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Spatial aspects of housing quality, density, and maintenance

Article Abstract:

Variations in housing quality, maintenance, and structural density (as well as in household income, by location) are studied for situations in which the housing stock is durable. Previous research in this area has used restrictive models. A model is developed to describe landlord-builder behavior, by allowing the unrestricted construction of maintenance policy. The model is used to explore spatial aspects of the filtering process in stationary-state housing markets. The robust results of the earlier research is examined as well. Among the findings of the current research are: that structural density diminishes with distance from the city center, and that housing maintained at near-constant quality is found near the city center.

Housing, Housing research, Urban economics, Population density

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Comparative statics analysis of a fully closed city

Article Abstract:

Research has indicated that as an urban area's population increases, the size of the city will shrink. Existing literature on this subject holds the opposite viewpoint. Extended comparative statics analysis are discussed for open, semi-closed and fully closed urban areas (a fully closed urban area is one in which the land rent is redistributed to the local population). Changing exogenous variables (population size, rent rates for agricultural land and endowments) is shown to affect endogenous factors (welfare levels, size of the area and rent schedules). Results of the research also indicate that, in certain circumstances, the demand for public transportation in city areas decreases as the price for such services decreases.

Research, Economic aspects, Cities and towns, Metropolitan areas, Local transit

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Optimum, second-best, and market allocations of resources within an urban area

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Use of a simple urban model defines first-best, second-best, and market resource allocations - results influences by transportation congestion.

City planning, Urban planning

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