Chapter One - Introduction

Abstract

In this chapter, we review theoretical studies on land use regulations. The purpose of this review is to capture the overall flow of development of models for analyzing land use regulations and not to show a comprehensive review of the studies. To address the spatial mechanisms of land use regulations, we basically review only general equilibrium models and ignore empirical research on land use regulations. In addition, we do not review growth control papers, which consider only the population distribution across cities and ignore heterogeneous spaces with transportation and amenities within a city. Basically, we focus on the ingredients that play an important role in determining land use regulations in a city.