Land Scarcity and Urban Density within Cities

Melanie Krause and André Seidel

No 8660, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: This paper studies how limitations on land suitable for development affect within-city variation in urban density and its three components: crowding, residential coverage, and building height. We use the high variation in geographical obstacles − such as steep land slopes and the presence of water bodies within Norwegian cities − as exogenous sources of development limitations. We show that such constraints can create scarcity of certain types of land. Scarcer land types have higher urban density which arises mostly from higher buildings. The effect operates through the heterogeneous citywide supply of land types, rather than through local geography.

Keywords: urban density; building heights; geography; neighborhoods; inner-city differences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C80 R21 R23 R31 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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