https://macropaperwarehouse.com/authors/marc-teignier/Marc TeignierHugo -- gohugo.ioen-ushttps://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/structural-change-land-use-and-urban-expansion/https://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/structural-change-land-use-and-urban-expansion/<p>This paper asks how cities grow in the process of structural transformation — specifically, whether urban expansion occurs at the intensive margin (higher density within a fixed area) or the extensive margin (larger area). The authors document and explain a persistent decline in urban density in France since 1870, and develop a spatial general equilibrium model in which endogenous land use — land allocated either to agriculture or housing — is the key mechanism linking structural change to urban sprawl.</p>