TY  - SER
AU  - Brinkman, Jeffrey
AU  -  Lin, Jeffrey
TI  - Freeway Revolts! The Quality of Life Effects of Highways
SN  - 0034-6535
PB  - The Review of Economics and Statistics
KW  -  Highways
KW  -  Local Disamenities
KW  -  Quality of Life
KW  -  Spatial Structure
KW  - Freeway Revolts
N2  - Why do freeways affect spatial structure? We identify and quantify the local disamenity effects of freeways. Freeways cause slower growth in central neighborhoods (where local disamenities exceed regional accessibility benefits) compared with outlying neighborhoods (where access benefits exceed disamenities). A quantitative model calibrated to Chicago attributes one-third of the effect of freeways on central-city decline to reduced quality of life. Barrier effects are a major factor in the disamenity value of a freeway. Local disamenities from freeways, as opposed to their regional accessibility benefits, had large effects on the spatial structure of cities, suburbanization, and welfare
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01244
ER  -