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Lessons from Urban Expansion in Cairo
The map below, from the Lincoln Institute’s Atlas of Urban Expansion (in print and online), shows the urban expansion of Cairo, Egypt from 1800-2000. According to UP scholar Solly Angel, Cairo’s growth...
View ArticleLand Use Regulations and Declining Convergence
Virginia Postrel brings attention to an interesting new working paper by Peter Ganong and Daniel Shoag: “Why has Regional Convergence in the U.S. Stopped?” From 1880 to 1980, the United States...
View ArticleInternal Migration, Convergence, & the Mortgage Interest Deduction
In his latest Bloomberg Businessweek column, Charles Kenny discusses the importance of internal migration to economic development: China alone has 140 million internal migrants, for example—most moved...
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Alain Bertaud on Parallel Housing Markets
Thanks to UP Senior Scholar Alain Bertaud for leading this week’s brown bag discussion on parallel housing markets in rapidly growing cities. Alain described how well-intentioned government...
View ArticleGrain Self-Sufficiency & Housing Affordability in China
The Winter 2012 issue of the Journal of Architectural and Planning Research includes a paper by UP scholar Alain Bertaud: “Government Intervention and Urban Land Markets: The Case of China.” In it, he...
View ArticleHow to Bid High Housing Costs ADU
The NYU Wagner Innovation Labs teamed up with the Center for an Urban Future to produce Innovation and the City, a useful new report for the next mayor of New York City. The report highlights 15...
View ArticleUP Links — 26 June 2013
Ricardo Hausmann on Land Use Policies & the Persistence of the Informal Economy …in order to get together to work, people have to travel from their homes to production sites. How do they do that?...
View ArticleUP Links — 11 July 2013
Josh Barro on Why Rent is So High in NYC (ht to Jon) Take a look at this zoning map of the East Village, a popular neighborhood in Manhattan. Most of the neighborhood consists of R7A and R8B zones....
View ArticleHousing in China: Large vs Small Cities
One of the newsletters I follow on China is Dragonomics, from GK Research. The head of research there, Arthur Kroeber, has a good command of economic theory but still shows his roots in journalism. His...
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