An analysis of urban growth controls with resident landowners
Lai, Fu-Chuan
This item is only available for download by members of the University of Illinois community. Students, faculty, and staff at the U of I may log in with your NetID and password to view the item. If you are trying to access an Illinois-restricted dissertation or thesis, you can request a copy through your library's Inter-Library Loan office or purchase a copy directly from ProQuest.
Permalink
https://hdl.handle.net/2142/21238
Description
Title
An analysis of urban growth controls with resident landowners
Author(s)
Lai, Fu-Chuan
Issue Date
1995
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Brueckner, Jan K.
Department of Study
Economics
Discipline
Economics
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Economics, Theory
Urban and Regional Planning
Language
eng
Abstract
Instead of using the absentee-landowner assumption which prevails in the literature, this study develops a generalized growth-control model with resident landowners. It is shown that resident landowners have a weaker taste for growth control than their absentee counterparts. The reason is that resident landowners ignore the rent increase on the land they occupy, because they pay that rent to themselves. In contrast, the absentee landowners benefit from the increase in rent all over the city.
The separate-ownership assumption is then relaxed to allow cross-ownership. When landowners in the controlling city own all of their city's land, the growth control becomes looser as their ownership share in the passive city falls. This occurs because the growth control benefits holders of land in the passive city. When controlling landowners obtain less benefit from the passive city, the incentive to tighten the control weakens. Building on the resident-landownership model, when amenity effects are present, the growth control is more stringent. This is because a larger population negatively affects amenity values. On the other hand, the growth control will be less stringent when the wage effect is considered, since a larger population enhances productivity.
The assumption of fixed land consumption is then replaced by flexible land consumption, so that a passive city is not necessary. With the help of a numerical model, comparative-static analysis is performed to explore the adjustment of land consumption to parameter changes.
This study also analyzed a one-city dynamic growth-control model with absentee landowners. A numerical example is developed to allow comparative-static analysis. The most important factor for the determination of the city size is renters' income. The outside city utility is the most important factor for the population size of the city.
Use this login method if you
don't
have an
@illinois.edu
email address.
(Oops, I do have one)
IDEALS migrated to a new platform on June 23, 2022. If you created
your account prior to this date, you will have to reset your password
using the forgot-password link below.
