Fifty Years of Urban Accessibility: The Impact of Urban Railway Network on the Land Gradient in Industrializing Berlin
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2008-10Type
- Working Paper
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Abstract
As the first to use an archival data set on historical land values of Berlin, Germany, from 1890 to 1936, we exploit exogenous variation in transport technology in order to test the validity of the monocentric city model. Endogenously determining the CBD, we conduct cross-section and time-difference analysis and model the land gradient in terms of straight-line distance and travel times. A counterfactual scenario indicates that a large proportion of urban decentralization is attributable to improvements in transport infrastructure. Controlling for spatial dependency, results suggest that the monocentric model fitted the city structure until the mid 20th century. Show more
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https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-005705229Publication status
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KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH ZurichSubject
TECHNIKGESCHICHTE + GESCHICHTE DES INGENIEURWESENS; Location Productivity; WIRTSCHAFTSGESCHICHTE; BERLIN, LAND UND STADT (DEUTSCHLAND); URBAN TRANSPORT PLANNING (TRANSPORTATION AND TRAFFIC); BERLIN, STATE AND CITY (GERMANY); Land Values; EISENBAHNVERKEHR (VERKEHR UND TRANSPORT); STADTVERKEHR + STADTVERKEHRSPLANUNG (VERKEHR UND TRANSPORT); HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY + HISTORY OF ENGINEERING; ECONOMIC HISTORY; Economic History; RAILWAY TRANSPORT (TRANSPORTATION AND TRAFFIC); INDUSTRIALIZATION (ECONOMICS); Transport Innovations; INDUSTRIALISIERUNG (WIRTSCHAFTSWISSENSCHAFTEN)Organisational unit
02525 - KOF Konjunkturforschungsstelle / KOF Swiss Economic Institute
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