Publications

• Liotta, C., and van den Bergh, J. (2025). The debate on growth versus environment at the urban scale. Nature Cities, https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-025-00269-z.
• Liotta, C. (2024). What drives inequalities in Low Emission Zones’ impacts on job accessibility? Transport Policy, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2024.10.029. Links to presentation slides, a The Conversation Blog Post and to a France Culture podcast (in French).
• Creutzig, F., et al. (2024). Towards a public policy of cities and human settlements in the 21st century. npj Urban Sustainability 4, 29.
• Liotta, C., Avner, P., Viguié, V., Selod, H., Hallegatte, S. (2024). Climate policy and inequality in urban areas: beyond incomes. Urban Climate 53, 101722. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2023.101722.
  Links to the Twitter thread and VoxEU Blog Post.
• Liotta, C., Viguié, V., Creutzig, F. (2023). Environmental and welfare gains via urban transport policy portfolios across 120 cities. Nature Sustainability, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-023-01138-0.
  Links to the Press Release, Twitter thread, Carbon Brief Guest Post, The Conversation Blog Post, Behind The Paper Blog Post, Le Monde de l’Energie Interview.
• Lepetit, Q., Viguié, V., Liotta, C. (2023). A gridded dataset on densities, real estate prices, transport, and land use inside 192 worldwide urban areas. Data in Brief 47, 108962, ISSN 2352-3409, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.108962.
  Direct link to the data.
• Viguié, V., Liotta, C., Pfeiffer, B., Coulombel, N. (2023). Can public transport improve accessibility for the poor over the long term? Empirical evidence in Paris, 1968–2010. Journal of Transport Geography 106, 103473. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2022.103473.
  Links to the Twitter thread and The Conversation Blog Post.
• Liotta, C., Viguié, V., Lepetit, Q. (2022). Testing the monocentric standard urban model in a global sample of cities. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 103832, ISSN 0166-0462. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2022.103832.
  Link to the Twitter thread.
• Liotta C., Kervinio Y., Levrel H., Tardieu L. (2020). Planning for environmental justice – reducing well-being inequalities through urban greening, Environmental Science & Policy 112, 47-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2020.03.017.
  Links to the Open Access paper, a short summary of the methods, and the media coverage by Libération, Le Parisien and BFM TV.

Working papers

• Liotta, C., Avner, P., Hallegatte, S. (2023). Efficiency and Equity in Urban Flood Management Policies: A Systematic Urban Economics Exploration. Policy Research Working Papers 10292. World Bank Group, Washington, DC.
  Link to the World Bank Blog Post.

Policy reports

• Tardieu L, Viguié V, Hamel P, Lemonsu A, de Munck C., Kervinio Y, Coste L, Claron C, Faure E, Geoffroy E, Liotta C, Mikou M, Ta M-T, Levrel H. (2021). Prise en compte des services écosystémiques dans les décisions d’aménagement urbain – Méthodologie et retour d’expérience pilote IDEFESE menée en Île-de-France. Rapport EFESE, La Documentation Française, France.

Other writings

• Liotta, C., Viguié, V. (2021). Pourquoi les villes continuent-elles à s’étendre ?. Regards croisés sur l’économie, 28, 178-188. https://doi.org/10.3917/rce.028.0178.