Sprawl and blight

Arbeitspapier

The objective of this paper is to show how the same market failures that contribute to urban sprawl also contribute to urban blight. The paper develops a simple dynamic model in which new suburban and older central-city properties compete for mobile residents. The level of housing services generated by older properties depends on current maintenance or reinvest-ment expenditures. In this setting, market failures that reduce the cost of occupying suburban locations, thus leading to excessive suburban development, also depress central-city housing prices and undermine maintenance incentives, leading to deficient levels of central-city rein-vestment. Corrective policies that shift population from the suburbs to the center result in higher levels of reinvestment in central-city housing, therefore reducing blight.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 2792

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: General
• Subject: urban sprawl ; blight ; market failures ; Urbanisierung ; Stadtzentrum ; Städtischer Niedergang ; Wohnstandort ; Standortwettbewerb ; Marktversagen ; Kommunalplanung ; Theorie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Brueckner, Jan Keith ; Helsley, Robert W.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (where): Munich
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/30565
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET