In an urban economy, the distribution of people and real estate prices depends on the location of the central business district of a city. As distance from the city center increases, both prices and population density diminish, for travel costs increase in terms of time and money. As manufacturing gradually leaves the cities, the importance of consumer amenities as attractors of population to the urban ...
Introduction: Control beliefs can protect against age-related declines in functioning. It is unclear whether neighborhood characteristics shape how much control people perceive over their life. This article studies associations of neighborhood characteristics with control beliefs of residents of a diverse metropolitan area (Berlin, Germany). Methods: We combine self-report data about perceptions of ...
Private rental markets have become increasingly important since the Global Financial Crisis 2008–2009 and rent controls are back on the political agenda. Yet, they have received less attention from housing scholars than homeownership and public housing. This paper presents new data on the development of private tenancy legislation based on a content-coding of rent control, protection of tenants from ...
US-Handelsrestriktionen belasten Finanzmärkte – Aktienkurse und Anleiherenditen geben nach Zollerhöhungen und ähnlichen Maßnahmen nach – Wirkung hält bis zu fünf Monate an – Fast alle Branchen und Handelspartner sind negativ betroffen – Rückkehr zur multilateralen Handelsordnung wäre wünschenswert Erst Ende Juli hat US-Präsident ...
The morphology of today’s cities is the result of historic urban developments and on-going urban transformation resulting in complex urban spatial structures. While functionally as well as spatially, cities are structured into sub-units such as the city center, business districts, residential areas or industrial and commercial zones, their precise localization in the geographic space is sometimes difficult. ...
With the expansion of onshore wind power, countries increasingly consider the introduction of minimum distance regulations between wind turbines to nearby residential areas, to increase public acceptance. In 2014, the German federal state of Bavaria introduced a minimum distance regulation that requires new wind turbines to be ten times their total height away from settlements (10-H regulation). This ...
Die Coronapandemie hatte einschneidende Auswirkungen auf die Realwirtschaft. Dennoch ist die Kreditnachfrage von Unternehmen und Selbstständigen bisher nicht zurückgegangen, sondern gestiegen. Vor allem Sparkassen erwiesen sich durch ihre überdurchschnittliche Kreditvergabe als stabilisierendes Element in der Krise. Deren Kreditwachstum war ab September 2020 sowohl in Geschäftsgebieten mit einer hohen ...