The role of historic amenities in shaping cities

IF 3.5 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Regional Science and Urban Economics Pub Date : 2024-09-17 DOI:10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.104042
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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.

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历史景观在塑造城市中的作用
便利设施的存在对于理解人们的居住选择至关重要。我们的理论模型对标准城市模型进行了扩展,引入了外生便利设施来解释城市内的人口分布。为了估算模型的预测结果,我们利用 579 个欧洲城市的详细地理位置数据,重点研究了历史上的便利设施。我们分析了拥有或不拥有这些便利设施的城市中心的形态是如何受到影响的。我们用罗马、中世纪和文艺复兴-巴洛克时期建筑的位置来衡量历史设施。我们的研究结果表明,市中心有历史建筑的城市人口密度梯度更陡,更加紧凑和集中,受交通改善造成的郊区化进程的影响较小。异质性分析表明,历史建筑的数量和质量也很重要。一些稳健性检验控制了自然和现代设施,并检验了这些设施的空间范围,从而验证了我们的主要结果。
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期刊介绍: Regional Science and Urban Economics facilitates and encourages high-quality scholarship on important issues in regional and urban economics. It publishes significant contributions that are theoretical or empirical, positive or normative. It solicits original papers with a spatial dimension that can be of interest to economists. Empirical papers studying causal mechanisms are expected to propose a convincing identification strategy.
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