Tom Cui @tom-cui.com · Dec 15

Part of what's going on here is that these aren't elasticities estimated separately for each city, but implied elasticities coming out of a cross-metro regression. Takeaway is still clear though - Paris is a little more housing elastic than avg, driven by having more "regulatory flexibility"

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Tom Cui · Dec 15

A dataset I really like is the WSF dataset on building area and heights. Here is the *height* data for London vs. Paris, normalized at the same scale. I think it's suggestive that Parisian suburbs are more willing to develop taller on scarce urban land. geoservice.dlr.de/web/maps/eoc...