Architecture & Built Environment · Urban Design & Planning
A topic within Urban Design & Planning, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Architecture & Built Environment.
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Edward L. Glaeser & Joseph Gyourko
House prices above the physical cost of construction are the visible signature of local land-use regulation, and that regulatory constraint on supply, not scarce land itself, is what makes coastal American cities so expensive.
24 pageslink checked 17 Sept 2026Notes on this copyAlain Bertaud
Argues cities are essentially labour markets shaped by land price and commuting distance, and that planners who ignore this market logic, through rigid zoning or height limits, produce worse outcomes than markets left to allocate density themselves.
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