Journal of Economic Literature
Book Reviews
2026-08-28
Edwin S. Mills of Northwestern University reviews “Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment” by Matthew E. Kahn,. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Explores what is and is not known about the environmental consequences of urban growth. Discusses measuring urban environmental quality; the urban environmental Kuznets curve; income growth and the urban environment--the role of the market; income growth and greener governance; population growth and the urban environment; spatial growth--the environmental cost of sprawl in the United States; and achieving urban and global sustainability. Kahn is Professor of Economics at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. Index.”