The role of historic amenities in shaping cities
García López, Miquel-Àngel (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Viladecans Marsal, Elisabet (Universitat de Barcelona. Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles)

Date:	2024
Abstract:	The existence of amenities matters to understanding people's residential choices. Our theoretical model extends the standard urban model by introducing exogenous amenities to explain population allocation within cities. To estimate the model predictions, we focus on historic amenities using detailed geolocated data for 579 European cities. We analyze how the shape of city centers endowed or not endowed with these amenities is affected. We measure historic amenities with the location of buildings from the Roman, Medieval, and Renaissance-Baroque periods. Our results show that cities with historic buildings in their centers have steeper population density gradients, are more compact and centralized, and have been less affected by the suburbanization processes caused by transportation improvements. Heterogeneity analyses show that the quantity and the quality of historic buildings also matter. Several robustness checks controlling for natural and modern amenities and testing for the spatial scope of these amenities verify our main results.
Grants:	Agencia Estatal de Investigación PI2021-128227OB-I00 Agencia Estatal de Investigación PI2022-139878OB-I00 Agencia Estatal de Investigación TE2021-131886B-I00 Agencia Estatal de Investigación TE2021-132184B-I00 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2021/SGR-0189 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2021/SGR-0355 "La Caixa" Foundation LCF/PR/SR21/52560001
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Subject:	Amenities ; Buildings ; Density ; History ; Transportation ; SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
Published in:	Regional science and urban economics, Vol. 109 (2024) , p. 104042, ISSN 1879-2308

DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.104042

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