Causes of Sprawl: A Portrait from Space

By Marcy Burchfield, Henry G. Overman, Diego Puga, Matthew A. Turner. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change

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California Dreamin’: The Feeble Case for Cluster Policies (2011, background): “Portland and Seattle score very high on the sprawl measure of Burchfield et al. (2006).”
Natural amenities, neighborhood dynamics, and persistence in the spatial distribution of income (2013, neutral): “Another exception is Burchfield et al. (2006), who show that sprawl—the amount of undeveloped land surrounding an average dwelling—varies across cities according to the presence of available aquifers on the suburban fringe and hilly terrain.”
The Fundamental Law of Road Congestion: Evidence from US Cities (2011, positive): “Sprawl is the measure of sprawl calculated in Burchfield et al. (2006) and measures the share of undeveloped land in the square kilometer surrounding an average structure.”
Cost of potential emerald ash borer damage in U.S (2010, methodology): “The developed land classes in the NLCD 2001 have been used extensively to estimate land cover associated with urban development (e.g., Brown et al., 2005; Burchfield et al., 2006).”
Cities in Bad Shape: Urban Geometry in India (2020, result): “These conditions translate into the following predictions: d log(N) d log(A) > 0, d log(N) d log(θ) > 0, d log(N) d log(L) > 0 (16) d log(W ) d log(A) > 0, d log(W ) d log(θ) < 0, d log(W ) d log(L) < 0 (17) d log(ph) d log(A) > 0, d log(ph) d log(θ) > 0, d log(ph) d log(L) < 0.”
Property tax and urban sprawl theory and implications for US cities (2006, neutral): “[6], ground water availability, temperate climate, rugged terrain, decentralized employment, early public transport infrastructure, uncertainty about metropolitan growth, and unincorporated land in the urban fringe are found to increase sprawl.”
Urban Density and Covid-19 (2020, background): “This instrument is motivated by the work in Burchfield et al. (2006) which reports that aquifers in the urban fringe are associated with urban sprawl.”
The Geographic Determinants of Housing Supply (2010, background): “in urban economics, such as Burchfield et al. (2006), Rosenthal and Strange (2008), and Combes et al.”
Urban Growth and Transportation (2012, positive): “Burchfield et al. (2006) show that nearly all new development between 1976 and 1992 occurred in this buffer region, and so the intersection of this region with an msa’s boundaries describes an msa’s developable land.”
Growth, population and industrialization, and urban land expansion of China (2008, background): “widely to monitor the conversion of agricultural land to infrastructure [3, 19, 26, 34].”
Can the land tax help curb urban sprawl? Evidence from growth patterns in Pennsylvania (2010, neutral): “By the year 2000, the issue climbed into the national spotlight as a poll showed that 18% of Americans viewed sprawl as the top issues facing their community, tied for the highest response (Burchfield et al., 2006), and as Al Gore highlighted the problem in his campaign for the Presidency.”