ACCESSIBILITY AND SITE RENTS IN THE C-ECONOMY. IN: URBAN AND REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION MODELING. ESSAYS IN HONOR OF DAVID BOYCE

This chapter on accessibility and site rents in the C-economy is from a book of essays published in honor of David Boyce for his contributions to the fields of transportation modeling and regional science. The authors note that the C in C-economy stands for several typical features of the post-industrial economy, such as creative, cognitive and computer capacities, culture, and communications. Using Sweden as an example, the authors discuss decision making strategies and approaches; the regional accumulation of capital (knowledge, in this case); real estate returns, regional rates of growth, and accessibility to knowledge; optimizing the real estate portfolio; and the intra-metropolitan property rent structure. The authors conclude that using a simplified growth model one can demonstrate that a knowledge-oriented economy, consisting of a given number of regions with different accessibilities, can grow at a balanced rate; this growth can feature increasing amounts of knowledge capital per unit of land and labor as well as increasing per capita incomes. Their analysis shows that even in the C-economy, real estate businesses would gain from diversifying their investment portfolios interregionally, combining the higher growth rates of C-regions with the greater stability of more traditional but accessible regions.

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• Authors:
  • Andersson, A E
  • Andersson, D E
• Publication Date: 2004

Language

• English

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• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 380-389
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  • Publication of: Edward Elgar Publishing, Incorporated
  • Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Economic development; Highway transportation; Information management; Knowledge; Location; Property values; Real estate development; Regional economics; Socioeconomic factors; Transportation planning; Workplaces
• Geographic Terms: Sweden
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Economics; Highways; Society; I10: Economics and Administration;

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• Accession Number: 00981370
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 1843763060
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 2 2004 12:00AM