Cities and Warfare: The Impact of Terrorism on Urban Form
Edward L. Glaeser|Jesse M. Shapiro
What impact will terrorism have on America's cities? Historically, large-scale violence has impacted cities in three ways: First, concentrations of people an advantage defending themselves from attackers, making more appealing times violence. Second, often make attractive targets for violence, which creates incentive to disperse. Third, since warfare and specifically target means transportation, can increase the effective cost usually demand density. Evidence war 20th century suggests that effect wars urban form be large (for example, Berlin World War II), but commonly neither nor significantly altered form. As such, across America is likely small. The only exception this downtown New York which, absent subsidies, probably not fully rebuilt. Furthermore, such subsidies little sense us.
Journal of Urban Economics|Library Union Catalog of Bavaria, Berlin and Brandenburg (B3Kat Repository)|RePEc: Research Papers in Economics