthur C Nelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arthur C |
| FAMILY NAME | Nelson |
| SIGNATURE | NELSON A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2578-3884 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 246 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Value capture mechanisms and willingness to pay for urban sustainability: An international systematic review and analysis
Cities worldwide face increasing fiscal pressure as aging infrastructure and rising sustainability demands outpace traditional municipal revenue sources. Value capture mechanisms have emerged as an important approach to financing urban sustainability investments, yet their effectiveness depends on public acceptance of the underlying revenue instruments. This article presents an international systematic review examining how value capture tools, in…
Missing Middle Housing: Thinking Big and Building Small to Respond to Today's Housing Crisis
The Social Impacts of Urban Containment
Social Impacts of Urban Containment
Growth Management and Urban Planning in the United States
Structural equation models of VMT growth in US urbanised areas
Vehicle miles travelled (VMT) is a primary performance indicator for land use and transportation, bringing with it both positive and negative externalities. This study updates and refines previous work on VMT in urbanised areas, using recent data, additional metrics and structural equation modelling (SEM). In a cross-sectional model for 2010, population, income and freeway capacity are positively related to VMT, while gasoline prices, development…
Relationship between urban sprawl and physical activity, obesity, and morbidity – Update and refinement
Developing urban and suburban areas in a more compact manner may have some salutary effect on obesity and chronic disease trends
The New Urbanity: The Rise of a New America
The period from 2010 to 2030 will see as sweeping a change to America’s metropolitan landscape as the half century after World War II. During the baby boom era, 1946 through 1964, about half of American households were raising children; in 2030, only about a quarter will be. Between 2010 and 2030, the increase in the number of single-person households will be more than double the increase in the number of households with children. A major reason …
The Effect of Urban Containment and Mandatory Housing Elements on Racial Segregation in Us Metropolitan Areas, 1990–2000
Urban containment and state-imposed mandatory housing elements in comprehensive land use plans attempt to reshape development patterns. Urban containment programs reign in the outward expansion of urban areas by restricting development of rural land outside urban containment boundaries and focusing the regional demand for urban development areas within them. This article assesses the effect of urban containment and mandatory housing elements on t…
Urban Containment and Residential Segregation: A Preliminary Investigation
A fundamental purpose of traditional land-use controls is to exclude undesirable land uses from residential communities. However, such regulations have been shown to limit the ability of low-income households and people of colour to find suitable housing in decent neighbourhoods. Urban containment is an attempt to regulate land uses in ways that reduce if not eliminate social exclusion. This paper uses information from a nation-wide survey of met…
Locating Major League Stadiums Where They Can Make a Difference: Empirical Analysis with Implications for All Major Public Venues
The louder policy analysts complain about using public resources to subsidize the construction of new major league sports stadiums, the more subsidies are made, despite empirical evidence showing that public investments in stadiums to lure or keep major league teams have considerable opportunity costs. Policy analysts should consider shifting the emphasis of their work to evaluate where building stadiums would minimize opportunity costs or maximi…
Urban containment policies and housing prices: An international comparison with implications for future research
Does Growth Management Matter? The Effect of Growth Management on Economic Performance
Growth management attempts to improve the ordering of development to improve outcomes. To taxpayers, growth management promises more efficient delivery of public facilities and services. To developers, growth management promises more certainty. To citizen activists, growth management promises resolution of development problems in advance, instead of on an ad hoc basis. These promises are heroic. Nonetheless, even if only partly successful, commun…
Metropolitan Governance Structure and Income Growth
There has long been debate on the extent to which the structure of government in metropolitan areas helps or hinders income growth. Polycentrists contend that numerous local governments lead to competition that streamlines government, produces services at least cost, and leads to higher incomes. Centristts argue that large, multiple service governments have scale economies leading to more efficient production of services and hence higher incomes.…
Comparing states with and without growth management Analysis based on indicators with policy implications
Assessing growth management policy implementation
Assessing urban growth management
Disamenity Influences of Edge Cities on Exurban Land Values: A Theory with Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications
A theory is posed with some empirical support on how the American exurban land market behaves near edge cities. The exurban land market exists beyond the built-up urban area within commuting range of urban employment and service opportunities. It responds differently to proximity to downtown, edge cities and the boundary of urban development. Three relationships between the value of exurban land and these landscape features are theorised and empi…
Revitalizing Minority Commercial Areas through Commercial Historic District Designation: A Case Study of Atlanta, Georgia
Historic preservation is one way cities can stimulate the economies of lagging or distressed areas. Owners of commercial properties in historic districts enjoy federal and local tax incentives, grants, and loans, as well as protection of external facades in the district. If historic district designation is associated with price effects, there should be a significant price differential between commercial properties in designated and nondesignated …
Economic critique of U.S. prime farmland preservation policies
The analytic basis for an effective prime farmland landscape preservation scheme in the U.S.A
The Exurbanization of America and Its Planning Policy Implications
There is considerable evidence of continued population deconcentra tion in the continental United States. It has created, among other things, a new form of development, which we call exurbanization. In this paper we suggest the magnitude of exur banization in both spatial and popu lation terms, identify many of the reasons for the locational behavior of exurban households, and present some notable planning policy impli cations. We ask our plannin…
Small cities and counties: A guide to managing services
Towards a theory of the American rural residential land market
Demand, Segmentation, and Timing Effects of an Urban Containment Program on Urban Fringe Land Values
Theoretically, urban containment programs will create an additional demand for urban land, reduce the demand for rural land, and segment the urban fringe land market into urban and rural submarkets. However, empirical evidence of these effects is scant. In addition, there is some question of the time it takes the urban fringe land market to internalize the supply restricting effects of urban containment programs. This paper presents evidence of t…
Urban containment policies and housing prices: An international comparison with implications for future research
Relationship between urban sprawl and physical activity, obesity, and morbidity – Update and refinement
Developing urban and suburban areas in a more compact manner may have some salutary effect on obesity and chronic disease trends
Comparing states with and without growth management Analysis based on indicators with policy implications
The Exurbanization of America and Its Planning Policy Implications
There is considerable evidence of continued population deconcentra tion in the continental United States. It has created, among other things, a new form of development, which we call exurbanization. In this paper we suggest the magnitude of exur banization in both spatial and popu lation terms, identify many of the reasons for the locational behavior of exurban households, and present some notable planning policy impli cations. We ask our plannin…
Metropolitan Governance Structure and Income Growth
There has long been debate on the extent to which the structure of government in metropolitan areas helps or hinders income growth. Polycentrists contend that numerous local governments lead to competition that streamlines government, produces services at least cost, and leads to higher incomes. Centristts argue that large, multiple service governments have scale economies leading to more efficient production of services and hence higher incomes.…
Assessing growth management policy implementation
Assessing urban growth management
The New Urbanity: The Rise of a New America
The period from 2010 to 2030 will see as sweeping a change to America’s metropolitan landscape as the half century after World War II. During the baby boom era, 1946 through 1964, about half of American households were raising children; in 2030, only about a quarter will be. Between 2010 and 2030, the increase in the number of single-person households will be more than double the increase in the number of households with children. A major reason …
Urban Containment and Residential Segregation: A Preliminary Investigation
A fundamental purpose of traditional land-use controls is to exclude undesirable land uses from residential communities. However, such regulations have been shown to limit the ability of low-income households and people of colour to find suitable housing in decent neighbourhoods. Urban containment is an attempt to regulate land uses in ways that reduce if not eliminate social exclusion. This paper uses information from a nation-wide survey of met…
The Effect of Urban Containment and Mandatory Housing Elements on Racial Segregation in Us Metropolitan Areas, 1990–2000
Urban containment and state-imposed mandatory housing elements in comprehensive land use plans attempt to reshape development patterns. Urban containment programs reign in the outward expansion of urban areas by restricting development of rural land outside urban containment boundaries and focusing the regional demand for urban development areas within them. This article assesses the effect of urban containment and mandatory housing elements on t…
Does Growth Management Matter? The Effect of Growth Management on Economic Performance
Growth management attempts to improve the ordering of development to improve outcomes. To taxpayers, growth management promises more efficient delivery of public facilities and services. To developers, growth management promises more certainty. To citizen activists, growth management promises resolution of development problems in advance, instead of on an ad hoc basis. These promises are heroic. Nonetheless, even if only partly successful, commun…
Economic critique of U.S. prime farmland preservation policies
Towards a theory of the American rural residential land market
Structural equation models of VMT growth in US urbanised areas
Vehicle miles travelled (VMT) is a primary performance indicator for land use and transportation, bringing with it both positive and negative externalities. This study updates and refines previous work on VMT in urbanised areas, using recent data, additional metrics and structural equation modelling (SEM). In a cross-sectional model for 2010, population, income and freeway capacity are positively related to VMT, while gasoline prices, development…
Disamenity Influences of Edge Cities on Exurban Land Values: A Theory with Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications
A theory is posed with some empirical support on how the American exurban land market behaves near edge cities. The exurban land market exists beyond the built-up urban area within commuting range of urban employment and service opportunities. It responds differently to proximity to downtown, edge cities and the boundary of urban development. Three relationships between the value of exurban land and these landscape features are theorised and empi…
Demand, Segmentation, and Timing Effects of an Urban Containment Program on Urban Fringe Land Values
Theoretically, urban containment programs will create an additional demand for urban land, reduce the demand for rural land, and segment the urban fringe land market into urban and rural submarkets. However, empirical evidence of these effects is scant. In addition, there is some question of the time it takes the urban fringe land market to internalize the supply restricting effects of urban containment programs. This paper presents evidence of t…
The analytic basis for an effective prime farmland landscape preservation scheme in the U.S.A
Locating Major League Stadiums Where They Can Make a Difference: Empirical Analysis with Implications for All Major Public Venues
The louder policy analysts complain about using public resources to subsidize the construction of new major league sports stadiums, the more subsidies are made, despite empirical evidence showing that public investments in stadiums to lure or keep major league teams have considerable opportunity costs. Policy analysts should consider shifting the emphasis of their work to evaluate where building stadiums would minimize opportunity costs or maximi…
Revitalizing Minority Commercial Areas through Commercial Historic District Designation: A Case Study of Atlanta, Georgia
Historic preservation is one way cities can stimulate the economies of lagging or distressed areas. Owners of commercial properties in historic districts enjoy federal and local tax incentives, grants, and loans, as well as protection of external facades in the district. If historic district designation is associated with price effects, there should be a significant price differential between commercial properties in designated and nondesignated …
Demand, Segmentation, and Timing Effects of an Urban Containment Program on Urban Fringe Land Values
Theoretically, urban containment programs will create an additional demand for urban land, reduce the demand for rural land, and segment the urban fringe land market into urban and rural submarkets. However, empirical evidence of these effects is scant. In addition, there is some question of the time it takes the urban fringe land market to internalize the supply restricting effects of urban containment programs. This paper presents evidence of t…
Towards a theory of the American rural residential land market
Small cities and counties: A guide to managing services
Economic critique of U.S. prime farmland preservation policies
The analytic basis for an effective prime farmland landscape preservation scheme in the U.S.A
The Exurbanization of America and Its Planning Policy Implications
There is considerable evidence of continued population deconcentra tion in the continental United States. It has created, among other things, a new form of development, which we call exurbanization. In this paper we suggest the magnitude of exur banization in both spatial and popu lation terms, identify many of the reasons for the locational behavior of exurban households, and present some notable planning policy impli cations. We ask our plannin…
Revitalizing Minority Commercial Areas through Commercial Historic District Designation: A Case Study of Atlanta, Georgia
Historic preservation is one way cities can stimulate the economies of lagging or distressed areas. Owners of commercial properties in historic districts enjoy federal and local tax incentives, grants, and loans, as well as protection of external facades in the district. If historic district designation is associated with price effects, there should be a significant price differential between commercial properties in designated and nondesignated …
Assessing urban growth management
Disamenity Influences of Edge Cities on Exurban Land Values: A Theory with Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications
A theory is posed with some empirical support on how the American exurban land market behaves near edge cities. The exurban land market exists beyond the built-up urban area within commuting range of urban employment and service opportunities. It responds differently to proximity to downtown, edge cities and the boundary of urban development. Three relationships between the value of exurban land and these landscape features are theorised and empi…
Assessing growth management policy implementation
Metropolitan Governance Structure and Income Growth
There has long been debate on the extent to which the structure of government in metropolitan areas helps or hinders income growth. Polycentrists contend that numerous local governments lead to competition that streamlines government, produces services at least cost, and leads to higher incomes. Centristts argue that large, multiple service governments have scale economies leading to more efficient production of services and hence higher incomes.…
Comparing states with and without growth management Analysis based on indicators with policy implications
Does Growth Management Matter? The Effect of Growth Management on Economic Performance
Growth management attempts to improve the ordering of development to improve outcomes. To taxpayers, growth management promises more efficient delivery of public facilities and services. To developers, growth management promises more certainty. To citizen activists, growth management promises resolution of development problems in advance, instead of on an ad hoc basis. These promises are heroic. Nonetheless, even if only partly successful, commun…
Locating Major League Stadiums Where They Can Make a Difference: Empirical Analysis with Implications for All Major Public Venues
The louder policy analysts complain about using public resources to subsidize the construction of new major league sports stadiums, the more subsidies are made, despite empirical evidence showing that public investments in stadiums to lure or keep major league teams have considerable opportunity costs. Policy analysts should consider shifting the emphasis of their work to evaluate where building stadiums would minimize opportunity costs or maximi…
Urban containment policies and housing prices: An international comparison with implications for future research
The Effect of Urban Containment and Mandatory Housing Elements on Racial Segregation in Us Metropolitan Areas, 1990–2000
Urban containment and state-imposed mandatory housing elements in comprehensive land use plans attempt to reshape development patterns. Urban containment programs reign in the outward expansion of urban areas by restricting development of rural land outside urban containment boundaries and focusing the regional demand for urban development areas within them. This article assesses the effect of urban containment and mandatory housing elements on t…
Urban Containment and Residential Segregation: A Preliminary Investigation
A fundamental purpose of traditional land-use controls is to exclude undesirable land uses from residential communities. However, such regulations have been shown to limit the ability of low-income households and people of colour to find suitable housing in decent neighbourhoods. Urban containment is an attempt to regulate land uses in ways that reduce if not eliminate social exclusion. This paper uses information from a nation-wide survey of met…
The New Urbanity: The Rise of a New America
The period from 2010 to 2030 will see as sweeping a change to America’s metropolitan landscape as the half century after World War II. During the baby boom era, 1946 through 1964, about half of American households were raising children; in 2030, only about a quarter will be. Between 2010 and 2030, the increase in the number of single-person households will be more than double the increase in the number of households with children. A major reason …
Relationship between urban sprawl and physical activity, obesity, and morbidity – Update and refinement
Developing urban and suburban areas in a more compact manner may have some salutary effect on obesity and chronic disease trends
Structural equation models of VMT growth in US urbanised areas
Vehicle miles travelled (VMT) is a primary performance indicator for land use and transportation, bringing with it both positive and negative externalities. This study updates and refines previous work on VMT in urbanised areas, using recent data, additional metrics and structural equation modelling (SEM). In a cross-sectional model for 2010, population, income and freeway capacity are positively related to VMT, while gasoline prices, development…
Growth Management and Urban Planning in the United States
The Social Impacts of Urban Containment
Social Impacts of Urban Containment
Missing Middle Housing: Thinking Big and Building Small to Respond to Today's Housing Crisis
Value capture mechanisms and willingness to pay for urban sustainability: An international systematic review and analysis
Cities worldwide face increasing fiscal pressure as aging infrastructure and rising sustainability demands outpace traditional municipal revenue sources. Value capture mechanisms have emerged as an important approach to financing urban sustainability investments, yet their effectiveness depends on public acceptance of the underlying revenue instruments. This article presents an international systematic review examining how value capture tools, in…
Geography (20 works) · Economics (18 works) · Housing Market and Economics (14 works) · Business (12 works) · Engineering (12 works) · Environmental planning (10 works) · Metropolitan area (10 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (10 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Land use (9 works)