We present a structural model of urban growth in a spatial equilibrium setting to aid the separation of the effects of demand shocks from those of the spatial variation in housing supply elasticity. The model is applied to an analysis of urban growth across Chines cities between 1998 and 2004, to evaluate the determinants of housing supply elasticity. The variation in supply, via urban expansio...

During the last 100 years in many countries of the world, there have been dramatic changes in natural/rural landscapes due to urbanization. Since many wildlife species are unable to adapt to these alterations in their environment, urbanization is commonly responsible for a decline of biodiversity in areas of urban development. In contrast, some wild animal species are attracted to peri-urban an...

Knowledge of the resource requirements of urban predators can improve our understanding of their ecology and assist town planners and wildlife management agencies in developing management approaches that alleviate human-wildlife conflicts. Here we examine food and dietary items identified in scats of dingoes in peri-urban areas of north-eastern Australia to better understand their resource requ...

This paper reflects on how to interpret the dearth of radical activism in Zimbabwe’s peri-urban areas: why urban ‘subalterns’ do not mobilize against recurrent heart-wrenching demolitions their informal settlements housing. It contributes understanding politics context is a major determinant and developments which working classes, middle elites state are actors. A significant proportion demolit...

BACKGROUND Reported urban malaria cases are increasing in Latin America, however, evidence of such trend remains insufficient. Here, we propose an integrated approach that allows characterizing malaria transmission at the rural-to-urban interface by combining epidemiological, entomological, and parasite genotyping methods. METHODS/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS A descriptive study that combines active (A...

This study explores the role of urban design in the successes and failures of modern multifamily housing developments. Similar housing developments, which are high-rise multi-family apartments laid out in super-blocks, have been implemented around the world. However, their results have been polarized despite their similar urban design elements. To shed light on the contribution of design elemen...

This paper aims at analyzing and assessing the evolution and outcomes of Pakistan's urban policies during 1947-97. One-third of Pakistan's population live in urban areas, and the level of urbanization increased from 18% in 1951 to 32% in 1991. The rapid rate of urbanization has produced two megacities, Karachi with a population of 8-10 million and Lahore with a population of about 5 million, ...

Being able to understand how housing wealth affects consumption behavior is very important to a developing economy. Particularly, the Chinese residential real estate market is especially hard to manage given the country’s large population base and rapid urbanization rate. Some previous researches have been done in this area using macro-data of China and found a small but positive housing wealth...

Previous evidence has identified potential racial disparities in access to community water and sewer service in peri-urban areas adjacent to North Carolina municipalities. We performed the first quantitative, multi-county analysis of these disparities. Using publicly available data, we identified areas bordering municipalities and lacking community water and/or sewer service in 75 North Carolin...

The goal of this paper is to evaluate the level and examine the dynamics of housing consumption and residential crowding in urban China almost a decade after the housing reform was launched. I argue that housing consumption and residential crowding are affected not only by demographic and socioeconomic factors, as they are in market economies, but also by institutional factors that are unique t...