The American Way of Land Use

John I. Carruthers, Selma Hepp, Gerrit-Jan Knaap and Robert Renner

International Regional Science Review, 2012, vol. 35, issue 3, 267-302

Abstract: This article examines the ability of proportional hazard models to evaluate changes in land use through time. There are three specific objectives: (a) to review previous research on the complexity of urbanization and explain how the spatial hazard framework accommodates that complexity; (b); to estimate a series of spatial hazard models characterizing land use in the twenty-five highest growth core-based statistical areas (CBSAs) of the United States in 1990, 2000, and 2006; and (c) to use the estimation results to track land use change region-by-region over the 16-year time frame. Overall, the analysis reveals that the spatial hazard framework offers a highly effective means of describing land use change. Along the way, it also illustrates that the classic model of urbanization continues to hold in an evermore-complex world—albeit, in an explicitly uncertain and inherently probabilistic manner.

Keywords: land use; urbanization; sprawl; spatial hazard models; point pattern analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1177/0160017611401388

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