We provide an integrated treatment of the theoretical literature on urban land use inspired by
the monocentric model, including extensions that deal with multiple endogenous business …

This book examines the economic reasons why people choose to live where they live and
develops, through analysis of the bid rent function, a unified theory of urban land use and …

The Connected City explores how thinking about networks helps make sense of modern
cities: what they are, how they work, and where they are headed. Cities and urban life can …

As part of a discussion on urban economics, Part 1 of the book reviews the development of
economic equilibrium theory concerning the housing market and incorporating stochastic …

This paper analyzes the impacts and the welfare costs of building-height restrictions. The
theoretical analysis demonstrates that a height restriction causes a city to expand spatially, a …

We estimate the effects of highways on the suburbanization of Spanish cities. Based on
Spain's historical roads–the almost 2000 years old Roman roads and the 1760 Bourbon …

I investigate the effect of improvements to the transportation infrastructure on changes in
location patterns of population in Barcelona, Spain between 1991 and 2006. At a census …

Local authorities worldwide have been pursuing transit-oriented development (TOD)
strategies in order to increase transit ridership, curb traffic congestion, and rejuvenate urban …

This paper presents a version of the monocentric city model that incorporates
heterogeneous commuting speeds by introducing radial commuting highways. This model …

Modeling households' residential choices is one of the greatest challenges of land use–
transport interaction modeling. And although the very structure of UrbanSim conditions to …