Causes of Sprawl: A Portrait from Space
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- 1 May 2006
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Vol. 121 (2) , 587-633
- https://doi.org/10.1162/qjec.2006.121.2.587
Abstract
We study the extent to which U. S. urban development is sprawling and what determines differences in sprawl across space. Using remote-sensing data tKeywords
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