Exploring the empirical relationship between inner-city blight and urban sprawl in the United States

• Main Authors: FESSELMEYER, Eric, SEAH, Kiat Ying
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: Urban blight; urban sprawl; externalities; land-use regulations; American Studies; Urban Studies
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/23; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/cis_research/article/1022/viewcontent/ch1.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Urban blight has been found to cause a variety of problems, including negatively affecting the value of surrounding properties and increasing neighborhood crime rates. If the same externalities that give rise to urban sprawl also contribute to urban blight, as is suggested by Brueckner and Helsley (...