An understanding of the demand for urban residential land is necessary for many problems
of city structure and growth and for appraising the effects of certain governmental housing …

United States have experienced a gigantic expansion. A number of prob-lems have
accompanied the growth--among them are a transportation lag, ur-ban blight, and urban …

The household's expenditures for" hous-ing" had been a subject of investigation even before
Engel's first systematic budget studies in 1857. Since then, and particularly in the past fifteen …

A number of features of land markets in and around cities are not well explained by existing
theories of the allocation of land. Although there has been a good deal of work on the …

Production theory forms the basis of many models developed to examine urban spatial
structure. The neoclassical concept of the elasticity of substitution between land and non …

Differences among studies in the income con-cept used do not account for much of this
range of results. Recent discussion of the income-housing relation has focused on the …

In the past twenty years economists have invested a great deal of time and effort in empirical
studies of the demand for food, and many estimates of the price and income elasticities of …

Consider: at the center, location rent is $50 and transport costs are zero; at a point midway
between the center and the external margin, rent is $25 and transport costs are $25. If all five …

This paper presents the results of an empirical study of nonresidential urban land values in
the Dallas metropolitan area. The data base consists of 467 vacant land transactions from …

AS POPULATION BECOMES increasingly concentrated within urbanized areas, the space
needed to accommodate this population and its ancillary works continues to mount.? In …