In this paper I sketch key episodes in the two thousand year history of interactions between society and environment that have shaped the City of London and its hinterlands.
A housing lottery in an Indian city provided winning slum dwellers the opportunity to move into improved housing on the city’s periphery.
What limits should be placed on the public power to take private property? Ten years ago, when the Supreme Court heard the case of Kelo v.
A modest approximation by homebuyers leads house prices to display three features that are present in the data but usually missing from perfectly rational models: momentum at one-year horizons, mean r
Sensible regulatory requirements can reduce illnesses and accidents, protect the environment, and maintain quality of life.
Large retailers have significant positive spillovers on nearby businesses, and both private and public mechanisms exist to attract them.
The great transition from farm to city is filled with economic, social, and political promise. Cities are the product of a triad of forces.
Conventional wisdom held that housing prices couldn’t fall.
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