The dispersal of the great majority of workplaces away from CBDs, employment sub-centers, and live-work communities by Shlomo Angel and Alejandro M. Blei Abstract: Urban transport and land use policy are informed by our perceptions of the prevailing spatial structure of cities. This structure can be characterized by five models: The Maximum Disorder model, The Mosaic of [...]
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Commuting and the Productivity of American Cities
How self-adjusting commuting patterns sustain the productive advantage of larger metropolitan labor markets by Shlomo Angel and Alejandro M. Blei Abstract: The greatest productive advantage of modern-day American cities is that they form large and integrated metropolitan labor markets. We present new evidence on the importance of self-adjusting commuting and location patterns in sustaining the productive advantages [...]
The Rise and Fall of Manhattan’s Densities (1800-2010)
by Shlomo Angel and Patrick Lamson-Hall Abstract: Using a novel methodology, we study the changes in the population densities of the built-up areas of Manhattan and its neighborhoods from 1800 to 2010. Built-up areas were determined from historical maps, insurance maps, and air photographs, while population data were collected for census wards from 1790 to 1910 and for [...]
The Fragmentation of Urban Landscapes (2012)
Title: Urban Expansion, Land Conversion, and Affordable Housing: The Case of Zhengzhou (2012) Article in: Environment and Urbanization Authors: Shlomo Angel, Jason Parent, and Daniel L. Civco First published: 2012 Pages: 249-283 Overview: A key question that has confronted urban planners, policy makers and concerned environmentalists worldwide for some time is whether the fragmentation of the urban landscape is an [...]
Urban Expansion, Land Conversion, and Affordable Housing (2011)
Title: Urban Expansion, Land Conversion, and Affordable Housing: The Case of Zhengzhou (2011) Article in: China’s Housing Reform and Outcomes Authors: Shlomo Angel, Midori Valdiva, and Rebecca M. Lutzy First published: 2011 Pages: 137-156 Overview: This volume provides background and explanations about the causes and consequences of China’s boom in residential construction, and it reviews how some well-established and ongoing [...]
The Decline in Transit-Sustaining Densities in U.S. Cities (2011)
Title: The Decline in Transit-Sustaining Densities in U.S. Cities, 1910–2000 (2011) Article in: Climate Change and Land Policies Authors: Shlomo Angel, A.M. Blei, J. Parent, and D.L. Civco First published: 2011 Pages: 191-210 Overview: A century of density decline in U.S. metropolitan areas has posed structural challenges to the provision of transit services. This article shows that both the share of [...]
Non-compactness and Voter Exchange (2011)
Title: Non-compactness and Voter Exchange: Towards a Constitutional Cure for Gerrymandering (2011) Article in: Northwestern Interdisciplinary Law Review 4 (1) Authors: Shlomo Angel, Jason Parent First published: 2011 Pages: 89-130 Overview: This essay proposes a novel compactness standard “for courts to identify at least the worst cases of gerrymandering and to provide a remedy.” This standard is based on the perception of [...]
The Dimensions of Global Urban Expansion (2011)
Title: The Dimensions of Global Urban Expansion: Estimates and Projections for All Countries, 2000-2050 (2011) Article in: Progress in Planning, Volume 75, Issue 2 Authors: Shlomo Angel, J. Parent, D. L. Civco, A.M. Blei and D. Potere First published: 2011 Pages: 53-108 Overview: The rapid growth in global urban land cover is likely to continue as long as urban populations continue to [...]
Housing Policy in Belize: Diagnosis and Guidelines for Action (2010)
Title: Housing Policy in Belize: Diagnosis and Guidelines for Action (2010) - unpublished Article Information: Prepared for the government of Belize and the World Bank Authors: Shlomo Angel, Stephen C. Sheppard and Daniel L. Civco, with Robert Buckley, Anna Chabaeva, Lucy Gitlin, Alison Kraley, Jason Parent, and Micah Perlin Date: January, 2010 Overview: This report is an assessment of the housing sector and [...]
Ten Compactness Properties of Circles (2010)
Title: Ten Compactness Properties of Circles: The Measurement of Shape in Geography Article in: Canadian Geographer 54 Authors: Shlomo Angel, Jason Parent, and Daniel L. Civco First published: 2010 Pages: 441-461 Overview: This essay sheds new light on the meaning and measurement of compactness—one of the most intriguing and least-understood properties of geographic shapes. We articulate a unified theoretical foundation for the study of shape compactness [...]
