Exurban Change Program - Papers

International

COMING SOON - White Paper - Peri-Urban Agglomerations in Southeast Asia (*pdf format) (2007)

National

From the Cover: Land Change Science Special Feature: The evolution of urban sprawl: Evidence of spatial heterogeneity and increasing land fragmentation. Elena G. Irwin and Nancy E. Bockstael.  December 26, 2007.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS); 104 (52): 20672-20677.

Measuring the Amount and Pattern of Land Development in Non-Urban Areas.  (*pdf format).  Elena G. Irwin, Hyun Jin Cho and Nancy E. Bockstael. December 1, 2006.  Prepared for the American Agricultural Economics Association sessions at the Allied Social Sciences Association meeting, Chicago, IL.  January 5-7, 2007

Measuring and modeling urban sprawl: Data, scale and spatial dependencies.  (*pdf format).  Elena G. Irwin, Nancy E. Bockstael and Hyun Jin Cho. Invited paper prepared for the Urban Economics Sessions, 53rd Annual North American Regional Science Association Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, November 16-18, 2006, Toronto, Canada.  Download accompanying maps/tables/figures here.

Exurban Settlement Pattern and the Exurban Condition: A Typology of US Metropolitan Areas (*pdf format) Jill K. Clark, Darla Munroe and Elena G. Irwin.  Prepared for the 53rd Annual North American Regional Science Association meetings of the Regional Science Association International, November 16-18, 2006, Toronto, Canada - related presentation

Spatial Characteristics of Exurban Settlement (*pdf format) Jill K. Clark, Ron McChesney, Darla Munroe and Elena G. Irwin.  Prepared for the 52rd Annual North American Regional Science Association meetings of the Regional Science Association International, November 2005, Las Vegas, NV - related presentation

Related papers from the Swank Program in Rural-Urban Policy -

• Rural Economic Development Prospects in a High Energy Cost Environment  (*pdf format) (2006)

• Does the New Economic Geography Explain U.S. Core-Periphery Population Dynamics?  (*pdf format) (2005)

• Voting with their Feet:  Jobs versus Amenities  (*pdf format) (2005)

Regional

Exurban Conference Paper - Regional Determinants of Exurban Land Use in the US Midwest (*pdf format) (2005)

State

Peer-Reviewed Articles -

• Sharp, J. S., and Jill K. Clark. 2008. "Communities between the Country and the Concrete: Rediscovering the Rural-Urban Fringe." City & Community. 7 (1): March: 61-79.

Growth and Change Reports -

• GROWTH AND CHANGE:  Does Enhancing Ohio’s Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs Provide the Key to Growth? (2008)

• GROWTH AND CHANGE:  Employment Growth, Future Prospects, and Change at the Ohio Rural-Urban Interface (2007)

• GROWTH AND CHANGE: Population Change in Ohio and its Rural-Urban Interface (2007)

• GROWTH AND CHANGE AT THE RURAL-URBAN INTERFACE: An overview of Ohio's changing population and land use (2003)

Exurban Change Working Series -

• EX-5: Agricultural Zoning in Ohio: Conditions and Recommendations (2007)

• EX-4: Urbanization Trends in Ohio: Tracking Ohio's Urban Growth and Land Use Change (2002)

• EX-3: Land Cover in Ohio's Townships: An Analysis of Township Land Cover and Population Change (2002)

• EX-1: Township Growth & Change: Population Characteristics of Ohio's Townships 1960 to 2000 (2001)

Rural Urban Interface Working Series (RU-Series) -

• RU-2: Ohio Agricultural Change by Metropolitan Area 1978-1997 (2000)

• RU-1: Rural and Non-Metropolitan Population Change in Ohio, 1950 to 1998 (1999)

Local

Ohio's Local Stories of Growth and Change:  Creating your own TOP FIGURES, MAPS, and TABLES (2003).   Local officials, city and regional  planners, economic development professionals, civic groups, concerned citizens, can use this tool to analyze growth and change in their community.

EX-2: Residents' views of their community at the rural-urban Interface: Results of a community study of Northwest Licking County, Ohio (2001)