Alan W Evans
Biographic Data
| ID | 967975 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan W Evans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan W |
| FAMILY NAME | Evans |
| SIGNATURE | EVANS A W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 187 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Flats and Densities in England: A Reply to Barry Goodchild
Housing Densities and Consumer Choice
From 2001, the construction of flats and high-density developments increased in England and the building of houses declined. Does this indicate a change in taste or is it a result of government planning policies? In this paper, an analysis is made of the long-term effects of the policy of constraint which has existed for the past 50 years but the increase in density is identified as occurring primarily after new, revised, planning guidance was is…
The Development of Urban Economics in the Twentieth Century
E VANS A. W. (2003) The development of urban economics in the twentieth century, Reg. Studies 37 , 521-529. This paper was written to mark 25 years of the ESRC Urban and Regional Economics Workshop which began in 1976. The intellectual development of urban economics is traced from its early roots in the writings of Smith and Marshall through to Krugman's economic geography. Institutional developments are also considered with journal development a…
On Minimum Rents: Part 1, Marx and Absolute Rent
Marx suggests that land would not be rented to a tenant at less than some minimum rent which he calls absolute rent. This concept and Marx's arguments are analysed in this paper. It has been argued by some that absolute rent in Marxian economics derives from the fact that investment in agriculture is lower so that the organic composition of capital is lower. It is argued here that the low organic composition of capital in the Marxian schema is ra…
On Minimum Rents: Part 2, A Modern Interpretation
The idea that there might be some minimum rent below which a land-owner would not let to any tenant was put forward by Marx, but with little supporting argument. In this paper, it is shown that the modern concepts and analysis of transaction costs and monitoring costs can explain why such a minimum rent might exist. Further, that risk and uncertainty, coupled with the fact that tenancies are usually for some years, also provide an explanation for…
Dr. Pangloss Finds His Profession: Sustainabiity Transport, and Land Use Planning in Britain
In this paper, I look at the use of land use planning to promote global sustainability by reducing the use of fossil fuels in transport. The first theme of the paper is that land use planning is an inefficient instrument for this purpose and may actually increase the use of fuel. The second theme relates to land use planning in Britain, where sustainability has been seized upon as a justification for existing policies of urban containment. I argu…
Determinants of Journeys to Work in Central London, 1954–93
Determinants of journeys to work in central London, 1954–93
The Impact of Land Use Planning and Tax Subsidies on the Supply and Price of Housing in Britain: A Comment
The Property Market: Ninety Per Cent Efficient
Taxation and the environment: Complementary policies
The Price Determinants of Foreclosed Urban Land: A Discussion
The Economy of an Agglomeration: The Case of London
The development of London over the last 30 years is discussed in the context of Chinitz's seminal paper on major US agglomerations. The optimism originally voiced in the 1960s over the future of major urban agglomerations has not been borne out by experience, for a variety of reasons, some purely economic and some the outcome of policy. Even relative to comparable major European cities, London did worse than would be expected given its industrial…
The Private and Social Costs of Planning Delay
This paper examines planning delay and identifies the difficulty in establishing an appropriate definition and measure of delay. It then outlines an economic framework for the analysis of delay costs, distinguishing between private costs and the various elements of social cost. It shows that the costs of delay are contingent upon the restrictiveness of planning and should be assessed in relation to the benefits of planning control. Available esti…
Road Congestion: The Diagrammatic Analysis
On Differential Rent and Landed Property
Investment Diversion and Equity Release: The Macroeconomic Consequences of Increasing Property Values
The 1970s' argument that investment in land and property diverted finance from 'productive' investment in manufacturing is shown to be fallacious. The seller of property at higher prices will recirculate that investment into productive sectors, and arguments that the distinction between services and manufacturing is important are erroneous. The 1980s' argument that households are able to release their increased equity gain from house price inflat…
Rabbit Hutches on Postage Stamps: Planning, Development and Political Economy
The supply of land for housing has been restricted by planning controls. The prices of land and of houses have risen in consequence. As a result land has been used with increasing intensity with infill, 'town cramming' and smaller houses on less land—'rabbit hutches on postage stamps'; a destruction of the urban environment of the many to preserve a rural environment for a few. Why is the supply of land restricted? Firstly, it is suggested, becau…
Urban Economic Change: Five City Studies
Journal Article Urban Economic Change: Five City Studies Get access Urban Economic Change: Five City Studies. BY VICTOR A. HAUSNER and MEMBERS OF THE ESRC INNER CITIES RESEARCH PROGRAMME. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. Pp. xiii + 263. £25.00 hardback. ISBN 0 19 823280 2.) Alan W. Evans Alan W. Evans University of Reading Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 98, Issue 392, 1 Septemb…
Urban Economics: An Introduction
The Supply of Land: A Pedagogic Comment
Transport Costs and Urban Property Values in the 1970s
In this paper we use data on property values published annually for the 56 local government areas in the Melbourne metropolitan area to investigate the response of the property market to the oil price rises of the seventies. We show that property values appeared to have responded rapidly to the Australian petrol price increase of 1978, more accessible properties gaining in value relative to less accessible. The 1973 increase was not passed on to …
Comparisons of Agglomeration: Or What Chinitz Really Said
The Impact of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link on South East England: Discussion
The Determination of the Price of Land
Received theories of the land market are inadequate, since they ignore the supply of land. It is known that occupiers of land are usually unwilling to sell at the market price but require compensation for being forced to move. Incorporating this as a theory of supply into land market theory allows us to explain or predict that (a) urban sprawl will occur, in the absence of planning controls, (b) a development gains tax will slow down the rate of …
Rabbit Hutches on Postage Stamps: Planning, Development and Political Economy
The supply of land for housing has been restricted by planning controls. The prices of land and of houses have risen in consequence. As a result land has been used with increasing intensity with infill, 'town cramming' and smaller houses on less land—'rabbit hutches on postage stamps'; a destruction of the urban environment of the many to preserve a rural environment for a few. Why is the supply of land restricted? Firstly, it is suggested, becau…
The Location of the Headquarters of Industrial Companies
The Property Market: Ninety Per Cent Efficient
The Determination of the Price of Land
Received theories of the land market are inadequate, since they ignore the supply of land. It is known that occupiers of land are usually unwilling to sell at the market price but require compensation for being forced to move. Incorporating this as a theory of supply into land market theory allows us to explain or predict that (a) urban sprawl will occur, in the absence of planning controls, (b) a development gains tax will slow down the rate of …
On the Theory of the Valuation and Allocation of Time
Urban Unemployment: Interpretation and Additional Evidence
The Inner City: Employment and Industry
Journal Article The Inner City: Employment and Industry Get access The Inner City: Employment and Industry. Edited by Alan Evans And David Eversley. (London: Heinemann, 1980. Pp. xiii + 502. £25.00.) Graham Hallett Graham Hallett University College, Cardiff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 91, Issue 362, 1 June 1981, Pages 563–564, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232616 Published: 01 J…
The Pure Theory of City Size in an Industrial Economy
On Minimum Rents: Part 1, Marx and Absolute Rent
Marx suggests that land would not be rented to a tenant at less than some minimum rent which he calls absolute rent. This concept and Marx's arguments are analysed in this paper. It has been argued by some that absolute rent in Marxian economics derives from the fact that investment in agriculture is lower so that the organic composition of capital is lower. It is argued here that the low organic composition of capital in the Marxian schema is ra…
Road Congestion: The Diagrammatic Analysis
The Role of the Inner City in the Development of Manufacturing Industry
The first section of the paper surveys the evidence relating to the hypothesis that the inner city acts as a nursery for new manufacturing firms and shows that there is little direct confirmatory evidence. The second and third sections report on two research studies of new firm foundation in London. In the first study it is shown that few manufacturing firms have been set up in inner London in recent years, the majority being in the 'inner city i…
The British conurbation centres
Cameron G. C. and Evans A. W. (1973) The British conurbation centres, Reg. Studies 7, 47–55. The economic structures of six British conurbation centres are compared using data on employment from the 1966 Census, and the changes in their economic structures between 1961 and 1966 are compared using data on employment from the 1961 and 1966 Censuses. It is shown that not only were the structures remarkably similar with approximately 75 per cent of t…
Private Good, Externality, Public Good
In two recent investigations into the economic problems of externality the authors have noted in passing that the welfare or optimality conditions in the case of a consumption externality seemed identical with the welfare conditions in the case of public goods as originally stated by Samuelson. 1 The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the welfare conditions for a public good are a special case of the welfare conditions for a consumption…
The Impact of Land Use Planning and Tax Subsidies on the Supply and Price of Housing in Britain: A Comment
On Minimum Rents: Part 2, A Modern Interpretation
The idea that there might be some minimum rent below which a land-owner would not let to any tenant was put forward by Marx, but with little supporting argument. In this paper, it is shown that the modern concepts and analysis of transaction costs and monitoring costs can explain why such a minimum rent might exist. Further, that risk and uncertainty, coupled with the fact that tenancies are usually for some years, also provide an explanation for…
The Private and Social Costs of Planning Delay
This paper examines planning delay and identifies the difficulty in establishing an appropriate definition and measure of delay. It then outlines an economic framework for the analysis of delay costs, distinguishing between private costs and the various elements of social cost. It shows that the costs of delay are contingent upon the restrictiveness of planning and should be assessed in relation to the benefits of planning control. Available esti…
On Differential Rent and Landed Property
The Supply of Land: A Pedagogic Comment
Housing Densities and Consumer Choice
From 2001, the construction of flats and high-density developments increased in England and the building of houses declined. Does this indicate a change in taste or is it a result of government planning policies? In this paper, an analysis is made of the long-term effects of the policy of constraint which has existed for the past 50 years but the increase in density is identified as occurring primarily after new, revised, planning guidance was is…
Economic Influences on Social Mix
The Development of Urban Economics in the Twentieth Century
E VANS A. W. (2003) The development of urban economics in the twentieth century, Reg. Studies 37 , 521-529. This paper was written to mark 25 years of the ESRC Urban and Regional Economics Workshop which began in 1976. The intellectual development of urban economics is traced from its early roots in the writings of Smith and Marshall through to Krugman's economic geography. Institutional developments are also considered with journal development a…
The Economy of an Agglomeration: The Case of London
The development of London over the last 30 years is discussed in the context of Chinitz's seminal paper on major US agglomerations. The optimism originally voiced in the 1960s over the future of major urban agglomerations has not been borne out by experience, for a variety of reasons, some purely economic and some the outcome of policy. Even relative to comparable major European cities, London did worse than would be expected given its industrial…
Transport Costs and Urban Property Values in the 1970s
In this paper we use data on property values published annually for the 56 local government areas in the Melbourne metropolitan area to investigate the response of the property market to the oil price rises of the seventies. We show that property values appeared to have responded rapidly to the Australian petrol price increase of 1978, more accessible properties gaining in value relative to less accessible. The 1973 increase was not passed on to …
Comparisons of Agglomeration: Or What Chinitz Really Said
Notes on the Changing Relationship between Registered Unemployment and Notified Vacancies: 1961-1966 And 1966-1971
It is well known that there was a noticeable upward shift in unemployment relative to vacancies starting in late 1966. A number of explanations for this shift have been put forward. It has variously been attributed to (i) people choosing to remain unemployed for longer periods because of the introduction of earnings-related unemployment benefit in September 1966 and the operation of the Redundancy Payments Act which came into effect in December 1…
Two Economic Rules for Town Planning: A Critical Note
Two Economic Rules for Town Planning: A Reply
Private Good, Externality, Public Good
In two recent investigations into the economic problems of externality the authors have noted in passing that the welfare or optimality conditions in the case of a consumption externality seemed identical with the welfare conditions in the case of public goods as originally stated by Samuelson. 1 The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the welfare conditions for a public good are a special case of the welfare conditions for a consumption…
Definitions and Welfare Conditions of Public Goods: A Reply
The Pure Theory of City Size in an Industrial Economy
A Linear Programming Solution To the Shopping Problem Posed By R. W. Bacon
On the Theory of the Valuation and Allocation of Time
The Economics of Residential Location
The Location of the Headquarters of Industrial Companies
Measuring the total impact of a new factory in Furness: A Markovian approach
Measuring the total impact of a new factory in Furness: A Markovian approach." Regional Studies, 7(4), pp. 407–408
The British conurbation centres
Cameron G. C. and Evans A. W. (1973) The British conurbation centres, Reg. Studies 7, 47–55. The economic structures of six British conurbation centres are compared using data on employment from the 1966 Census, and the changes in their economic structures between 1961 and 1966 are compared using data on employment from the 1961 and 1966 Censuses. It is shown that not only were the structures remarkably similar with approximately 75 per cent of t…
The Economics of Residential Location
Journal Article A. W. Evans. The Economics of Residential Location.P. A. Stone. Urban Development in Britain: Standards, Costs and Resources 1964 2004P. A. Stone. The Structure, Size and Costs of Urban Settlements Get access The Economics of Residential Location. By A. W. Evans. (London: Macmillan, 1973. Pp. xii + 281. £7.00.)Urban Development in Britain: Standards, Costs and Resources 1964 2004. Volume I. Population Trends and Housing. By P. A. …
Spatial and Social Constraints in the Inner City: A Symposium: Discussion
Economic Influences on Social Mix
Notes on the Changing Relationship between Registered Unemployment and Notified Vacancies: 1961-1966 And 1966-1971
It is well known that there was a noticeable upward shift in unemployment relative to vacancies starting in late 1966. A number of explanations for this shift have been put forward. It has variously been attributed to (i) people choosing to remain unemployed for longer periods because of the introduction of earnings-related unemployment benefit in September 1966 and the operation of the Redundancy Payments Act which came into effect in December 1…
Capital Markets and the Housing Sector: Perspectives on Financial Reform
A Methodological Note on the Use of Regression Equations for the Purpose of Simulating Change in Urban Location Patterns
Econometric models are often used to simulate the effects of changes in an economy by altering the value(s) of some independent variable(s). It is shown in this paper that although this technique is usual in the study of nonspatial economies, the same methods used in urban spatial modelling may merely result in predictions which are due more to the properties of regression than to those of the urban economy. Work done by Kain and by Granfield in …
The Role of the Inner City in the Development of Manufacturing Industry
The first section of the paper surveys the evidence relating to the hypothesis that the inner city acts as a nursery for new manufacturing firms and shows that there is little direct confirmatory evidence. The second and third sections report on two research studies of new firm foundation in London. In the first study it is shown that few manufacturing firms have been set up in inner London in recent years, the majority being in the 'inner city i…
Urban Unemployment: Interpretation and Additional Evidence
The Inner City: Employment and Industry
Journal Article The Inner City: Employment and Industry Get access The Inner City: Employment and Industry. Edited by Alan Evans And David Eversley. (London: Heinemann, 1980. Pp. xiii + 502. £25.00.) Graham Hallett Graham Hallett University College, Cardiff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 91, Issue 362, 1 June 1981, Pages 563–564, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232616 Published: 01 J…
The Determination of the Price of Land
Received theories of the land market are inadequate, since they ignore the supply of land. It is known that occupiers of land are usually unwilling to sell at the market price but require compensation for being forced to move. Incorporating this as a theory of supply into land market theory allows us to explain or predict that (a) urban sprawl will occur, in the absence of planning controls, (b) a development gains tax will slow down the rate of …
The Supply of Land: A Pedagogic Comment
Transport Costs and Urban Property Values in the 1970s
In this paper we use data on property values published annually for the 56 local government areas in the Melbourne metropolitan area to investigate the response of the property market to the oil price rises of the seventies. We show that property values appeared to have responded rapidly to the Australian petrol price increase of 1978, more accessible properties gaining in value relative to less accessible. The 1973 increase was not passed on to …
Comparisons of Agglomeration: Or What Chinitz Really Said
The Impact of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link on South East England: Discussion
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