Agent-based models offer a promising framework for analyzing interactions between agents and a heterogeneous landscape. Researchers have identified a complex of factors that influence exurban development, including demographic shifts and location attractiveness of natural amenities as a magnet to amenity-seeking migrants. Attractiveness is often defined in terms of local or on-lot amenities, in...

We consider the problem of integrating spatial amenities into locational equilibrium models with multiple jurisdictions. We provide sufficient conditions under which models that assume a single housing price in each community continue to apply in the presence of location-specific amenities that vary both within and across communities. If these conditions are satisfied, the models, estimation me...

This paper describes and critically reviews an important but under-theorized value capture mechanism that we have termed “vertical allocations” (or vertical exactions). enables cities to vertically by allocating floor space for public utilities in privately owned, mixed-use, development. As a tool, allocations allow the government tap uplift supply nearby neighborhood, city as whole, with much ...

Environmental Stewardship (ES) is voluntary action on behalf of the environment. ES typically practiced at environmental nonprofit organizations that offer stewardship programs. Because these programs are managed by individual organizations, relatively little external research exists their impacts, e.g., diffusing norms and behaviors more broadly across society. Responding to gap, this paper st...

Abstract Economistsgenerallyemploytwo ‘revealed preference’ approaches to measure households’ preferences for non-market amenities—the hedonic and equilibrium sorting models. The conventional model assumes free mobility across space. Violation of this assumption can bias the estimates household willingness pay local amenities. Mobility constraints are more easily handled by framework. In chapte...

Urbanisation and associated growth patterns (urban sprawl) are characteristic of spatial temporal land use changes taking place at regional levels. Unplanned urbanization and consequent impacts on natural resources including basic amenities has necessitated the investigation and understanding of mechanisms and dynamics of land use and land-use change on a range of spatial scales and evaluate th...

A revenue maximizing local government must obey a migration constraint when levying taxes. Using this insight, I develop simple theory of taxation that suggests natural amenities are key factor influencing tax rates. Natural confer rents to residents which governments and interest groups compete extract. Revenue rates increasing in the level amenities, moving costs, decreasing households’ reser...