The (Express)Way to Segregation: Evidence from Chicago (Sara Bagagli)

Sara Bagagli is an Assistant Professor of Real Estate Economics and Finance at London School of Economics and Political Science. …

Procurement and Infrastructure Costs (Zach Liscow)

Zach Liscow is Professor of Law at Yale Law School. From 2022-23, he was the Chief Economist at the White House Office of Management and Budget. We …

How Much Road Does America Have? (Erick Guerra)

Professor Erick Guerra is a Professor and Associate Dean for Research at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design. We discuss his recen…

In a Bad State: Responding to State and Local Budget Crises (David Schleicher)

David Schleicher is the Walter E. Meyer Professor of Property and Urban Law at Yale Law School. He is the author of In a…

Neighborhood Formation and Neighborhood Effects (Dionissi Aliprantis)

Dionisi Aliprantis is an assistant vice president and a senior research economist in the Research Department at the Federal Reser…

Blockbusting and the Challenges Faced by Black Families in Building Wealth through Housing in the Postwar US (Jonathan Rose)

Jonathan Rose is the Historian of the Federal Reserve System and senior ec…

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 A…

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 …

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,…

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.   Appe…

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 t…

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…

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 Col…

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 Econ…

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 Regi…

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 journa…

Evan Mast, 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 …

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 a…

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 p…

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 th…