Journal of Urban Planning and Development

This paper analyzes infrastructure development policies and economic development incentives used by the Indianapolis region's largest cities and the counties surrounding Marion County. These two policies create the interjurisdictional environment for cooperation or competition for urban development, which structures the approaches cities take in pursuing development. This analysis assesses how the urban development policy environment supports either cooperation or competition among cities and the counties around Indianapolis. Among cities, the policies could be very different or quite similar. When different, there is interurban competition because differing development environments exist. Where policies are similar, interlocal cooperation may result. The analysis shows the region's infrastructure policies to be open-ended and designed to allow the governments to compete for development. Economic development incentives used by Indianapolis jurisdictions suggest the underlying development environment is competition, not cooperation. This can be positive because city administrators have flexibility to negotiate development deals. But flexibility creates competition among the region's governments. When development interests know cities have flexible policies, interjurisdictional competition emerges in order to advertise a willingness to negotiate or market development policies highly favorable to business activity.

The purpose of this study is to estimate the determinants of rental-housing demand for three types of cities in Korea. The study focuses on the statistical estimation issues encountered in calibrating rental-housing demand: selectivity bias, estimation of hedonic prices, application of the permanent income hypothesis, and functional forms of rental housing demand. The procedure for the estimation of the demand function consists of a logit and ordinary least square to address the first three issues. These estimated values are then used as explanatory variables for the final housing-demand function in a two-step procedure. It is shown that these procedures are both practical and suitable for an analysis of the Korean rental housing market.

Many North American municipalities are considering the introduction of a generator-pay system for municipal solid-waste–management services. In this technical note, a methodology is developed for the determination of charge levels for the provision of such services. To ensure financial feasibility, generator-pay charges for solid-waste–management systems should include a component for both direct and indirect costs. The developed methodology is applied to a hypothetical North American municipality.