 Constructing compact cities: How urban regeneration can enhance growth and relieve congestionJiewei Li, Ming Lu and Tianyi Lu Economic Modelling, 2022, vol. 113, issue C Abstract: Urban population growth worsens congestion. However, this effect can be weakened by taller and denser city centers. Considering the important role played by intraurban density patterns, we modeled a mechanism to explain how urban regeneration can relieve population congestion. The model suggests two effects as follows: a direct concentration and an indirect growth effect. The direct concentration effect worsens congestion with little loss of welfare, whereas an indirect growth effect reduces the marginal congestion of population growth. These findings suggest that megacities should build taller and denser city centers through urban regeneration. Moreover, governments should regenerate megacities to support population growth instead of investing in new or smaller cities. This study helps bridge research on urban growth and planning, which warrants further investigation. Keywords: Regeneration; Intraurban density pattern; Population–congestion relationship; Urban growth (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ecmode:v:113:y:2022:i:c:s0264999322000748 DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2022.105828 Access Statistics for this article Economic Modelling is currently edited by S. Hall and P. Pauly More articles in Economic Modelling from Elsevier |
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