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Exploring the Empirical Relationship Between Inner-City Blight and Urban Sprawl in the United States

Cityscape (Washington, D.C.), 2022-01, Vol.24 (2), p.9-22 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Exploring the Empirical Relationship Between Inner-City Blight and Urban Sprawl in the United States
Author: Fesselmeyer, Eric ; Seah, Kiat Ying
Subjects: Census of Retail Trade ; Central business districts ; Inner city ; Neighborhood blight ; Symposium: Measuring Blight ; Urbanization
Is Part Of: Cityscape (Washington, D.C.), 2022-01, Vol.24 (2), p.9-22
Description: 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 (2011), city center vacancy rates—an indication of blight—would increase with the extent of urban sprawl. This study adds to the sparse literature on the empirical relationship between urban sprawl and blight by finding that the city-center census tract vacancy rate is higher in more sprawling cities. The results of this article, therefore, provide support for the argument that policies designed to contain urban sprawl could have the advantage of also mitigating urban blight.
Publisher: Washington: US Department of Housing and Urban Development
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1936-007X
EISSN: 1939-1935
Source: US Government Documents
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