The Economics of Urban Density
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4029239 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gilles Duranton (0000-0002-5261-9927, Gilles Duranton is Dean’s Chair in Real Estate Professor at Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His email address is .), Diego Puga (0000-0003-4013-5375, Diego Puga is Professor of Economics at Cemfi (Center for Monetary and Financial Studies), Madrid, Spain. His email address is .) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 3-26 |
| Publication date | 2020-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0895-3309 • E-ISSN: 1944-7965 |
| Publisher | American Economic Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1257/jep.34.3.3 |
| OpenAlex | W3027676305 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 104 |
| References cited | 18 |
Density boosts productivity and innovation, improves access to goods and services, reduces typical travel distances, encourages energy efficient construction and transport, and allows broader sharing of scarce urban amenities. However, density is also synonymous with crowding and makes living and moving in cities more costly. We explore the appropriate measurement of density and describe how it is both a cause and a consequence of the evolution of cities. We then discuss whether and how policy should target density and why, in practice, the tradeoff between its pros and cons is unhappily resolved by both market and political forces
Crowding · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Political science · Politics · Productivity · Public economics · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Law · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Spatial and Panel Data Analysis
Health interventions do not cause Malthusian conflict dynamics
Building Density Thresholds and Urban Liveability
Temperature extremes and urban innovation activities
A politics of density
Digitizing the physical prey
Private-public wage gap and return to experience
Co-location of skill-related suppliers
Cities, innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems
Accounting for spatial economic interactions at local and meso scales in integrated assessment model (IAM) frameworks
Shaping gender inequality in urban geometric divergence
Can bigger cities be safer? Evidence from criminal indictment data in China
Accessibility and population patterns
Who gains from agglomeration? The wage, productivity, and cost effects of transport improvements on firms and workers
The implications of a land value tax on urban agglomeration dynamics
Fifty years of population concentration
The power of regional centrality
The urban paradox and the primacy of good governance in Ethiopia
Concentration or decentralization? Evidence from the density functions of urban economic activities
Operationalising ‘integral density’
Analysing the willingness of real estate developers to densify and increase social inclusion
Older Households Are Moving Closer to Their Adult Children
Density as an indicator of sustainable urban development
Growth and decline in rural Spain
Social Transfers and Spatial Distortions
Territorial income differences and dynamics within Latin American countries
Cash rules everything around me
Spillover effects of accessory dwelling unit development
Optimization of regulation and fiscal policies for urban residential land use and traffic network management
Transportation and housing markets in cities
Comparing cities in developed and developing countries
Agglomeration economies in developing countries
Teleworking and housing demand
Finding a better job
Disparities in Covid-19 risk exposure
Covid-19, cities and inequality
Reshaping inequalities in subjective well-being across multiple urban contexts
On the peripheral-urban wage gap in Germany
How does population agglomeration influence the adoption of new energy vehicles? Evidence from 290 cities in China
Where did it hit harder? Understanding the geography of excess mortality during the Covid‐19 pandemic
Geography and regional economic growth
Lights out
Who partners up? Homogamy and income inequality in New Zealand cities
Cities in a pandemic
The spatial distribution of population in Spain
The impact of the spatial population distribution on economic growth
Spatial wage disparities and human capital externalities in France
Will coronavirus cause a big city exodus
To inhibit or to promote
The impact of agglomeration on CO2 emissions in China's transport sector
Quantifying the trends and affecting factors of CO2 emissions under different urban development patterns
More economic diversity, less vulnerability? The case of Quito
Polycentric Spatial Structure, Agglomeration, and Urban Innovation
Proximity Features
Are Cities in Advanced Countries Saturated in Population Size
Urban density, household overcrowding and the spread of Covid-19 in Australian cities
Do agglomeration economies affect firms’ returns to training? Evidence based on French industrial firms
Urban crisis vs. urban success in the era of 4.0 technologies
Quantifying urban sprawl and investigating the cause-effect links among urban sprawl factors, commuting modes, and time
Air pollution, health, migration, and innovation
A method for defining dispersed community territories
The effectiveness of entry deregulation
Slums and pandemics
Beyond the blame game
Spatial Internet Spillovers in Manufacturing
Does urbanization increase inequality? Race, gender, and the urban wage premium
Outward and upward construction
Advancing in-neighborhood micromobility networks
Density where it should be
Exploring the nexus between spatial configuration of urban agglomerations and land use efficiency
An introduction and précis of the topical collection
The targeting incidence of Brazil’s Vale Transporte transit subsidy scheme
Unveiling the coupling relationship between city size and economic efficiency of urban land use in China
Agglomeration economies and urban mobility in developing countries
Expanding the doughnut? Spatial changes in housing demand since the rise of remote work
Territorial market power as a source of inequalities in the automation era
A new agent-based model offers insight into population-wide adoption of prosocial common-pool behavior
Delimitation of rural and urban areas from spatial data in statistical grids
From agglomeration to downgrading
Policy for whom? The heterogeneous effects of innovation policy on urban economy
Promoting or inhibiting? New-type urbanization and urban carbon emissions efficiency in China
Covid-19 and the city
Population agglomeration, borrowed size and urban economic growth in China
Spatial Signatures - Understanding (urban) spaces through form and function
How does intra-city spatial structure influence green economic efficiency? A nonlinear and spatial spillover perspective
The impacts of urban vitality and urban density on innovation
Agglomeration phenomena and evolutionary patterns of contemporary architectural interventions in traditional villages
Developing a population grid in a historical context
Assessing the economic impact of innovative cities
JUE insight
Definition matters. Metropolitan areas and agglomeration economies in a large-developing country
Does urban development influence crime? Evidence from Philadelphia’s new zoning regulations
City characteristics, land prices and volatility
Will you follow your job to the suburbs
Strategies and consequences of local fiscal consolidation
Housing market with informal density agglomeration
Remote working and the new geography of local service spending
Does distance promote consumption
Neighborhood Economic Change in an Era of Metropolitan Divergence
Aglomeración y coaglomeración de las empresas de base tecnológica en el espacio intrametropolitano de Toluca, 2010-2020
Geografía del empleo y distribución intraurbana de la población en ciudades mexicanas
Economics of Agglomeration
Real Wage Inequality
Firm Sorting and Agglomeration
Learning by Working in Big Cities
The Economics of Density
Chapter 49 Evidence on the nature and sources of agglomeration economies
The Magnitude and Causes of Agglomeration Economies
Geographic Localization of Knowledge Spillovers as Evidenced by Patent Citations
Spatial wage disparities
Communication externalities in cities
The economic effects of density
Shopping externalities and retail concentration
The vertical city
Marshall's scale economies
Identifying Agglomeration Spillovers
Wages, Rents, and the Quality of Life
Urban density and the rate of invention
| Unique citing works | 104 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 17,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 98 |