Urban spatial structure,suburbanization and transportation in Barcelona |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Geography, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, No. 19, XinJieKouWai St., HaiDian District, Beijing 100875, China;2. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Nature Resources Research, Key Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modeling, Chinese Academy of Sciences,11A Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China;3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yuquan Road 49, Beijing 100049, China;4. Urban-Rural Planning Administration Center, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of China, No.9 San Li He Road, Beijing 100835, China;5. Centre for Urban Planning and Transport Studies, School of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Yiheyuan Road 5, Beijing 100871, China |
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| Abstract: | I investigate the effect of improvements to the transportation infrastructure on changes in location patterns of population in Barcelona, Spain between 1991 and 2006. At a census tract level, I verify and extend the finding of Baum-Snow (2007a) that transportation improvements cause suburbanization: (1) improvements to the highway and railroad systems foster population growth in suburban areas; (2) the transit system also affects the location of population inside the central business district (CBD). To estimate the causal relationship between the growth of population (density) and transportation improvements, I rely on an instrumental variables estimation that uses distances to the nearest Roman road, the nearest 19th century main road, and the nearest 19th century railroad network as instruments for the 1991–2001 changes in distance to the nearest highway ramp and the distance to the nearest railroad station. |
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