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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT
Volume 46, Issue 2, Pages 288-309Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/S0095-0696(03)00023-8
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amenities; growth management; income diversity; land development; land use policy; leapfrog development; open space; urban spatial structure; urban sprawl
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There is widespread public support for open space provision and for efforts to limit sprawl. We demonstrate that open space policies should not be viewed as independent of-or necessarily compatible with-growth management goals. We examine the impacts of open space designation on the urban landscape in a spatial city model with two important and empirically relevant features; (1) residents prefer to live close to open space and (2) open space amenities attract migrants to the city. Our main findings are that open space designation can produce leapfrog development; the effect of open space on the total area of developed land in the city is ambiguous; more dispersed forms of open space may be preferred when congestion externalities are present; depending on location, the provision of new open space may benefit some income groups more than others and may increase the income diversity of a city. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science (USA). All rights.reserved.
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