CEP Urban and Spatial Programme Blog (formerly SERC)
Tuesday, 17 December 2019
Housing: ‘no shortage’ – is it nonsense?
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by Paul Cheshire, Professor of Economic Geography, LSE. To any reasonable observer, the evidence that Britain is suffering from a housi...
Thursday, 29 August 2019
Dirty Density: Air Quality and the Density of American Cities
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Air pollution tends to be worst in large cities and their urban cores. As a result, it is urban air pollution that makes the headlines ...
Monday, 19 August 2019
Why banning the construction of second homes in St. Ives and elsewhere has been a bad idea and what to do instead
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By Christian Hilber, LSE Department of Geography and Environment c.hilber@lse.ac.uk In May 2016 the local residents of St. Ives approve...
Friday, 26 April 2019
Financial innovation in mortgage products spurred the rapid increase in credit and house price growth during the last housing boom
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The dominance of the 30-year fixed rate mortgage is a defining feature of the United States’ housing market. For a brief period in the mi...
Tuesday, 2 April 2019
Valuing the environmental benefits of canals using house prices
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Britain has an extensive canal and navigable river network, which played a vital role in transporting goods from the Industrial Revolution t...
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