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Topic: Urban

Interviews

What Do Apartment Tenants Want, and Where Do They Want It? Cities vs. Suburbs Brad Korman, Co-CEO of Korman Communities
Retail Development, Past and Present John Bucksbaum, Chief Executive Officer, Bucksbaum Retail Properties, LLC
The Evolution of the Office Building Marty Burger, CEO of Silverstein Properties
Foreign Capital and New York Real Estate Marty Burger, CEO of Silverstein Properties
The Health of the New York City Real Estate Market Marty Burger, CEO of Silverstein Properties
Cost-of-living and the Appeal of Cities Jessie Handbury, Assistant Professor of Real Estate, Wharton Real Estate Department

Working Papers

#811 · Delineating urban areas using building density Marie-Pierre de Bellefon, Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton and Laurent Gobillon
#810 · Mobility and congestion in urban India Prottoy A. Akbar, Victor Couture, Gilles Duranton, Adam Storeygard
#807 · Place-Based Policies for Development Gilles Duranton and Anthony J. Venables
#307 · An Economic Analysis of Housing Abandonment Benjamin P. Scafidi, Michael H. Schill and Susan M. Wachter
#308 · Polarization and Public Housing in the United States William H. Carter, Michael H. Schill and Susan M. Wachter
#315 · Mixed Income Housing Initiatives in Public Housing Brent W. Ambrose and William Grigsby
#316 · The Differential Impacts of Federally Assisted Housing Programs on Nearby Property Values: A Philadelphia Case Study Chang Moo-Lee, Dennis P. Culhane and Susan M. Wachter
#322 · Mortgage Terminations, Heterogeneity and the Exercise of Mortgage Options Yongheng Deng, John M. Quigley and Robert Van Order
#323 · Loss Aversion and Seller Behavior: Evidence from the Housing Market David Genesove and Christopher J. Mayer
#328 · The Philadelphia Metropolitan Case Study Anita A. Summers
#329 · The Price Elasticity of the Demand for Residential Land Joseph Gyourko and Richard Voith
#330 · Financing New Urbanism Projects Joseph Gyourko and Witold Rybczynski
#331 · Land Use Regulation and New Construction Christopher J. Mayer and C. Tsuriel Somerville
#332 · The Spatial Distribution of Housing-Related Tax Benefits in the United States [2.6MB PDF] Joseph Gyourko and Todd Sinai
#333 · The Spatial Distribution of Affordable Home Loan Purchases in Major Metropolitan Areas: Documentation and Analysis Joseph Gyourko and Dapeng Hu
#350 · A Semiparametric Investigation of Lower-Income Home Mortgage Purchases in the Secondary Mortgage Market Dapeng Hu
#360 · Godfathers Of Sprawl Witold Rybczynski
#366 · Capitalization of Federal Taxes, the Relative Price of Housing, and Urban Form: Density and Sorting Effects Richard Voith and Joseph Gyourko
#367 · An Economic Development Strategy for the City William G. Grigsby
#369 · Financing New Urbanism Joseph Gyourko and Witold Rybczynski
#374 · Their Cities, and Ours Witold Rybczynski
#375 · Reversing Philadelphia’s Population Decline William G. Grigsby
#380 · Another View of Predatory Lending Jack Guttentag
#382 · Urban Decline and Durable Housing Edward L. Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko
#383 · Anistropic Autocorrelation in House Prices Kevin Gillen, Thomas Thibodeau and Susan M. Wachter
#387 · Neighborhood Externality Risk and The Home Ownership Status of Properties Christian A. L. Hilber
#396 · The Changing Spatial Concentration of Income and Poverty Among Suburbs of Large U.S. Metropolitan Areas Janice Fanning Madden
#398 · Measuring Changes in the Spatial Concentration of Income and Poverty Among Suburbs of Large U.S. Metropolitan Areas Janice Fanning Madden
#399 · The Spatial Distribution of Housing-Related Tax Benefits in the United States Joseph Gyourko and Todd Sinai
#404 · The Neighborhood Distribution of Subprime Mortgage Lending Paul S. Calem, Kevin Gillen and Susan M. Wachter
#405 · The Impacts Of Affordable Lending Efforts On Homeownership Rates Roberto G. Quercia, George W. McCarthy and Susan M. Wachter
#407 · Urban Decline and Housing Reinvestment: The Role of Construction Costs and the Supply Side Joseph Gyourko and Albert Saiz
#409 · Managing Metropolitan Futures: The Role of Information Intermediaries Joseph Ferreira, Andrew Reamer and Susan M. Wachter
#417 · Why Does Anybody Still Live Here? Joseph Gyourko and Joseph Tracy
#418 · The Crash and Rebound of Canary Wharf David L. A. Gordon
#419 · The Activities and Benefits of Smart Growth Robert W. Burchell, Anthony Downs, Catherine C. Galley and David Listokin
#420 · Measuring Sprawl Witold Rybczynski
#429 · The Art of the New Urbanist Deal Witold Rybczynski
#433 · Immigration and Housing Rents in American Cities Albert Saiz and Susan M. Wachter
#436 · The (Un)Changing Geographical Distribution of Housing Tax Benefits: 1980 to 2000 Todd Sinai and Joseph Gyourko
#446 · The Rise of the Skilled City Edward L. Glaeser and Albert Saiz
#453 · Is There a Supply Side to Urban Revival? Joseph Gyourko and Albert Saiz
#454 · Architecture and Density Saskia Sassen
#459 · New York City’s Ten Year Capital Plan for Housing Richard T. Roberts, Jerry J. Salama and Michael H. Schill
#474 · Global Financial Centers After 9/11 Saskia Sassen
#475 · Cities and Globalization Witold Rybczynski
#484 · Financing Cities Robert P. Inman
#486 · Urban Growth and Housing Supply Edward L. Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko and Raven E. Saks
#492 · Land Hungry Georgette Chapman Poindexter
#498 · Housing Supply Restrictions Across the United States Raven E. Saks
#499 · Hard Landing Witold Rybczynski
#500 · Balancing Private Development and Public Good Harris M. Steinberg
#511 · Assessing High House Prices: Bubbles, Fundamentals, and Misperceptions Charles Himmelberg, Christopher J. Mayer and Todd Sinai
#516 · The West Philadelphia Story Judith Rodin
#520 · Creative Places Witold Rybczynski
#522 · Assessing High House Prices: Bubbles, Fundamentals, and Misperceptions Charles Himmelberg, Christopher j. Mayer and Todd Sinai
#527 · Immigration and the Neighborhood Albert Saiz and Susan M. Wachter
#529 · Looking Back to Look Forward: What Can We Learn About Urban Development from Philadelphia’s 350 Year History? Joseph Gyourko
#530 · Urban Decline and Durable Housing Edward L. Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko
#534 · A Unified Framework for Measuring Preferences for Schools and Neighborhoods Patrick Bayer, Fernando Vendramel Ferreira and Robert McMillan
#535 · What is a Tree Worth? Green-city Strategies and Housing Prices Susan M. Wachter and Grace Wong
#540 · The Kelo Decision Pamela M. Loughman and Georgette Chapman Phillips
#542 · Rebuilding NOLA Witold Rybczynski
#543 · Who Lives Downtown Today? Eugenie L. Birch
#547 · Subprime Lending: Neighborhood Patterns Over Time Jonathan Hershaff, Susan M. Wachter and Karl Russo
#548 · Superstar Cities Joseph Gyourko, Christopher J. Mayer and Todd Sinai
#554 · The Playground City Joel Kotkin
#555 · Immigration and Real Estate Markets Albert Saiz
#560 · Residential Land Use Regulation in the Philadelphia MSA Joseph Gyourko and Anita A. Summers
#561 · Housing Dynamics Edward L. Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko
#566 · Aggressive Lending and Real Estate Markets Andrey D. Pavlov and Susan M. Wachter
#567 · Status Caste Exchange: Preferences for Race and Poverty Status of Neighbors in Large U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 1970-2000 Janice Fanning Madden
#574 · Urban Lessons from Katrina Jonathan Barnett
#578 · Regional Growth Variability Peter Linneman and Deborah Moy
#579 · Land-Use Regulation, House Prices and The New Social Contract Robert Bruegmann
#581 · How to Fix Detroit Albert B. Ratner
#583 · The Russian Investment Environment David Skinner
#588 · Immigrants, Hispanics, and the Evolution of Housing Prices in the US Albert Saiz
#604 · Residential Land Recapitalization: Equity Returns for Debt Risk Larry Burnett, Caroline Jones and Adam Krug
#606 · Arbitrage in Housing Markets Edward L. Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko
#608 · Urban Housing Markets Joseph Gyourko
#610 · Housing and Behavioral Finance Christopher J. Mayer and Todd Sinai
#621 · The Suburban Archipelago Joel Kotkin
#622 · Garden City Suburbs Robert A.M. Stern
#624 · Urban Housing Demand Todd Sinai
#625 · Spatial Variation in the Risk of Home Owning Todd Sinai
#630 · City Beautiful Gerald A. Carlino and Albert Saiz
#635 · Face-To-Face Places Joel Garreau
#640 · Understanding Commercial Real Estate: Just How Different From Housing Is It? Joseph Gyourko and Joseph Tracy
#643 · Sustainable Homeownership Paul S. Calem, Marsha J. Courchane and Susan M. Wachter
#647 · High Gas Prices and Urbanism Witold Rybczynski
#651 · Stylistic Trends in Multifamily Housing Michael Ytterberg
#656 · Ten Planning Successes John Landis
#659 · Development Regulations and Housing Affordability John Crosland, Jr.
#669 · An Urban Slice of Apple Pie: Rethinking Homeownership in U.S. Cities Georgette Chapman Phillips
#676 · Traditional Architecture and Urbanism Andrés Duany
#677 · New Urbanism and Sprawl Andrejs Skaburskis
#709 · The Do’s and Dont’s of City Finances Robert P. Inman
#710 · The Dispersionist Manifesto Joel Kotkin
#711 · “Shrinking Cities” Revisited Witold Rybczynski and Peter Linneman
#712 · The Demand-Side of Urbanism Witold Rybczynski
#714 · Anatomy of the Beginning of the Housing Boom: U.S. Neighborhoods and Metropolitan Areas, 1993-2009 Fernando Vendramel Ferreira and Joseph Gyourko
#724 · Repeat Sales House Price Index Methodology Chaitra H. Nagaraja, Lawrence D. Brown and Susan M. Wachter
#737 · Power Center Meets Lifestyle Center Brett K. Bannor
#738 · Two Decades of Design and Development Witold Rybczynski
#739 · Are Poor Cities Cheap for Everyone? Non-Homotheticity and the Cost of Living Across U.S. Cities Jessie Handbury
#742 · Land and House Price Measurement in China Yongheng Deng, Joseph Gyourko and Jing Wu
#750 · Growing Through Cities In Developing Countries Gilles Duranton
#753 · Zombie Cities: Urban Form and Population Loss Georgette Chapman Phillips
#754 · The Growth of Cities Gilles Duranton and Diego Puga
#755 · Goods Prices and Availability in Cities Jessie Handbury and David E. Weinstein
#758 · Agglomeration Effects in Colombia Gilles Duranton
#760 · Estimating Racial Price Differentials in the Housing Market Patrick Bayer, Marcus Casey, Fernando Vendramel Ferreira and Robert McMillan
#762 · The Growth of Cities Gilles Duranton and Diego Puga
#765 · Repeat Sales House Price Index Methodology Chaitra H. Nagaraja, Lawrence D. Brown and Susan M. Wachter
#770 · Causal Inference in Urban and Regional Economics Nathaniel Baum-Snow and Fernando Vendramel Ferreira
#771 · Urban Land Use Gilles Duranton and Diego Puga
#772 · Roads and Trade in Colombia Gilles Duranton
#773 · Urban Governance and Development of Informality in China and India Arthur Acocca, Shahana Chattaraj and Susan M. Wachter
#778 · Determinants of City Growth in Colombia Gilles Duranton
#779 · Growing through Cities in Developing Countries Gilles Duranton
#788 · Urban form and driving: Evidence from U.S. Cities Gilles Duranton and Matthew A. Turner
#794 · Urban form and driving: Evidence from US cities Gilles Duranton and Matthew A. Turner
#795 · What Drives Racial and Ethnic Differences in High Cost Mortgages? The Role of High Risk Lenders Patrick Bayer, Fernando Vendramel Ferreira and Stephen L. Ross
#798 · Urban Accessibility: Balancing Land Use and Transportation Gilles Duranton and Erick Guerra
#800 · Urban Revival in America, 2000 to 2010 Victor Couture and Jessie Handbury
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