Urban Sprawl and the Cost of Public Services

By John I. Carruthers, Gudmundur F. Ulfarsson. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Transportation

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Compactness versus Sprawl (2015, background): “‘‘Urban Sprawl and the Cost of Public Services.’’”
The economic effects of density: A synthesis (2019, positive): “The per capita expenditures on local public services are from Carruthers & Ulfarsson (2003).”
Growth at the fringe: The influence of political fragmentation in United States metropolitan areas (2003, background): “Among the most common complaints are the excessive commuting and transportation costs, increased cost of infrastructure and other public services, socioeconomic segregation, and rapid consumption of natural open space associated with far-flung development patterns (Knaap and Nelson 1992; Downs 1994;”
Urban Structure and Energy—A Review (2008, background): “More research is needed in this area, as it is still far from clear whether infrastructure costs decrease monotonically with density, as found by Carruthers and Ulfarsson (2003), or whether it is, as we suggest, U-shaped.”
Accessibility in Cities: Transport and Urban Form (2017, background): “Existing evidence suggests that key urban infrastructure (particularly linear and networked infrastructures such as streets, railways, water and sewage systems and other utilities) comes at considerably lower cost per unit at higher levels of urban density (Carruthers and Ulfarsson 2003).”
Does Urban Sprawl Increase the Costs of Providing Local Public Services? Evidence from Spanish Municipalities (2010, positive): “sense, the increasing provision costs of public goods and services, as well as additional consequences related to urban sprawl, have been used by critics of this phenomenon to justify the use of growth control programmes and co-operation policies among jurisdictions that promote more compact urban a”
Does `Smart Growth' Matter to Public Finance? (2008, methodology): “* is in natural log form (Carruthers and Úlfarsson 2003) and so is its spatial lag, We ; s denotes each of the ten measures of public spending; Φ represents a vector of state fixed effects, including”
Housing and transport expenditure: Socio-spatial indicators of affordability in Auckland (2014, background): “…there are other negative externalities associated with urban fringe development beyond those related to transport, including greater per capita cost of infrastructure and other public service provision, as well as the loss of rural amenity values (Brueckner, 2000; Carruthers & Ulfarsson, 2003).”
Developing a Method to Assessing the Municipal Financial Health (2013, neutral): “…different perspectives and 746 American Review of Public Administration 43(6) with varying results (Benito & Bastida, 2004; Bastida et al., 2009; Clark et al., 1994; Carruthers & Úlfarsson, 2003, 2008; Ladd, 1994; Ladd & Yinger, 1989; Passel, 1994; Smith & Edmonston, 1997; Zafra, 2009a, 2009b).”