Suburbanization and highways in Spain when the Romans and the Bourbons still shape its cities

García-López, Miquel-Àngel; Holl, Adelheid; Viladecans‐Marsal, Elisabet

doi:10.1016/j.jue.2014.11.002

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“…For urbanisation, or non-sectoral agglomeration, proxies are often used (e.g Ades and Glaeser 1994),. in particular in the literature on infrastructure and urban growth(Garcia-López et al 2015).…”

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Spatial correlations exist for many economic phenomena. We also know such interactions are typically weaker across country borders than within countries, due to institutional, infrastructural or cultural factors. However, in spatial econometric analyses, the effect of borders is rarely taken into account, and all borders between regions are treated as equal. We distinguish between different types of borders by splitting our weight matrix in two, and creating separate lags for within-country and cross-border effects. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this method in an analysis of average productivity in a region for several manufacturing sectors. Without implying causality, we relate this productivity to average productivity in surrounding regions as well as to agglomeration externalities both in its own region and in surrounding regions. We find border effects are indeed quite present: spatial lags within the country are invariably different from those across borders.

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“…García-López et al (2015) have looked into the effects of highways on urbanization patterns in Spain. They have found that a highway leading from a central city caused an 8 to 9 per cent decline in the central city population between 1960 and 2011.…”

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Skilled Cities and Efficient Urban Transport

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This chapter surveys the fundamental forces that drive the formation and size of cities. We discuss the different types of agglomeration economies generated by a dense web of activities, with special emphasis on the benefits associated with the clustering of highly skilled workers. The distribution of activities within cities results from the trade-off between commuting and housing costs. We show that in this trade-off commuting costs are the cause and land rent is the consequence. The land rent capitalizes the advantages associated with proximity to particular urban locations such as employment centres. We identify the main sources of inefficiency in various urban policies implemented in Europe. Special attention is paid to the regulation of the land market and the pricing of urban transport. 9.

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“…Our study is also related to recent empirical studies that have examined other aspects of transportation infrastructure. Sharing our intrametropolitan approach, some papers focus on the effect of rail or road transportation on the suburbanization process, both in the United States (Baum‐Snow, ) and in Europe (Garcia‐López, Holl, & Viladecans‐Marsal, ; Garcia‐López, Pasidis, & Viladecans‐Marsal, ), while other studies, conducted at the county level, consider alternative outcomes, such as workers' earnings (Michaels, ) or employment growth (Jiwattanakulpaisarn, Noland, Graham, & Polak, ). Duranton and Turner () and Hsu and Zhang () provide intermetropolitan evidence for the effect of highway improvements on congestion in the United States and Japan, respectively.…”

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“…For instance, Duranton and Turner () instrument road infrastructure using the U.S. railway network at the end of the 19th century and the routes taken by major expeditions of the United States between 1518 and 1850; Hsu and Zhang () rely on the 1890 railway network plan and the planned national express way extension as exogenous sources of variation of highway location in Japan; and Garcia‐López et al. () use the Roman roads and the 1760 Postal routes as instruments for Spanish highways. Our empirical strategy follows this approach, as we rely on two historical instruments, the 1870 railways and the Roman roads, as a source of exogenous variation of current infrastructure' location.…”

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How does transportation shape intrametropolitan growth? An answer from the Regional Express Rail

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2017

Journal of Regional Science

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International audienceThis paper analyzes the influence of transportation infrastructure, and in particular of the Regional Express Rail (RER), on employment and population growth in the Paris metropolitan area between 1968 and 2010. In order to make proper causal inference, we rely on historical instruments and control for all other transportation modes that could be complement or substitute to the RER. Our results show that proximity to an RER station increases employment and population density and, in particular, employment and population growth. The latter effects are higher in municipalities located near RER stations and close to employment (sub)centers. They are also found to be particularly strong for jobs in the service sector, for factory workers, and for highly educated population. We find no impact of the RER expansion on employment growth during the first part of the period, while the effect on population growth appears earlier but declines over time

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Suburbanization and highways in Spain when the Romans and the Bourbons still shape its cities

Cited by 144 publications

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