3. Paris is sometimes described as a city-sized museum. Accept the notion that broad restrictions on land use in order to preserve a neighborhood (or city, such as Paris) can sometimes be warranted, but that residents of any particular neighborhood are too inclined to restrict land use to protect the existing neighborhood. Suggest at least one idea for how to legitimately balance these competing goals when determining whether to impose land use restrictions. 4. What is one question or disagreement you have with today’s reading? Class 4 (2/14): The Formation of Urban Spatial Structures: 2 A Simple – Model Linking Markets and Design Indicators Readings Jan K. Brueckner, The Economics of urban sprawl: Theory and Evidence on the Spatial Sizes of Cities, The review of Economics and Statistics, Volume 65, Issue 3 (Aug, 1983) 479-482 Daniel T. McGrath, More evidence on the spatial scale of cities, Journal of Urban Economics 58 (2005) 1–10 Discussion Questions Submit three ideas for your course paper, in order of your preference, along with a few lines to describe each idea. These papers can be on any city planning or economics issue of your choice, but the default idea is to choose a policy issue in a given city (e.g., traffic congestion in Beijing) and to review the facts and development of that city and issue, possibly including policy responses (both tried and untried), costs and benefits of these policy responses, and recommended plans (leaving local politics aside). and Adam will review your three ideas and help you think through which idea will give you the best paper. This exercise is designed to get you to start thinking about topics, but you will not be limited to the topics that you list now when ultimately choosing your paper topic. The best papers will provide you with enough information to apply the course concepts in a context where a fellow classmate would learn something that she would not have otherwise known. In his paper economics of urban sprawl…”, Jan Brueckner conclusions “The are reproduced below:
3. Paris is sometimes described as a city-sized museum. Accept the notion that broad restrictions on land use in order to preserve a neighborhood (or city, such as Paris) can sometimes be warranted, but that residents of any particular neighborhood are too inclined to restrict land use to protect the existing neighborhood. Suggest at least one idea for how to legitimately balance these competing goals when determining whether to impose land use restrictions. 4. What is one question or disagreement you have with today’s reading? Class 4 (2/14): The Formation of Urban Spatial Structures: 2 – A Simple Model Linking Markets and Design Indicators Readings Jan K. Brueckner, The Economics of urban sprawl: Theory and Evidence on the Spatial Sizes of Cities, The review of Economics and Statistics, Volume 65, Issue 3 (Aug, 1983) 479-482 Daniel T. McGrath, More evidence on the spatial scale of cities, Journal of Urban Economics 58 (2005) 1–10 Discussion Questions Submit three ideas for your course paper, in order of your preference, along with a few lines to describe each idea. These papers can be on any city planning or economics issue of your choice, but the default idea is to choose a policy issue in a given city (e.g., traffic congestion in Beijing) and to review the facts and development of that city and issue, possibly including policy responses (both tried and untried), costs and benefits of these policy responses, and recommended plans (leaving local politics aside). and Adam will review your three ideas and help you think through which idea will give you the best paper. This exercise is designed to get you to start thinking about topics, but you will not be limited to the topics that you list now when ultimately choosing your paper topic. The best papers will provide you with enough information to apply the course concepts in a context where a fellow classmate would learn something that she would not have otherwise known. In his paper “The economics of urban sprawl…”, Jan Brueckner conclusions are reproduced below:
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