Spatial impacts of the creation of Brasília: A natural experiment

Grimes, Arthur; Matlaba, Valente José; Poot, Jacques

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“…The current location had originally only some 1,000 indigenous residents, but the current population is estimated at more than 4,7 million (figures of 2021) 4 . The relocation of the capital from Rio de Janeiro to this location drew on several arguments, including developing and colonializing the hinterland, providing more security for administrator and residents and creating a new identity reflecting independence (Grimes et al, 2016;Bravo, 2019;Faria and Pescatori, 2019).…”

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Urban Greening for New Capital Cities. A Meta Review

Vries

Timo²

2021

Front. Sustain. Cities

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In light of the discussions on relocating the capital city of Indonesia to a new location in Kalimantan, and create a new green capital city (referred to as IKN), the purpose of this meta-review paper is learn from experiences from other relocations of capital cities and creations of green cities in the world. Specific emphasis is hereby given to urban greening and gentrification. This article applies a meta-analytical approach by connecting the basic tenets of the 8R framework of responsible land management to assess the pros and cons of a selected set of capital city relocations and green cities. From the comparison, it is possible to generate general recommendations for Indonesia's new green capital city. The comparison reveals that each of the selected cases falls short in one or more aspects of the 8R framework. In all cases, constructing green capitals requires a mixed and integrated land use planning, a transparent regulatory framework toward land use control, extensive consultation with both local, national and international stakeholders, and participation with local residents. Only under these conditions, one can ensure ownership, respect and trust in the decision. The quandaries highlight the complexity of capital city relocation and green city creation. The originality lies in the specific land management framework perspective and discursive analysis of documented discourses on constructing new capital and green cities. This provides new options for devising and extending regulatory guidelines and for assigning responsibilities for such new mega-endeavors. Given the conceptual and discursive character of the paper, a limitation of the approach may be that there are no specific empirical data collected, yet several recommendations for further research include expanding the boundary work between the land management, the spatial planning and governance domains.

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Urban Greening for New Capital Cities. A Meta Review

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Timo²

2021

Front. Sustain. Cities

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“…A third example is the politically-driven choice, in 1956, of Brasilia as Brazil's new capital together with a system of radial highways built from the new capital to the rest of the country. Both Morten and Oliveira (2016) and Grimes et al (2017) find that the new road network led to an increase in the population of the country's western regions. Morten and Oliveira find a positive influence also on increased inter-regional trade; however, Grimes et al find no evidence of per capita income effects in these regions.…”

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Infrastructure and Regional Economic Growth

Grimes

2020

Handbook of Regional Science

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This chapter outlines two models for analysing the relationship between infrastructure and regional growth, and discusses relevant empirical examples. The first model adopts a standard spatial equilibrium approach, and shows that the effect of new infrastructure on regional activity depends on its direct impacts on local productivity, local amenities and the price of non-traded goods, especially housing. These impacts are determined, in part, by how existing characteristics of the region complement the specific investment. If infrastructure contributes positively to real amenity-adjusted net wages, the local region increases its attractiveness and the result is an influx of firms and individuals to the region. In turn, this has dynamic effects that may amplify or attenuate the initial growth impetus. It is also possible that an infrastructure project contributes negatively to real amenity-adjusted net wages, thereby imparting a negative influence on equilibrium regional activity. The second model treats a major infrastructure investment as a real option that gives private sector developers the option, but

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“…natural resources present in this area date back to 1789 (GRIMES; MATLABA;POOT, 2017). This initiative was entered into the Brazilian constitution in 1891 but only was carried out under President Juscelino Kubitschek.…”

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Essays on the use of nightligts to measure economics performance

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This thesis consists of three essays on the use of nightligts to measure economic activity in two developing countries. In the first essay, we analyze the effect of the Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon (PPCDAm) on economic activity in Brazil. The PPCDAm was an initiative of the Brazilian government that aimed to reduce the high rates of deforestation that the country was experiencing at the beginning of the 2000s. Although the program was directed directly to an environmental problem, it could indirectly have effects on economic activity since part of the productive activities in the Amazon are linked to deforestation. To do that, we use two empirical approaches: first, we compare the economic activity (measured as night light density) of municipalities inside and outside Brazilian Amazon before and after PPCDAm implementation in a difference in difference approach. Our results reveal that municipalities inside Amazon experiment a descrease in night lights intensity after 4 year of implementation of PPCDAm. Second, we exploit the geographical limits between Brazil and the other neighboring countries with which Brazil shares part of the Legal Amazon in order to estimate the effect of PPCDAm on economic activity. Specifically, we used regression discontinuity approach, which permits us to compare the economic activity, measured as the intensity of lights at night, on the border of the Brazilian Amazon Forest with its close neighbors. We estimated a regression discontinuity models year by year in order to understand the evolution of the economic activity before and after PPCDAm implementation. The results reveal that before the PPCDAm implementation the night light intensity in the Brazilian border was higher than its relative neighbors, however after the policy its neighbors experience high intensity during the three first years. In the second essay, we take advantage of a natural experiment - the creation of new Brazil capital (Brasília) in the decade of the 60’s – and the subsequent construction of a new road system to analyze the persistence of public investment in road infrastructure on economic activity. The findings show that microregions located near the highway corridor experiment higher night light intensity relative to microregions faraway. In the last essay, exploiting the international coffee price boom and municipal coffee intensity production, we study how commodities price shocks affect local economic activity in Colombia. Our results indicate that, on average, coffee-producing municipalities experience greater luminosity after the unexpected increase in international coffee prices than non-producing municipalities. Keywords: Nighttime Light. Public Policy. Developing country.

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Spatial impacts of the creation of Brasília: A natural experiment

Cited by 10 publications

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Urban Greening for New Capital Cities. A Meta Review

Urban Greening for New Capital Cities. A Meta Review

Infrastructure and Regional Economic Growth

Essays on the use of nightligts to measure economics performance

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