Measuring welfare gains from relaxation of land-use restrictions: The case of India's building-height limits ☆

By Jan K. Brueckner, Kala Seetharam Sridhar. 2012

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Transportation

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A global fingerprint of macro-scale changes in urban structure from 1999 to 2009 (2013, background): “Land use controls have led to excessive, low density, leapfrog development across India’s cities, and a marked lack of a densely built-up urban core [51].”
Cities in Developing Countries: Fueled by Rural–Urban Migration, Lacking in Tenure Security, and Short of Affordable Housing (2015, methodology): “Rather than using a simulation exercise to reach such a conclusion, Brueckner and Sridhar (2012) rely on empirical estimates.”
A spatial econometric analysis of land use efficiency in large and small municipalities (2017, unknown): “Results are similar in some European countries (Hortas-Rico, 2014; Oueslati et al., 2015; Pirotte and Madre, 2011) and in developing countries such as China (Deng et al., 2008; Song et al., 2014) and India (Brueckner and Sridhar, 2012).”
Cities in Bad Shape: Urban Geometry in India (2020, result): “d log(W ) d log(A) > 0, d log(W ) d log(θ) < 0 (17)”
Determinants of urban mobility in India: Lessons for promoting sustainable and inclusive urban transportation in developing countries (2016, background): “To increase the built density, currently draconian height limits could be eased in India, as Brueckner and Sridhar (2012) have argued, though measures to avoid gentrification should be put in place.”
Why Has Regional Income Convergence in the U.S. Declined (2017, unknown): “See Brueckner and Sridhar [2012] for work on building restrictions in India. In a similar spirit to our work, Hilber and Vermeulen [2013] analyze a panel of land use regulations in the UK.”
Building up or spreading out? Typologies of urban growth across 478 cities of 1 million+ (2019, background): “Some argue that this is attributed to institutional factors such as restricted floor area ratios (FAR), which is the ratio of total floor area of a building relative to the total area of the building plot, and safety concerns if FAR limits are relaxed (Sridhar 2007, Brueckner and Sridhar 2012).”