【摘要】Leapfrog development is a typical form of sprawl. This paper aims at analyzing theexistence, size, and persistence of leapfrogging in a dynamic urban economic model with endogenousgreen amenities. We analyze whether incoming households choose to settle at the fringe of the city orto jump further away depending on their preferences and the structure of the city. We first provide ananalytical treatment of the conditions and characteristics under which a first leapfrog occurs and showhow the optimal choice is affected by the size of the city, income, commuting costs, as well as the size ofthe area where green amenities are considered. We then study how further leapfrogging and multipleurban rings may appear and be maintained in the long-run equilibrium, and how infill processes takeplace through time.

【文献来源】Peeters D;Caruso G;Cavailhès J;et al.Journal of Regional Science.2015（3）