More FSI, more welfare?

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 48, Issue 26-27, 2013, Pages 16-18

  Patel, Shirish B ^a  

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EID: 84880301397     PISSN: 00129976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (4)

1. Jan K Brueckner and Kala Seetharam Sridhar, "Measuring Welfare Gains from Relaxation of Land-use Restrictions: The Case of India's Building-Height Limits", Regional Science and Urban Economics, Volume 42, Issue 6, November 2012, pp 1061-67.
2. Alain Bertaud and Jan K Brueckner, "Analyzing Building Height Restrictions: Predicted Impacts and Welfare Costs", Regional Science and Urban Economics, Volume 35, Issue 2, March 2005, pp 109-25.
3. Abhay Pethe points out that in the model there is indeed a theoretical upper limit to FSI. This would happen when urban land rent falls to the level of agricultural land rent. However, since the city by this time is fully built up, and the land below it more or less solid concrete, reversion to agricultural use is no longer a viable economic alternative. So in the model as it stands there would effectively be no upper limit on FSI.
4. Shlomo Angel, Jason Parent, Daniel L Civco and Alexandro M Blei, "Making Room for a Planet of Cities", Lincoln Institute of Land Policy 2011.