The Encyclopedia of the City focuses on the key topics encountered by undergraduates and
scholars in urban studies and allied fields. Contributors include major theoreticians and …

Vacancy chain theory suggests that mobility opportunities spread within and between
specific states, typically flowing from attractive to less attractive units, with households …

Vacancy chains involve unique patterns of resource acquisition behaviors that determine
how reusable resources are distributed through animal populations. Shell vacancy chains …

The authors explore a new framework for evaluating economic development projects. This
framework is based on a job-chain approach. Each new job created by an economic …

The importance of physical resources in influencing life chances makes the study of
resource allocation processes and rules especially pertinent and this leads naturally to the …

This article explores the relationships between the characteristics of urban social spaces
and the housing market reflected in terms of housing price differential. Using the techniques …

There have been increasing calls for studies of housing systems that are more integrative
and pluralistic in nature. Understanding the relationship of social housing systems to the …

The focus of this report is on the predictive accuracy of residential vacancy chain models.
There are two objectives. The first is to define the mathematical structure of a pair of …

Residential vacancy chain models simulate the transfer of vacant housing opportunities
among sectors of an urban housing market. The Markov model simulates forward-reaching …

Local housing markets are typically “thin”. This implies that vacant housing units are a
scarce resource in the local housing market. Vacancy chain models constitute a class of …