Causes of Sprawl
A Portrait from Space
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23337271 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marcy Burchfield (ASIS Foundation), Henry G Overman (0000-0002-3525-7629, London School of Economics and Political Science), Diego Puga (0000-0003-4013-5375, Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Matthew A Turner (0000-0001-7421-4552, University of Toronto) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 121 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 587-633 |
| Publication date | 2006-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Quarterly Journal of Economics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-5533 • E-ISSN: 1531-4650 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/qjec.2006.121.2.587 |
| OpenAlex | W2000192806 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 208 |
| References cited | 38 |
We study the extent to which U. S. urban development is sprawling and what determines differences in sprawl across space. Using remote-sensing data to track the evolution of land use on a grid of 8.7 billion 30 × 30 meter cells, we measure sprawl as the amount of undeveloped land surrounding an average urban dwelling. The extent of sprawl remained roughly unchanged between 1976 and 1992, although it varied dramatically across metropolitan areas. Ground water availability, temperate climate, rugged terrain, decentralized employment, early public transport infrastructure, uncertainty about metropolitan growth, and unincorporated land in the urban fringe all increase sprawl.
Cartography · Civil engineering · Economic geography · Geography · Land development · Land use · Metropolitan area · Terrain · Urban sprawl · Engineering · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Spatial and Panel Data Analysis
Simulation on the Evolution Trend of the Urban Sprawl Spatial Pattern in the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River, China
Introduction – Housing
Comment – On building typologies of housing systems in the OECD
Does issuing building permits reduce the cost of land? An estimation based on the demand for building land in France
An evaluation of the methods used by European countries to compute their official house price indices
Building a typology of housing systems to inform policies in OECD and EU member States
Consumption, household portfolios and the housing market in France
Rising inequalities in access to home ownership among young households in France, 1973-2013
Anatomía de la dispersión urbana en Barcelona
Espraiamento urbano e periferização da pobreza na região metropolitana de São Paulo
Roads, Railroads, and Decentralization of Chinese Cities
The Geographic Determinants of Housing Supply
Transport Policies and Development
Cultural Distance and Internal Migration
Urbanization and agricultural productivity
Spatial Heterogeneity, Accessibility, and Zoning
Urban Decentralization, Suburbanization, and Sprawl
The Built Environment and Obesity
A century of sprawl in the United States
The Area and Population of Cities
Cities in Bad Shape
Understanding an urbanizing planet
Zoning For and Against Sprawl
The evolution of urban sprawl
Urban sprawl and fragmentation in Latin America
Compactness versus Sprawl
Urban sprawl in China
How does sprawl differ across cities in China? A multi-scale investigation using nighttime light and census data
Urban Growth and Transportation
A Toolkit for Measuring Sprawl
The Fundamental Law of Road Congestion
Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space
Urban sprawl, compact urban development and green cities. How much do we know, how much do we agree?
The anthropogenic sealing of soils in urban areas
Multidimensional urban sprawl in Europe
Urban form and air quality in the United States
Characterizing the relationship between land use land cover change and land surface temperature
The impact of urban form on U.S. residential energy use
The Magnitude and Causes of Agglomeration Economies
Suburbanization and transportation in European cities
The impact of highways on population redistribution
A major shift in U.S. land development avoids significant losses in forest and agricultural land
Accommodating the Rise in Urbanisation
Why an economic core
Commute costs and labor supply
Government-directed urban growth, firm entry, and industrial land prices in Chinese cities
Market potential and firm-level productivity in Spain
Colonial legacies
Shaping gender inequality in urban geometric divergence
Automobiles and urban density
Local economic conditions and the nature of new housing supply
Entrepreneurship, small businesses and economic growth in cities
Testing the monocentric standard urban model in a global sample of cities
The Impact of Urban Sprawl on Environmental Pollution
An Empirical Analysis of Urban Form, Transport, and Global Warming
The Association Between Urbanisation and Household Food Security in Nigeria
Residents’ perceptions of urban densification and health – a systems dynamics approach
The Impact of Urban Land Use Patterns on the Synergy of Pollution Reduction and Carbon Mitigation
Plugging in for cities
Determinants of urban sprawl in Latin America
Geographical and Economic Factors Affecting the Spatial Distribution of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises
Best linear and quadratic moments for spatial econometric models with an application to spatial interdependence patterns of employment growth in US counties
In Search of the Missing Middle
Growth and decline in rural Spain
The shape compactness of urban footprints
Fifty years of local growth management in America
From an agent-based laboratory to the real world
Assessing the divergent impacts of urban shrinkage on carbon emissions
Visual Capital
Comparing cities in developed and developing countries
Can price regulation increase land-use intensity? Evidence from China's industrial land market
Determinants of Urban land development
Is higher-quality land developed earlier
The impact of urban proximity, transport accessibility and policy on urban growth
Does metropolitan form affect transportation sustainability? Evidence from US metropolitan areas
How will innovation-driven development policy affect sustainable urban land use
The impact of new urbanization on PM2.5 concentration based on spatial spillover effects
On the sustainability of electric vehicles
The imprint of urbanization on PM2.5 concentrations in China
Diffusion or coalescence? Urban growth pattern and change in 363 Chinese cities from 1995 to 2015
Regional Projection of the Agglomeration Economy in Russia
Structural, Institutional, and Spatial Factors of Operation of Enterprises in Novosibirsk Oblast
Exploring the effect of compact development policy to urban quality of life in Bandung, Indonesia
Symposium – Built Up
Modeling spatial friction in mountainous cities
Is there an agglomeration economy in Eastern Russia
Urban sprawl and productivity
Drivers of urban sprawl in urban areas of Iran
Urban sprawl and firm green total factor productivity
Closed vs. open city models
Real options, housing price risk, and urban sprawl
The effects of highways on school segregation
Walled cities and urban density in China
Urban sprawl and municipal budgets in Spain
Warehouse location choice
Assessment of the socio-spatial effects of urban transport investment using Google Maps API
A multi-decade longitudinal analysis of transportation and land use co-evolution in the Greater Toronto-Hamilton Area
Are workers' commutes sensitive to changes in the labour market situation
Impacts of two-scale urban form and their combined effects on commute modes in U.S. metropolitan areas
Comparing the impacts of local land use and urban spatial structure on household VMT and GHG emissions
Location and Land Use
Economics of Agglomeration
Economic growth in a cross-section of cities
On the Internal Structure of Cities
Chapter 48 Micro-foundations of urban agglomeration economies
A comparative static analysis of urban spatial structure
Chapter 56 Sprawl and urban growth
Multiple equilibria and structural transition of non-monocentric urban configurations
The United States as a Coastal Nation
The Effects of Open Space on Residential Property Values
Chapter 49 Evidence on the nature and sources of agglomeration economies
Spatial landscape indices in a hedonic framework
Consumer city
Interacting agents, spatial externalities and the evolution of residential land use patterns
Urban evolution in the USA
The value of open spaces in residential land use
Cross-Sectional Evolution of the U.S. City Size Distribution
Spatial patterns of urban growth
The stochastic city
Redevelopment and the Urban Land Price Gradient
Growth, speculation and sprawl in a monocentric city
Journal of Urban Economics 62 (1) (2007)
Landscape preferences and patterns of residential development
Urban Development with Lags
The Rise and Decline of the American Ghetto
A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures
The Transition of Land to Urban Use
An Economic Theory of Clubs
Cities, regions and the decline of transport costs
The Causes of Metropolitan Suburbanization
| Unique citing works | 208 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 10,4 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 194 |