We use high frequency data on traffic congestion from Google Maps to measure the impact of Jakarta’s main traffic congestion reduction…
The prevalence of many urban phenomena changes systematically with population size. We propose a theory that unifies models of economic…
Based on survey research and ethnographic interviews, we analyze struggles over housing and access to infrastructure in two low-income "…
In this paper I sketch key episodes in the two thousand year history of interactions between society and environment that have shaped the…
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A housing lottery in an Indian city provided winning slum dwellers the
opportunity to move into improved housing on the city’s periphery.…
Buenos Aires and Chicago grew during the nineteenth century for remarkably similar reasons. Both cities were conduits for moving meat and…