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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w21620
来源ID	Working Paper 21620
	Do People Shape Cities, or Do Cities Shape People? The Co-evolution of Physical, Social, and Economic Change in Five Major U.S. Cities
	Nikhil Naik; Scott Duke Kominers; Ramesh Raskar; Edward L. Glaeser; César A. Hidalgo
发表日期	2015-10-12
出版年	2015
语种	英语
摘要	Urban change involves transformations in the physical appearance and the social composition of neighborhoods. Yet, the relationship between the physical and social components of urban change is not well understood due to the lack of comprehensive measures of neighborhood appearance. Here, we introduce a computer vision method to quantify change in physical appearance of streetscapes and generate a dataset of physical change for five large American cities. We combine this dataset with socioeconomic indicators to explore whether demographic and economic changes precede, follow, or co-occur with changes in physical appearance. We find that the strongest predictors of improvement in a neighborhood’s physical appearance are population density and share of college-educated adults. Other socioeconomic characteristics, like median income, share of vacant homes, and monthly rent, do not predict improvement in physical appearance. We also find that neighborhood appearances converge to the initial appearances of bordering areas, supporting the Burgess “invasion” theory. In addition, physical appearance is more likely to improve in neighborhoods proximal to the central business district. Finally, we find modest support for “tipping” and “filtering” theories of urban change.
主题	Econometrics ; Data Collection ; Regional and Urban Economics ; Other
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w21620
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579295
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Nikhil Naik,Scott Duke Kominers,Ramesh Raskar,et al. Do People Shape Cities, or Do Cities Shape People? The Co-evolution of Physical, Social, and Economic Change in Five Major U.S. Cities. 2015.