Neighborhood change, gentrification, and the urbanization of college graduates

V Couture, J Handbury - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2023 - aeaweb.org
We study changing trends in within-city sorting by education over the last 40 years. We show
that neighborhoods closest to the centers of large US cities rose from having the lowest …

How to identify urban centers/subcenters in metropolises? An analytical review

L Yu, W Zheng, T Yu, Y Wu - Habitat International, 2021 - Elsevier
The global urbanization has produced a number of metropolises with complex urban spatial
structures. Compared with monocentric cities, these metropolises typically have multiple …

Using multi-source geospatial big data to identify the structure of polycentric cities

J Cai, B Huang, Y Song - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
Identifying the structure of a polycentric city is vital to various studies, such as urban sprawl
and population movement dynamics. This paper presents an efficient and reliable method …

Urban land use

G Duranton, D Puga - Handbook of regional and urban economics, 2015 - Elsevier
We provide an integrated treatment of the theoretical literature on urban land use inspired by
the monocentric model, including extensions that deal with multiple endogenous business …

[HTML][HTML] Agglomeration economies and evolving urban form

G Giuliano, S Kang, Q Yuan - The Annals of Regional Science, 2019 - Springer
Agglomeration economies are a fundamental explanation for the existence of cities. Spatial
clustering allows for a variety of external benefits such as labor pooling, sharing of suppliers …

A new approach for detecting urban centers and their spatial structure with nighttime light remote sensing

Z Chen, B Yu, W Song, H Liu, Q Wu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Urban spatial structure affects many aspects of urban functions and has implications for
accessibility, environmental sustainability, and public expenditures. During the urbanization …

Revealing centrality in the spatial structure of cities from human activity patterns

C Zhong, M Schläpfer, S Müller Arisona… - Urban …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Identifying changes in the spatial structure of cities is a prerequisite for the development and
validation of adequate planning strategies. Nevertheless, current methods of measurement …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of polycentric spatial structure in the urban agglomeration of the pearl river delta (PRD) based on multi-source big data fusion

X He, Y Cao, C Zhou - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
The rapid development of the urban city has led to great changes in the urban spatial
structure. Thus, analyses of polycentric urban spatial structures are important for …

[HTML][HTML] Building (s and) cities: Delineating urban areas with a machine learning algorithm

D Arribas-Bel, MÀ Garcia-López… - Journal of Urban …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a novel methodology for delineating urban areas based on a machine
learning algorithm that groups buildings within portions of space of sufficient density. To do …

An LA story: The impact of housing costs on commuting

MR Islam, JDM Saphores - Journal of Transport Geography, 2022 - Elsevier
The empirical impact of housing costs on commuting is still relatively poorly understood. This
impact is especially salient in California given the state's notoriously high housing costs …