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Does Cbd Theory Survive The Test Of Small Cities? City-Size And Sprawl In Italy

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  • Gianni GUASTELLA

    (Università Cattolica, Dep of Mathematics and Physics, 41Via Musei, 25121, Brescia (IT))

  • Stefano PAREGLIO

    (Università Cattolica, Dep of Mathematics and Physics, 41Via Musei, 25121, Brescia (IT))

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Economic theory predicts that the equilibrium of different economic forces explains the spatial scale of a city more than the uncontrolled take of agricultural land, which is considered instead as urban sprawl. A wide range of empirical results based on US data for large urban areas supports this hypothesis, showing that the socio-economic and environmental forces explain a vast portion of the variation in urbanization across cities. In this paper, we ask whether these socio-economic forces are relevant also in small cities and if they are in a different manner, provided that sprawling phenomena may occur more easily in small areas due to the larger availability of agricultural land. To answer the question, we estimate the relationship between city size and the socio-economic and environmental forces using data for small and large municipalities in the Lombardy region, Italy, and test to what extent this model is apt to explain size variations. We find that the model is adequate also in the case of small citi

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  • Gianni GUASTELLA & Stefano PAREGLIO, 2015. "Does Cbd Theory Survive The Test Of Small Cities? City-Size And Sprawl In Italy," Regional Science Inquiry, Hellenic Association of Regional Scientists, vol. 0(2), pages 11-21, December.
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    Keywords

    Land Use; Urban Sprawl; Central Business District; Spatial Econometrics; Italy;
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    JEL classification:

    • O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
    • Q15 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment
    • R14 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Land Use Patterns

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