Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/86801 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 08-001/3
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
Although many researchers have investigated the value of open space in cities, few of them have compared them to the costs of providing this amenity. In this paper, we use the monocentric model of a city to derive a simple cost-benefit rule for the optimal provision of open space. The rule is essentially the Samuelson-condition for the optimal provision of a public good, with the price of land as the appropriate indicator for its cost. The condition is made operational by computing the willingness to pay for public and private space on the basis of empirical hedonic price functions for three Dutch cities. The conclusions with respect to the optimal provision of open space differ between the three cities. Further investigation reveals that willingness to pay for parks and public gardens increases with income, although not as fast as that for private residential space.
Subjects: 
spatial planning
provision of public goods
cost-benefit analysis
JEL: 
R52
H41
D61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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