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    <title>Chennai urban land market assessment</title>
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    <description>Title: Chennai urban land market assessment
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Dowall, David E.; Monkkonen, Paavo
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: This paper reports on the results of a land market assessment conducted in the Chennai Metropolitan Area in India. It provides detailed spatially disaggregated information on land use, population, and housing and land values for the metropolitan area. The assessment was a joint effort of the World Bank, the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) and the Department of Geography at the University of Madras. The study was initiated in June 2003, and the underlying methodology and approach is provided by Dowall (1995).1 The CMDA was responsible for compiling detailed archival land-use information for the metropolitan area for 1971, 1981, and 1991. In addition, the CMDA interpreted IKONOS satellite images for 2001. The CMDA also built the socioeconomic and housing database, linking together information on population, households and dwelling units from Government of India Censuses for 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001. The University of Madras's Department of Geography was responsible for carrying out the extensive surveys of real estate brokers in the metropolitan area. A total of 688 observations were tallied on various types of residential and industrial land prices.</description>
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    <title>Valuing rail transit: Comparing capital and operating costs to consumer benefits</title>
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    <description>Title: Valuing rail transit: Comparing capital and operating costs to consumer benefits
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Guerra, Erick
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: A certain acrimony pervades the longstanding debate over the costs and benefits of public rail transportation in the United States. Some seem opposed to all rail transit all the time, while others support any and every rail project, despite sometimes high costs and low ridership. With much of the debate focused on pricing automobile externalities, transportation choice, and the rail's external benefits, surprisingly few studies assess which rail transit systems create net positive social welfare. If consumer benefits alone do not justify the high cost of a transit investment, what would the external value of a passenger trip have to be to do so? Combining fare, ridership, operating, and capital cost data for 24 transit agencies' heavy and/or light rail systems, this paper makes back-of-the-envelope estimates of how transit systems' rider benefits compare to operating deficits. Urban rail systems may not be optimal from a transportation systems or economic cost-benefit perspective, but they clearly create value for consumers and society. Given a low, but commonly applied, elasticity of -0.3 and a linear demand curve, two transit systems create net social welfare gains based solely on consumer surplus. At least ten others likely provide net benefits when accounting for economic externalities. At an elasticity of -0.6, no system provides net social welfare gains without accounting for externalities. At least five systems are unlikely to provide net economic benefits, even given generous assumptions about external and rider benefits.</description>
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    <title>Brazil's urban land and housing markets: How well are they working?</title>
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    <description>Title: Brazil's urban land and housing markets: How well are they working?
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Dowall, David E.
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: This paper uses a macro, national-level perspective to assess urban land and housing market outcomes across Brazil. It is based on available empirical data from IBGE, field studies, the Fundação João Pinheiro, and other sources. The paper starts by posing and answering the following questions: What are the characteristics of well-functioning urban land and housing markets? How well are Brazils urban land and housing markets performing relative to other countries? It then proceeds to provide an assessment of urban land and housing market outcomes in Brazilian cities. The paper concludes by exploring a range of opportunities for enhancing urban land and housing market outcomes.</description>
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    <title>Race, ethnicity, and immigration in the 2005 mayoral elections in Los Angeles and New York</title>
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    <description>Title: Race, ethnicity, and immigration in the 2005 mayoral elections in Los Angeles and New York
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Mollenkopf, John; Champeny, Ana; Sonenshein, Raphael; Drayse, Mark
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Prepared for Panel 30-3, 'Group Mobilization, Partisanship, Ideas, and Leadership: The Los Angeles and New York Mayoral Elections of 2005', September 2, 2006 at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia</description>
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