>At 2:33 PM 4/18/96, Eban Goodstein wrote:
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>>Anybody out there familiar with a literature on:
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>>(1) the degree to which suburban development is subsidized?
>>(2) estimates of the externality costs of sprawl?
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>>References would be greatly appreciated.
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>
>Please post 'em to the list; this is an interesting topic.
>
>I've forwarded the question to an urban history list I'm on too.
>
>Doug
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> Two sources people might find interesting on this topic.
1. Just before being forced out of business the Office of Technology
Assessment published
report: The Technological Reshaping of Metropolitan America. It
includes a good
chapter on the costs of sprawl.
2. Wim Wiewel and I have just completed a report for the Chicago
Brownfields Forum where
we try to estimate externalities, public sector costs and private
gains associated
with industrial development in the central city of Chicago, the
inner suburbs and
the greenfields of the outer suburbs. There's a white paper summary
and a longer
report. You can get copies by writing to Wim at
Wim Wiewel
Office of the Special Assistant to the Chancellor
M/C 102
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 S. Morgan St., Room 2800
Chicago, IL 60607-7121
Our basic finding is that subsidies and negative externalities of
outer suburban
development are about the same order of magnitude as private
benefits. Interestingly,
the major private benefit seems to be the willingness of relatively
skilled women to
work for lower wages in the outer suburbs than they command in the
central city.
Joe Persky
