Why do cities grow in population, surface area, and income per person? Which cities grow
faster and why? To these questions, the urban growth literature has offered a variety of …

Why do cities grow in population, surface area, and income per person? Which cities grow
faster and why? To these questions, the urban growth literature has offered a variety of …

This chapter on urbanization and growth focuses on modeling and empirical evidence that
pertain to a number of inter-related questions. Why do cities form in an economy, with so …

The 1990s were an unusually good decade for the largest American cities and, in particular,
for the cities of the Midwest. However, fundamentally urban growth in the 1990s looked …

Why is productivity higher in cities? Does urbanization cause growth or does growth cause
urbanization? Do countries achieve rapid growth or high incomes without urbanization …

Policy makers and academics frequently emphasize a positive link between city size and
economic growth. The empirical literature on the relationship, however, is scarce and uses …

This paper examines the effects of urbanization on development and growth. It begins with a
labor market perspective and emphasizes the importance of agglomeration economies, both …

Why are there persistent differences in income between metropolitan areas? The answer to
this question has evaded much of the scholarship on the topic. Some of the frameworks that …

The 1990s were an unusually good decade for the largest American cities and, in particular,
for the cities of the Midwest. However, fundamentally urban growth in the 1990s looked …

The relative populations of the top 40 urban areas of France and Japan remained very
constant during these countries' periods of industrialization and urbanization, and are …