Institutional fragmentation and urbanization in European Union cities

Federica Cappelli, Giovanni Guastella*, Stefano Pareglio

*Autore corrispondente per questo lavoro

Risultato della ricerca: Contributo in rivistaArticolo in rivistapeer review

Abstract

The relationship between institutional fragmentation and the spatial extent of cities in Europe’s functional urban areas is examined. European Union planning regulations vary across member states, but in most cases local authorities determine land use within the more general regulatory frameworks set by national or subnational authorities. More decentralized and fragmented settings may favour urban sprawl, allowing developers to avoid land-use restrictions in one municipality by moving to adjacent ones and providing incentives for municipalities to adopt less strict land-conversion regulations to attract households and workers. The empirical results fully support this hypothesis and unveil significant differences between small and large cities, the effect of governance fragmentation being a substantial factor in the latter case.
Lingua originaleEnglish
pagine (da-a)269-281
Numero di pagine13
RivistaRegional Studies
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 2020

Keywords

  • institutional fragmentation
  • threshold regression
  • urban sprawl

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