Densely Speaking: Recent Episodes
Jeff Lin & Greg Shill
The National Zoning Atlas (Sara Bronin and Scott Markley)Densely Speaking programming note: this is the first episode of our new season.
Sara Bronin, Professor at the Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning and Chair of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, is the Director of the National Zoning Atlas. Scott Markley is the Geospatial Project Coordinator at the National Zoning Atlas and a visiting professor at Cornell.
Appendices:
Scott Markley: Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?
Sara Bronin: Lowcountry at High Tide; The Sirens of Mars.
Greg Shill, Professor of Law and Michael and Brenda Sandler Faculty Fellow in Corporate Law, University of Iowa College of Law: A Research Agenda for US Land Use and Planning Law.
Jeff Lin: House Size and Household Size: The Distributional Effects of the Minimum Lot Size Regulation.
Follow us on the web or on Twitter: @denselyspeaking, @jeffrlin, @greg_shill.Producer: Courtney Campbell
The views expressed on the show are those of the participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Reserve System, or any of the other institutions with which the hosts or guests are affiliated.
Remote Work and City Decline: Lessons From the Garment District (Clay Gillette)
Clay Gillette is the Max E. Greenberg Professor of Contract Law at New York University School of Law. He is the author of Remote Work and City Decline: Lessons from the Garment District, 15 Journal of Legal Analysis 201 (2023).
Appendices:
Clay Gillette: the book In a Bad State (by David Schleicher), work by Joan Didion, TV shows Borgen, Fauda, Shtisel, and The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem, and the movie Oppenheimer.
Greg Shill: the novel A Confederacy of Dunces, the New Yorker short story series Sell Out, and the TV show Rough Diamonds.
Jeff Lin: journal articles Networking off Madison Avenue and The Curley Effect: The Economics of Shaping the Electorate, and Trees? Not in My Backyard. (Jerusalem Demsas) in the Atlantic.
Follow us on the web or on Twitter/X: @denselyspeaking, @jeffrlin, @greg_shill. The hosts are also on Bluesky at @jeffrlin and @gregshill.
Producer: Courtney Campbell
The views expressed on the show are those of the participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Reserve System, or any of the other institutions with which the hosts or guests are affiliated.
Firms, Fires, and Firebreaks: The Impact of the 1906 San Francisco Disaster on Business Agglomeration
James Siodla is an Associate Professor of Economics at Colby College. He is the author of Firms, fires, and firebreaks: The impact of the 1906 San Francisco disaster on business agglomeration. We also discuss related work by him: Clean slate: Land-use changes in San Francisco after the 1906 disaster and Razing San Francisco: The 1906 disaster as a natural experiment in urban redevelopment.
Extra Materials Discussed in this Episode: Sanborn Maps; The Limits of Power
Appendices:James Siodla: Disruptive Effects of Natural Disasters: The 1906 San Francisco Fire by Hanna Schwank and Destruction, Policy, and the Evolving Consequences of Washington, DC’s 1968 Civil Disturbance by Leah Brooks, Jonathan Rose, and Stan Veuger.
Greg Shill: Succession and History versus Expectations in the Spatial Economy: Lessons from Hiroshima by Kohei Takeda and Atsushi Yamagishi.
Jeff Lin: A Long History of a Short Block: Four Centuries of Development Surprises on a Single Stretch of a New York City Street by William Easterly, Laura Freschi, and Steven Pennings.
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Producer: Courtney Campbell
The views expressed on the show are those of the participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Reserve System, or any of the other institutions with which the hosts or guests are affiliated.
The Role of Private Law in Land Use Regulation (Molly Brady)Molly Brady is the Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She is the author of Turning Neighbors into Nuisances. Appendices:Molly Brady: Magic Mike’s Last Dance and This $5,750-a-Month Brooklyn Apartment Has a Smell Test. Greg Shill: the Culdesac development and its reported lease condition that residents not park within 400 meters of the development in Tempe, AZ. Local government law bonus: minutes of the Tempe Development Review Commission meeting discussing this. Jeff Lin: The Rise and Effects of Homeowners Associations, by Wyatt Clarke and Matthew Freedman. Follow us on the web or on Twitter: @denselyspeaking, @jeffrlin, @greg_shill, @mollyxbrady. Producer: Courtney Campbell The views expressed on the show are those of the participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Reserve System, or any of the other institutions with which the hosts or guests are affiliated.
The Impact of WFH on Brick-and-Mortar Retail (Lindsay Relihan)Lindsay Relihan is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business at Purdue University. She is the author of The Impact of Work-from-Home on Brick-and-Mortar Retail Establishments: Evidence from Card Transactions, with James Duguid, Bryan Kim, and Chris Wheat.
Appendices:
Lindsay Relihan: Cities and Covid, Thus Far by Gilles Duranton and Jessie Handbury, Silo Series, and The Mars Trilogy.
Greg Shill: Remote Work Sticks for All Kinds of Jobs, Wall Street Journal.
Jeff Lin: Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar.
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Producer: Courtney Campbell
The views expressed on the show are those of the participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Reserve System, or any of the other institutions with which the hosts or guests are affiliated.
The Work-from-Home Technology Boon and Its Consequences (Andra Ghent)Andra Ghent is Professor of Finance at the University of Utah David Eccles School of Business. She is the author of The Work-from-Home Technology Boon and Its Consequences, with Morris A. Davis and Jesse Gregory.
Appendices:Andra Ghent: the miniseries Show Me a Hero and the book Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It by Nolan Gray. Also mentioned: Natalia Emanuel & Emma Harrington, Working Remotely? Selection, Treatment, and the Market for Remote Work and Emanuel, Harrington & Amanda Pallais, The Power of Proximity to Coworkers: Training for Tomorrow or Productivity Today?
Greg Shill: The Puzzle and Persistence of Biglaw Clustering (summarized in this blog post)
Jeff Lin: Growth in Cities, revisited
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Producer: Courtney Campbell
The views expressed on the show are those of the participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Reserve System, or any of the other institutions with which the hosts or guests are affiliated.
Work From Home and the Office Real Estate Apocalypse (Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh)Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh is the Earle W. Kazis and Benjamin Schore Professor of Real Estate and Professor of Finance at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. He is the author of Work From Home and the Office Real Estate Apocalypse (joint with Arpit Gupta and Vrinda Mittal). Appendices:
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh: The City in Transition: Prospects and Policies for New York by the Temporary Commission on City Finances, City of New York (1977). Greg Shill: Internet Appendix to today’s paper: Asset Pricing Model to Infer Expected Returns and Assortative Matching at the Top of the Distribution: Evidence from the World’s Most Exclusive Marriage Market by Marc Goñi. Jeff Lin: Looking Back to Look Forward: Learning from Philadelphia’s 350 Years of Urban Development by Joseph Gyourko, Robert Margo and Andrew Haughwout.
Follow us on the web or on Twitter: @denselyspeaking, @jeffrlin, @greg_shill, @SVNieuwerburgh. Producer: Courtney Campbell. The views expressed on the show are those of the participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Reserve System, or any of the other institutions with which the hosts or guests are affiliated.
Special Series on History and Urban Economics - Part III This episode is the third and final in a series based on a new special issue on Urban Economics and History in Regional Science and Urban Economics. It contains a series of short conversations with authors and concludes Season 2 of the show.
Today’s Guests:
Ed Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Department of Economics at Harvard University.
Leah Brooks is an Associate Professor at George Washington University’s Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration.
Ting Chen is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Hong Kong Baptist University.
David Nagy is a Junior Researcher at Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), an Adjunct Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), and a Barcelona School of Economics Affiliated Professor.
Yanos Zylberberg is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol.
Jason Barr is a Professor of Economics at Rutgers University-Newark.
Papers Discussed in Today’s Episode:
What Can Developing Cities Today Learn from the Urban Past? by Ed Glaeser
What if You Build It and They Don’t Come? How the Ghost of Transit Past Haunts the Transit Present by Leah Brooks and Genevieve Denoeux
War Shocks, Migration, and Historical Spatial Development in China by Ting Chen and James Kung
Quantitative Economic Geography Meets History: Questions, Answers and Challenges by David Nagy
Urban Economics in a Historical Perspective: Recovering Data with Machine Learning by Pierre-Philippe Combes, Laurent Gobillon, and Yanos Zylberberg
Viewing Urban Spatial History from Tall Buildings by Gabriel Ahlfedlt and Jason Barr
Firms, Fires, and Firebreaks: The Impact of the 1906 San Francisco Disaster on Business Agglomeration by James Siodla
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Hosts: Jeff Lin and Greg Shill.
Special thanks to our outgoing producer Schuyler Pals (Schuyler, you'll be greatly missed - thank you and good luck on the bar exam!)
Our theme music is by Oleksandr Koltsov. Sounds from Ambience, London Street by InspectorJ.
The views expressed on the show are those of the participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Reserve System, or any of the other institutions with which the hosts or guests are affiliated.
Special Series on History and Urban Economics - Part II This episode is the second in a series based on a forthcoming special issue on Urban Economics and History, to be published in the journal Regional Science and Urban Economics. It contains a series of short conversations with multiple authors.
Guests:
Brian Beach is Assistant Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University and Dan Bogart is Professor of Economics at the University of California Irvine.
Robert Margo is Professor of Economics at Boston University.
Alexander Whalley is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Calgary Haskayne School of Business.
Katherine Eriksson is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California Davis and Allison Shertzer is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh.
Papers Discussed in Today’s Episode:
Water Infrastructure and Health in U.S. Cities by Brian Beach.
Infrastructure and Institutions: Lessons from History by Dan Bogart.
Industrialization and Urbanization in Nineteenth Century America by Jeremy Atack, Robert Margo, and Paul Rhode.
150 Years of the Geography of Innovation by Michael Andrews and Alexander Whalley.
Immigrants and Cities during the Age of Mass Migration by Katherine Eriksson and Zachary Ward.
Zoning and Segregation in Urban Economic History by Allison Shertzer, Tate Twinam, and Randy Walsh.
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Hosts: Jeff Lin and Greg Shill.
Producer: Schuyler Pals.
Our theme music is by Oleksandr Koltsov. Sounds from Ambience, London Street by InspectorJ. The views expressed on the show are those of the participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Reserve System, or any of the other institutions with which the hosts or guests are affiliated.
Special Series on History and Urban Economics - Part I This episode is the first in a series based on a forthcoming special issue focused on Urban Economics and History, to be published in the journal Regional Science and Urban Economics. It contains a series of short conversations with multiple authors.
Guests:
Walker Hanlon is Associate Professor of Economics at Northwestern University and Stephan Heblich is Associate Professor and Munk Chair of Economics at the University of Toronto. Maarten Bosker is Professor of International Trade and Development at Erasmas University of Rotterdam. Noel Johnson is Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University. Treb Allen is Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College
Papers Discussed in this Episode:
History and Urban Economics by Walker Hanlon and Stephan Heblich
City Origins by Maarten Bosker
Medieval Cities Through the Lens of Urban Economics by Remie Jedwab, Noel Johnson, and Mark Koyoma
Persistance and Path Dependence: A Primer by Treb Allen and Dave Donaldson
What Future for History Dependence in Spatial Economics by Jeffrey Lin and Ferdinand Rauch
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Hosts: Jeff Lin and Greg Shill.
Producer: Schuyler Pals.
Special theme music for this series: Oleksandr Koltsov Ambience, London Street, A by InspectorJ. The views expressed on the show are those of the participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Reserve System, or any of the other institutions with which the hosts or guests are affiliated.
Does Building New Apartments in Low-Income Areas Cause Displacement? Evan Mast, Assistant Professor of Economics at Notre Dame, is our guest. The focus of the conversation is Evan's paper Local Effects of Large New Apartment Buildings in Low Income Areas (with Brian J. Asquith and Davin Reed).
Kate Pennington, Economist at the U.S. Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies, is our guest co-host. Check out Kate's working paper Does New Housing Cause Displacement?: The Supply and Demand Effects of Construction in San Francisco, which uses a different identfication strategy but reaches similar results.
Appendices:
Evan Mast: Proud Old, Stubborn Old Wicker Park by Robert Cross
Kate Pennington: The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle
Jeff Lin: Razing San Francisco: The 1906 Disaster as a Natural Experiment in Urban Redevelopment by James Siodla
Greg Shill: State and Local Government Blog posts Teaching Cities in “The City” by Clay Gillette and How Uncordinated Land Use and Transportation Laws Thwart Climate Response by Sara Bronin
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Producer: Schuyler Pals.
The views expressed on the show are those of the participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Reserve System, or any of the other institutions with which the hosts or guests are affiliated.
Constitutional Law for NIMBYs? The guests discuss the National League of Cities' Principles of Home Rule for the 21st Century, which two of them (Nestor Davidson and Richard Schragger) helped draft and the third (David Schleicher) has criticized as "Constitutional Law for NIMBYs."
Nestor Davison is the Walsh Professor of Real Estate, Land Use, and Property Law and the Faculty Director of the Urban Law Center at Fordham Law School. Richard Schragger is the Bowen Professor of Law and Karsh Bicentennial Professor of Law at UVA Law School. David Schleicher is Professor of Law at Yale Law School and host of the Digging a Hole podcast.
In addition to the National League of Cities' Principles of Home Rule for the 21st Century, the papers at the heart of the conversation are Do Local Governments Really Have Too Much Power? (by Nestor and Richard) and Constitutional Law for NIMBYs (by David).
Appendices:
Nestor Davison: City-Wide Effects of New Housing Supply: Evidence From Moving Chains by Cristina Bratu, Oskari Harjunen, and Tuukka Saarimaa Supply Shock Versus Demand Shock: The Local Effects of New Housing in Low-Income Areas by Brian Asquith, Evan Mast, and Davin Reed
Richard Schragger: The Last Black Man in San Francisco (movie)
David Schleicher: Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation by Edward Glaeser and David Cutler State Capture: How Conservative Activists, Big Businesses, and Wealthy Donors Reshaped the American States and the Nation by Alexander Hertel-Fernandez
Greg Shill: Sky-High Vaccination Rates and Zero Taxes Make Dubai a Pandemic Boom Town (in The Wall Street Journal)
Jeff Lin: I Changed My Mind About Rent Control by Jerusalem Demsas From Samurai to Skyscrapers: How Historical Lot Fragmentation Shapes Tokyo by Junichi Yamasaki, Kentaro Nakajima, and Kensuke Teshima
Follow us on the web or on Twitter: @denselyspeaking, @jeffrlin, @greg_shill, @davidson_nestor, @RichSchragger, and @ProfSchleich, and check out David's hit podcast (with Samuel Moyn) Digging a Hole: The Legal Theory Podcast.
Producer: Schuyler Pals.
The views expressed on the show are those of the participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Reserve System, or any of the other institutions with which the hosts or guests are affiliated.
Diego Puga's Favorite Urban Economics Papers of 2021 Diego Puga is Professor of Economics at CEMFI in Madrid, Spain. In recent years, he has made a tradition of sharing his favorite urban economics papers of the year (specifically, urban econ articles published in the calendar year). In this interview, we chat about his favorites from 2021. They appear below as well as in this thread. He did similar threads for 2020, 2019, and 2018.
Diego’s Ten Favorite Urban Econ Articles Published in 2021:
- The Internal Spatial Organization of Firms: Evidence from Denmark by Camilo Acosta and Ditte Håkonsson Lygnemark in the Journal of Urban Economics.
- Location as an Asset by Adrien Bilal and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg in Econometrica.
- The Production Function for Housing: Evidence from France by Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, and Laurent Gobillon in the Journal of Political Economy.
- Are Poor Cities Cheap for Everyone? Non-Homotheticity and the Cost of Living Across U.S. Cities by Jessie Handbury in Econometrica.
- East-Side Story: Historical Pollution and Persistent Neighborhood Sorting by Stephan Heblich, Alex Trew, and Yanos Zylberberg in the Journal of Political Economy.
- Building the City: From Slums to a Modern Metroplis by J. Vernon Henderson, Tanner Regan, and Anthony J. Venables in the Review of Economic Studies.
- Planning Ahead for Better Neighborhoods: Long-Run Evidence from Tanzania by Guy Michaels, Dzhamilya Nigmatulina, Ferdinand Rauch, Tanner Regan, Neeraj Baruah, and Amanda Dahlstrand in the Journal of Political Economy.
- The Effect of High-Tech Clusters on the Productivity of Top Inventors by Enrico Moretti in the American Economic Review.
- Commuting and Innovation: Are Closer Inventors More Productive? by Hongyu Xiao, Andy Wu, and Jaeho Kim in the Journal of Urban Economics.
- The Economics of Speed: The Electrification of the Streetcar System and the Decline of Mom-and-Pop Stores in Boston, 1885-1905 by Wei You in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
Appendices:
Diego Puga: Provides examples of areas where urban economists could benefit from more interaction with urban planners to get better information about whether new initiatives are actually doing what we claim they do, including superblocks in Barcelona and the 15 Minute City in Paris. Eg: Super Blocks in Barcelona; The 15 Minute City.
Greg Shill: Musings on the Boston streetcar paper (Economics of Speed), Location as an Asset, and the interaction between real estate prices and firm experimentation, noting the role of Kaldi’s, a local coffee roaster/distributor, in raising the floor for the quality of coffee at locations in St. Louis (where Greg is visiting at Washington University School of Law this semester). Eg: an interview with the founder.
Jeff Lin: On (Not) Reading Papers by Jan Hendrik Kirchner and Reading Books Versus Engaging With Them by Holden Karnofsky.
Follow us on the web or on Twitter: @denselyspeaking, @jeffrlin, @greg_shill, and @ProfDiegoPuga
Producer: Schuyler Pals.
The views expressed on the show are those of the participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Reserve System, or any of the other institutions with which the hosts or guests are affiliated.
Peter Norton, The Past and Future of Driving in High-Tech Cities Peter Norton is an associate professor of history in the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia. He is the author of the new book Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving as well as Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City and Persistent Pedestrianism: Urban Walking in Motor Age America, 1920s-1960s.
Appendices:
Peter Norton: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.
Greg Shill: How Reporters Can Evaluate Automated Driving Announcements by Bryant Walker Smith; Rewriting Our Nation’s Deadly Traffic Manual by Gregory H. Shill and Sara C. Bronin; Did Highways Cause Suburbanization? by Nathaniel Baum-Snow; and Freeway Revolts!: The Quality of Life Effects of Highways by Jeffrey Lin and Jeffrey Brinkman.
Jeff Lin: Changing Lanes: Visions and Histories of Urban Freeways by Joseph F.C. DiMento and Cliff Ellis.
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Producer: Schuyler Pals.
The views expressed on the show are those of the participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Reserve System, or any of the other institutions with which the hosts or guests are affiliated.
Marcus Casey - The Evolution of Black Neighborhoods Since Kerner Marcus Casey is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution. Author of The Evolution of Black Neighborhoods Since Kerner (with Bradley L. Hardy). [N.B. "Kerner" refers to the Kerner Commission Report on the Causes, Causes, Events, and Aftermaths of the Civil Disorders of 1967, available here.]
Leah Brooks Associate Professor of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the George Washington University’s Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Affairs, and author of the recent paper The Long-Run Impact of the 1968 Washington, DC Civil Disturbance (with Jonathan Rose, Daniel Shoag, and Stan Veuger).
Appendices:
Marcus Casey: (1) Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City by St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton and (2) the TV show Flatbush Misdemeanors on Showtime.
Greg Shill: Measuring Racism and Discrimination in Economic Data by Marcus Casey and Randall Akee.
Jeff Lin: (1) Why Cities Lose: The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide by Jonathan Rodden and (2) The Ecology of a Black Business District by Franklin D. Wilson. [N.B. Check out the Densely Speaking interview with Jonathan Rodden about his book (S1E6, Nov. 5, 2020).]
Leah Brooks: Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism by Paul Sabin.
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Producer: Schuyler Pals.
The views expressed on the show are those of the participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Reserve System, or any of the other institutions with which the hosts or guests are affiliated.
Matt Kahn and Mac McComas - Unlocking the Potential of Post-Industrial Cities Matt Kahn, Provost Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California, and Mac McComas, senior program manager at John Hopkins’ 21st Century Cities Initiative, joins us to discuss their recent book, Unlocking the Potential of Post-Industrial Cities.
Appendices:
Mac McComas: Two episodes of Jennifer Doleac's podcast Probable Causation: Episode 33: Jason Lindo on Violent Media Content and Episode 16: Stephen Billings on Lead and Crime.
Matt Kahn: Stephen A’s World on ESPN.
Greg Shill: Can Removing Highways Fix America’s Cities?
Jeff Lin: Rethinking Detroit by Raymond Owens III, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, and Pierre-Daniel Sarte.
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Producer: Schuyler Pals.
The views expressed on the show are those of the participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Reserve System, or any of the other institutions with which the hosts or guests are affiliated.
Cailin Slattery, Bidding for Firms
Cailin R. Slattery, Assistant Professor of Business, Economics Division, Columbia Business School, joins us to discuss her paper: Bidding for Firms: Subsidy Competition in the U.S.
David R. Agrawal joins as guest co-host. He is Associate Professor, Martin School of Public Policy & Administration, University of Kentucky, and Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Kentucky, and an author of Local Policy Choice: Theory and Empirics and Relocation of the Rich: Migration in Response to Top Tax Rate Changes From Spanish Reforms.
Appendices:
Cailin Slattery: Planet Money Episode 699: Why Did the Job Cross the Road?
David Agrawal: Making Sense Of Incentives: Taming Business Incentives to Promote Prosperity by Timothy J. Bartik, and A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies by Nathaniel Hendren and Ben Sprung-Keyser.
Jeff Lin: Reply All Episode 132: Negative Mount Pleasant
Greg Shill: Rules of the Road: The Struggle for Safety and the Unmet Promise of Federalism by Sara C. Bronin.
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Producer: Schuyler Pals.
The views expressed on the show are those of the participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Reserve System, or any of the other institutions with which the hosts or guests are affiliated.
Rebecca Sanders and Robert Schneider, Fatal Pedestrian Crash Locations and Characteristics
First episode in the new season of Densely Speaking: Conversations About Cities, Economics & Law. We release new interviews periodically. Take a spin through our back catalogue and subscribe so you don't miss our next release.
Rebecca Sanders is the Founder and Principal Investigator of Safe Streets Research & Consulting, LLC. Robert Schneider is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning.
Tara Goddard is an Assistant Professor at Texas A & M University College of Architecture.
Kelcie Ralph is an Assistant Professor at Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University.
Appendices:
Robert Schneider: International Transport Forum Road Safety Annual Report 2020
Rebecca Sanders: Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices Comments Docket. N.B. The formal comments period has closed, but the agency has advised that "[l]ate-filed comments will be considered to the extent practicable."
Tara Goddard: Let’s Make the Shared Spaces Program Permanent by London Breed (SF mayor)
Kelcie Ralph: The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat & Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet by Nina Teicholz
Greg Shill: Sustainable City Code. N.B. Greg filed (together with Sara Bronin) a comment to the MUTCD rulemaking that Rebecca mentioned in her Appendix.
Jeff Lin: Can Behavioral Interventions Be Too Salient? Evidence From Traffic Safety Messages by Jonathan D. Hall and Joshua Madsen.
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Producer: Schuyler Pals.
The views expressed on the show are those of the participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Reserve System, or any of the other institutions with which the hosts or guests are affiliated.
Transportation Law Symposium Special - Beth Osborne (Keynote) Today episode is the sixth and final in a special series of episodes we are running from a first-of-its-kind academic event on law and transportation policy, The Future of Law & Transportation Symposium, hosted by the Iowa Law Review and featuring scholars from multiple disciplines.
After a brief intro from show co-host Greg Shill, Beth Osborne, Director of Transportation for America, speaks. Her remarks are followed by Q&A.
Beth Osborne, Director of Transportation for America
Symposium Program
Article ("Unsafe Streets' New Liability") mentioned by Greg in Q&A
Article ("Rules of the Road: The Struggle for Safety and the Unmet Promise of Federalism") by Sara Bronin relating to her question in Q&A
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Producer: Schuyler Pals.
The views expressed on the show are those of the participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Reserve System, or any of the other institutions with which the hosts or guests are affiliated.
Transportation Law Symposium Special: Transportation & Finance Today is the fifth in a special mini-series of episodes we are running from a first-of-its-kind academic event on law and transportation policy, the recent Symposium on The Future of Law & Transportation, hosted by the Iowa Law Review and featuring scholars from multiple disciplines.
After a brief intro from University of Iowa Law Professor and Densely Speaking co-host Greg Shill, each scholar speaks for about 12 minutes, then takes Q&A.
Pamela Foohey (Professor of Law, Indiana University-Bloomington Maurer School of Law): “Bursting the Auto Loan Bubble in the Wake of COVID-19”
Randall Johnson (Professor of Law, Mississippi College School of Law): “Why Illinois Should Eliminate Its Video Tolling Subsidy”
This panel is moderated by University of Baltimore Law Professor Audrey McFarlane.
Symposium Program
Programming note: a new season of Densely Speaking episodes in traditional interview format will begin later in the spring.
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Producer: Schuyler Pals.
The views expressed on the show are those of the participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Reserve System, or any of the other institutions with which the hosts or guests are affiliated.
Transportation Law Symposium Special - Transportation Planning & Land Use II Today's is the fourth in a mini series of episodes we are running from a first-of-its-kind academic event on law and transportation policy, The Future of Law & Transportation Symposium, featuring scholars from multiple disciplines.
After a brief intro from Greg Shill, each scholar speaks and takes Q&A. The panelists are:
Janice Griffith (Suffolk University Professor of Law): “Metropolitan Planning Organizations: Evolving Roles as Transportation Planning Incorporates Environmental and Sustainability Goals”
Noah Kazis (Legal Fellow at the NYU Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, New York University School of Law and the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service): “Transportation, Land Use, and the Sources of Hyper-Localism”
Kenneth Stahl (Professor and Director, Environmental Land Use and Real Estate Law Program, Chapman University, Dale E. Fowler School of Law): “Integrating Transportation Policy into the Land Use Curriculum”
Darien Shanske (Professor of Law, University of California-Davis School of Law) co-author Deb Niemeier (Clark Distinguished Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland A. James Clark School of Engineering): “Subsidizing Sprawl, Segregation and Regressivity: A Deep Dive into Sublocal Tax Districts”
Symposium Program
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The Future of Law & Transportation Symposium: Mobility, Segregation & Polarization
Today's is the third in a special series of episodes we are running from a first-of-its-kind academic event on law and transportation policy, featuring scholars from multiple disciplines.
After a brief intro from Greg Shill, each scholar speaks for about 12 minutes, followed by Q&A.
Clayton Nall (UC Santa Barbara Department of Political Science): “The Road to Inequality and Political Constraints on Legislating a Green New Deal”
Deborah Archer (Professor of Clinical Law and Co-Faculty Director, Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law, New York University School of Law): “Transportation Policy and the Underdevelopment of Black Communities”
Daniel Rodriguez (Harold Washington Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law): “Road Wary: Transportation, Law, and the Problem of Escape”
Symposium Program
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Transportation Law Symposium Special - Rights of Way & Public Space
The Future of Law & Transportation Symposium: Rights of Way & Public Space
Today's is the second in a special series of episodes we are running from a first-of-its-kind academic event on law and transportation policy, featuring scholars from multiple disciplines. Each scholar speaks for about 12 minutes, followed by Q&A.
David Prytherch, Professor, Miami University Department of Geography: “Mobility Justice and the Public Right-of-Way: The Geography of Traffic Law and Design”
Jamila Jefferson-Jones, Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law: “#DrivingWhileBlack as #LivingWhileBlack”
Tara Goddard, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning: “Not ‘Just Semantics’: How the Language and Framing of Transportation Safety Shapes Perception and Practice”
Vanessa Casado Pérez, Associate Professor of Law & Research Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University School of Law: "Reclaiming the Streets: Pedestrianization"
Symposium Program
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Arpit Gupta, Take the Q Train: Value Capture of Public Infrastructure Projects Arpit Gupta is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the New York University Stern School of Business and the co-author of Take the Q Train: Value Capture of Public Infrastructure Projects.
Chris Severen, Senior Economist at the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank and author of Commuting, Labor, and Housing Market Effects of Mass Transportation: Welfare and Identification and Ticket to Ride: Estimating the Costs and Benefits of Rail Transit, joins as guest co-host.
Appendices: Arpit Gupta: Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities, by Alain Bertaud.
Greg Shill: Two working papers by Arpit Gupta, Racial Disparities in Frontline Workers and Housing Crowding During COVID-19: Evidence from Geolocation Data and Urban Flight Seeded the COVID-19 Pandemic Across the United States. See also Urban Flight video abstract here.
Jeff Lin: The Economics of Speed:The Electrification of the Streetcar System and the Decline of Mom-and-Pop Stores in Boston, 1885-1905 by Wei You, and a Jonathan Dingel’s annual collection of job-market candidates whose JM papers fall within spatial economics, Spatial economics JMPs (2020-2021).
Chris Severen: Trains, Buses, People An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit, by Christof Spieler.
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The Future of Law & Transportation Symposium: Transportation Planning & Land Use I
Today's is the first in a mini series of episodes we are running from a first-of-its-kind academic event on law and transportation policy, featuring scholars from multiple disciplines. Thanks to Talking Headways podcast host Jeff Wood, who edited and ran this episode first on his show, for allowing us to feature it here.
After an intro to the Symposium from Greg Shill, each scholar speaks for about 12 minutes.
Jonathan Levine (University of Michigan Urban & Regional Planning): “Transportation Policy Entrenchment: Institutional Barriers to Accessibility-Based Planning”
Audrey McFarlane (University of Baltimore School of Law): “Black Mobility and the Refusal of Funds: Structural Racism and Mass Transportation Decision-Making”
Sara Bronin (UConn Law): “The Failed Federalism of Street and Vehicle Design Standards”
Symposium Program
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Producer: Schuyler Pals.
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Michelle Layser, How Place-Based Tax Incentives Can Reduce Geographic Inequality Michelle Layser is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law and the author of How Place-Based Tax Incentives Can Reduce Geographic Inequality, forthcoming in the Tax Law Review.
Cailin Slattery, Assistant Professor of Business at Columbia Business School, joins as guest co-host.
Appendices:
Michelle Layser: a forthcoming issue of the Fordham Urban Law Journal focusing on opportunity zones.
Greg Shill: It’s Time to Move On From Community Consensus by Jeremy Levine.
Jeff Lin: Neighborhood Dynamics and the Distribution of Opportunity by Dionissi Aliprantis and Daniel R. Carroll and Can You Move to Opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration by Ellora Derenoncourt.
Cailin Slattery: What Determines Where Opportunity Knocks? Political Affiliation in the Selection of Opportunity Zones? by Mary Margaret Frank, Jeffery Hoops, and Rebecca Lester.
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Producer: Schuyler Pals.
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Devin Michelle Bunten, People or Parking? Devin Michelle Bunten is the Edward H. and Joyce Linde Assistant Professor of Urban Economics and Housing at MIT. We discuss her working paper, People or Parking? (joint with Lyndsey Rolheiser, Assistant Professor of Urban Economics at Ryerson University).
Katherine Levine Einstein, Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston University, joins as guest co-host.
Appendices:
Devin Michelle Bunten: People Before Highways: Boston Activists, Urban Planners, and a New Movement for City Making by Karilyn Crockett
Greg Shill: Good News and Bad News About Parking in London by Henry Grabar
Jeff Lin: Leads us through his quest to find how much land in Manhattan is devoted to cars. He is unable to get a clear answer but asks that anyone who is noble and pure of heart to join him on his quest by tweeting the answer to him.
Katherine Levine Einstein: Outsiders at Home: The Politics of American Islamophobia by Nazita Lajevardi
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Note to listeners: this interview was recorded shortly before Election Day.
Our guest is Jonathan Rodden, Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and author of Why Cities Lose: The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide. Jonathan also authored an amicus brief in a partisan gerrymandering case that was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2019 (details below).
Ari Stern, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Washington University in St. Louis, joins as guest co-host. Ari authored a separate amicus brief in support of the same parties in the same SCOTUS partisan gerrymandering case (details below).
Appendices:
Jonathan Rodden: Harvard economist Benjamin Enke’s research on public opinion and the distinction between moral universalism and moral communalism.
Greg Shill: The Road to Inequality: How the Federal Highway Program Polarized America and Undermined Cities by Clayton Nall and Clayton's interview with Sam Sklar.
Jeff Lin: Discussion of long-run urban dynamics in (1) the short story “More Stately Mansions” by John Updike in the collection Trust Me, and (2) Portage and Path Dependence by Hoyt Bleakley and Jeffrey Lin.
Ari Stern: The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel
Amicus briefs authored by Jonathan and Ari in a recent SCOTUS partisan gerrymandering case:
Jonathan Rodden: Brief for Common Cause et al. as Brief of Amici Curiae in Support of Appellees, Rucho v. Common Cause, 139 S.Ct. 2484 (2019) (No. 18-422).
Ari Stern: Brief for Common Cause et al. as Amicus Brief of Mathematicians, L. Professors, and Students in Support of Appellees and Affirmance, Rucho v. Common Cause 139 S.Ct. 2484 (2019) (No. 18-422).
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Our guest is Katherine Levine Einstein, an Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston University and an author of Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America's Housing Crisis. Her co-authors David Glick and Maxwell Palmer are professors in the same department.
Michael Hankinson, Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University, joins as guest co-host.
Appendices:
Katherine Levine Einstein: Driving Turnout: The Effect of Car Ownership on Electoral Participation by Justin de Benedictis-Kessner and Maxwell Palmer.
Greg Shill: ACBNY v. City of New York (SDNY court decision from October 2020 holding NYC liable for failing to make its crosswalks accessible to the vision-impaired). Greg also wrote a twitter thread on the decision and some broader implications.
Jeff Lin: The Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps by Michael Blanding
Michael Hankinson: Bringing the polls to the people: How increasing electoral access encourages turnout but exacerbates political inequality by Daniel de Kadt
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Professors Ganesh Sitaraman, Morgan Ricks, and Chris Serkin are Professors of Law at Vanderbilt Law School.
Professor Michelle Layser, an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois College of Law, joins as guest co-host for this discussion.
Appendices:
Ganesh Sitaraman: Jump Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream by Jonathan Gruber and Simon Johnson.
Chris Serkin: Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America’s Housing Crisis by Katherine Levine Einstein, David Glick, and Maxwell Palmer.
Michelle Layser: How Place-Based Tax Incentives Can Reduce Geographic Inequality by Michelle Layser.
Greg Shill: Why Cities Lose: The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Divide by Jonathan Rodden.
Jeff Lin: Local Ties in Spatial Equilibrium by Mike Zabek.
Follow us on the web or on Twitter: @denselyspeaking, @jeffrlin, @greg_shill. Ganesh is @GaneshSitaraman, Morgan is @MorganRicks1, and Chris avoids twitter but can occasionally be found @serkinc. Michelle is @LayserTax.
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Professor Allison Shertzer, Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh, joins the show to discuss her working paper, Racial Segregation in Housing Markets and the Erosion of Black Wealth (joint with Profs. Prottoy A. Akbar, Sijie Li, and Randall P. Walsh).
Professor Devin Michelle Bunten, the Edward H. and Joyce Linde Assistant Professor of Urban Economics and Housing at MIT, joins the show as guest co-host.
Appendices:
Allison Shertzer: covid-related shutdowns of camps and schools prompted new uses of attics and reflections on differential impacts of the pandemic, including on parents
Greg Shill: Battle of Lincoln Park: Urban Renewal and Gentrification in Chicago by Daniel Kay Hertz and Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing In America by Conor Dougherty
Jeff Lin: A Sense of Where You Are by Devin Bunten
Devin Michelle Bunten: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson and a podcast interview on the subject with Chris Hayes
Follow us on the web or on Twitter: @denselyspeaking, @jeffrlin, @greg_shill. Allison Shertzer can be found at @econhist_allday and Devin Michelle Bunten at @devin_mb.
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Professor Conrad Ciccotello, director of and professor at the Reiman School of Finance in the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver, joins the show to discuss his working paper, Gender and Geography in the Boardroom: What Really Matters for Board Decisions? (joint with Profs. Zinat Alam, Mark Chen, and Harley Ryan).
Note: the interview and Appendices comprise the first 50 minutes. For this episode, we also have a bonus Appendix—-the final 10 minutes is a conversation between Conrad and Greg about the switch to virtual work by boards of directors and how it interacts with Conrad's experience on boards of directors and his research on geography and corporate governance.
Appendices:
Conrad Ciccotello: Gender, Geography and the Boardroom (in The Corporate Board, Sept.-Oct. 2017), by Profs. Zinat Alam, Mark Chen, Conrad Ciccotello, and Harley Ryan
Greg Shill: How Close Is Close? The Spatial Reach of Agglomeration Economies, by Profs. Stuart Rosenthal & William Strange, Journal of Economic Perspectives Summer 2020
Jeff Lin: The Internal Geography of Firms, by Profs. Dominick Bartelme & Oren Ziv, working paper
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Professor Leah Brooks, economist and Associate Professor of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the George Washington University's Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Affairs, joins the show to discuss Infrastructure Costs, her working paper (joint with Prof. Zachary Liscow, Yale Law School).
Jenny Schuetz, a fellow at the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program, joins as a guest co-host.
Appendices:
Leah Brooks: Riots Long Ago, Luxury Living Today (Emily Badger, NYT)
Jenny Schuetz: I’ve Seen a Future Without Cars, and It’s Amazing (Farhad Manjoo & visualization collaborators, NYT)
Jeff Lin: Vestiges of Transit: Urban Persistence at a Microscale (Leah Brooks & Byron Lutz, Review of Economics and Statistics)
Greg Shill: Discourses of Climate Delay (William Lamb et al, Global Sustainability) (thanks to Giulio Mattioli for sharing on Twitter)
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