Compact or Spread-Out Cities: Urban Planning, Taxation, and the Vulnerability to Transportation Shocks
| dc.creator | Gusdorf, Francois | |
| dc.creator | Hallegatte, Stephane | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T20:13:37Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T02:58:20Z | |
| dc.description | This paper shows that cities made more compact by transportation taxation are more robust than spread-out cities to shocks in transportation costs. Such a shock, indeed, entails negative transition effects that are caused by housing infrastructure inertia and are magnified in low-density cities. Distortions due to a transportation tax, however, have in absence of shock detrimental consequences that need to be accounted for. The range of beneficial tax levels can, therefore, be identified as a function of the possible magnitude of future shocks in transportation costs. These taxation levels, which can reach significant values, reduce city vulnerability and prevent lock-ins in under-optimal situations. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.10273 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/10273/files/wp070017.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/10273 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/523947 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
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| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/10273 | |
| dc.title | Compact or Spread-Out Cities: Urban Planning, Taxation, and the Vulnerability to Transportation Shocks | |
| dc.type | Text |