This research investigates the effects of Portland’s urban growth boundary (UGB) on urban development patterns and mobility. Three different methods are adopted for evaluating Portland’s UGB: intermetropolitan comparisons; comparisons inside and outside the UGB; and, statistical analyses utilising regression models. Intermetropolitan comparisons do not support the conclusion that Portland’s UGB...

China’s domestic urban planning only worked on researches of urban space control, the scope definition of urban development is not clear enough. The purpose of this study is to present a new urban growth boundary (UGB) delimitation method which combined land suitability evaluation (LSE) and cellular automata (CA). This method gave credence to LSE’s advantage in sustainable land use, and CA’s ad...

This paper evaluates the efficacy of the urban growth boundary (UGB) as a second-best substitute for a first-best toll regime in a congested city. Numerical results show that, while a UGB is welfare improving, validating previous theoretical results, the utility gain it generates is a very small fraction of that achieved under a toll regime. Thus, the paper suggests that a UGB may not be a usef...

Portland, Oregon, is well known for its relatively unique urban growth boundary (UGB), a very tight form of zoning designed to control sprawl. The UGB has recently been criticized for raising housing prices. From a theoretical perspective, the UGB will put upward pressure on land and thus housing prices, but the magnitude of this effect is uncertain. Increasing density should substitute for hig...

BACKGROUND Planners have relied on the urban development boundary (UDB)/urban growth boundary (UGB) and central business district (CBD) to encourage contiguous urban development and conserve infrastructure. However, no studies have specifically examined the relationship between proximity to the UDB/UGB and CBD and walking behavior. PURPOSE To examine the relationship between UDB and CBD dista...

With the rapid and unregulated nature of urban expansion occurring in Chattogram, Bangladesh, adoption growth restriction mechanisms such as boundary (UGB) can provide a robust framework necessary to direct development built-up areas way that curtails environmentally sensitive city. Using support vector machine (SVM)-based simulation model, this paper examines future contiguous city aid delinea...

This paper develops a spatial general equilibrium model to explore the endogenous relations between urban sprawl, job decentralization, and traffic congestion, and then compare the efficiency and welfare impacts of anti-congestion policies. Results suggest that congestion spurs firms to decentralize and agglomerate away from the urban center, with households living more centrally. A congestion-...

Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) is a growth management policy that designates specific areas where should be concentrated in order to avoid urban sprawl. The objective of such boundary protect agricultural land, open spaces and the natural environment, as well use existing infrastructure public services more efficiently. Due inherent heterogeneity complexity settlements, UGBs Germany are currently ...

This article relies on data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics matched to U.S. census data to explain the factors contributing to homeownership transitions for a sample of renters who first left their parents’ homes during the years 1978 through 1987. The article employs continuous time duration models to explain first-time homeownership transitions as a function of various individual and ...

Urban growth boundaries (UGBs) established by urban planning, are common containment strategies to prevent sprawl. We analyze the effectiveness of UGB strategy in case Metropolitan Region Santiago de Chile, land use plan 1994. describe and quantify annual rate development new built-up areas inside outside boundary using GIS. The results show that expansion is greater than (75% vs. 49%), with a ...