Mariaflavia (Nina) Harari, Associate Professor of Real Estate and Leonard J. Horwitz Faculty Scholar at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of Cities in Bad Shape: Urban Geometry in India.

Appendices:

Nina Harari: Spatial Spillovers from High-Rise Developments: Evidence from the Mumbai Mills by Michael Gechter and Nick Tsivanidis.

Greg Shill: The Housing Strategy That Has California NIMBYs in a Corner by Conor Dougherty.

Jeff Lin: The Impact of City Shape on Economic Growth by Econimate. Additionally, the Jennifer Roback paper discussed is Wages, Rents, and the Quality of Life.

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Producer: Nathan Spindler-Krage

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Arianna Salazar-Miranda is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Data Science at the Yale School of the environment. She is the author of Exploring the Social Life of Urban Spaces Through AI (with Zhuangyuan Fan, Michael Baick, Keith N. Hampton, Fabio Duarte, Becky P. Y. Loo, Edward Glaeser, and Carlo Ratti).

Appendices:

Arianna Salazar-Miranda: The World in the Year 2000

Greg Shill: Sidewalk Government and Sidewalk Nation: The Life and Law of America's Most Overlooked Resource by Michael Pollack.

Jeff Lin: What Holly Whyte’s “Social Life” Film Can Teach Us Today by Anne Tan-Detchkov at Project for Public Spaces discusses the film in question and Statistical Models and Shoe Leather by David Freedman discusses regression analysis and advocates for broader, holistic observational work within the social sciences.

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Sara Bagagli is an Assistant Professor of Real Estate Economics and Finance at London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research contributes to our understanding of what drives the (unequal) distribution of people and economic activity across space, focusing on the role of transportation infrastructure and urban forms. Her 2023 paper, The (Express)Way to Segregation: Evidence from Chicago, examines the long-established view that highways acted to increase segregation. Did expressways increase racial segregation in urban centers? Professor Bagagli establishes that expressways contributed to racial segregation in Chicago through two channels: (1) local price and amenity effects and (2) barrier effects. From these findings, she then constructs a structural urban model to study the link between urban barriers and racial preferences in shaping the allocation of people across space.

Appendices:

Sara Bagagli: Ann Petry, The Street.

Greg Shill: Pete Saunders, Two Chicagos, Defined.

Jeff Lin: Hammond's Pictorial Travel Atlas of Scenic America. Follow us on the web or on “X,” formerly known as Twitter: @denselyspeaking. Jeff and Greg can be found on Bluesky at @jeffrlin.bsky.social, and @gregshill.com.

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