Densely Speaking

Jeff Lin & Greg Shill
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Densely Speaking: Conversations About Cities, Economics & Law

  1. 4d ago

    Exploring the Social Life of Urban Spaces Through AI (Arianna Salazar-Miranda)

    Exploring the Social Life of Urban Spaces through AI (Arianna Salazar-Miranda) Welcome to the fifth season of Densely Speaking! Subscribe today for automatic delivery of future interviews, and please take a moment to rate and review us—it helps others find the show and become introduced to wonderful authors doing cutting-edge work on cities, economics & law. 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. Follow us on the web and on Bluesky at @jeffrlin.bsky.social and @gregshill.com. Producer: Nathan Spindler-Krage 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.

  2. 04/21/2025

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

    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. 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. Producer: Nathan Spindler-Krage 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.

  3. 03/21/2025

    Procurement and Infrastructure Costs (Zach Liscow)

    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 discuss his recent article, Procurement and Infrastructure Costs (with William Nober and Cailin Slattery), which collects new project-level data and surveys of state DOT officials to document variation in infrastructure procurement costs across states and identify cost drivers, including capacity and competition. Appendices:   Zach Liscow: Robert Kagan, Adversarial Legalism   Greg Shill: Brian Potter, Why Can’t the U.S. Build Ships?   Jeff Lin: Abhay Aneja & Guo Xu, Strengthening State Capacity: Civil Service Reform and Public Sector Performance during the Gilded Age   Follow us on the web or on “X,” formerly known as Twitter: @denselyspeaking. Jeff, Greg, and Zach can be found on Bluesky at @jeffrlin.bsky.social, @gregshill.com, and @zliscow.bsky.social. Producer: Nathan Spindler-Krage   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.

  4. 02/24/2025

    How Much Road Does America Have? (Erick Guerra)

    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 recent article,Urban Roadway in America: The Amount, Extent, and Value (with Gilles Duranton & Xinyu Ma), which provides the first comprehensive estimate of the amount, share, and value of roadways across over 300 U.S. metro areas. Appendices: Erick Guerra: Erick Guerra, Overbuilt: The High Costs and Low Rewards of US Highway Construction. Greg Shill: Jeffrey Brinkman & Jeffrey Lin, Freeway Revolts! The Quality of Life Effects of Highways. Jeff Lin: Foursquare OS Places. 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. Greg also has a Substack newsletter. Producer: Nathan Spindler-Krage 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.

  5. 09/23/2024

    In a Bad State: State & Local Budget Crises (David Schleicher)

    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 Bad State: Responding to State and Local Budget Crises. He also co-hosts the podcast Digging a Hole with YLS colleague Samuel Moyn. Appendices: David Schleicher: New York Times article The Queen Bee of Bidenomics and American Compass proposal On Infrastructure Financing. Greg Shill: Fire & Steam: How the Railways Transformed Britain by Christian Wolmar. Jeff Lin: Interstate: Highway Politics and Policy Since 1939 by Mark Rose and Raymond Mohl. Follow us on the web or on “X,” formerly known as Twitter: @denselyspeaking, @jeffrlin, @greg_shill, and @ ProfSchleich. Producer: Nathan Spindler-Krage 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.

  6. 08/07/2024

    Neighborhood Formation and Neighborhood Effects (Dionissi Aliprantis)

    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 Reserve Bank of Cleveland, the director of the Bank’s Program on Economic Inclusion, and the founding director of the Math Movement. He is the author of “Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves”: A Review Essay with Daniel Hartley. Appendices: Dionissi Aliprantis: Brilliant.org and Vsauce on The Banach-Tarski Paradox Greg Shill, Professor of Law & Michael and Brenda Sandler Faculty Fellow in Corporate Law, University of Iowa College of Law: The Radical Fair Housing Act, by Noah Kazis Jeff Lin: 3Blue1Brown Series on Neural Networks 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.

  7. 07/08/2024

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

    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 economist and economic advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He is the co-author of Blockbusting and the Challenges Faced by Black Families in Building Wealth through Housing in the Postwar United States (with Daniel Hartley). Other Materials Mentioned: A Spatial Animation of Blockbusting Racial Segregation in Housing Markets and the Erosion of Black Wealth The Saturday Evening Post: Confessions of a Block-Buster Appendices: Jonathan Rose: East West Street: On the Origins of “Genocide” and “Crimes Against Humanity” Greg Shill: Detroit’s Birwood Wall: Hatred and Healing in the West Eight Mile Community. Jeff Lin: Urban Life in the Distant Past: The Prehistory of Energized Crowding (Urban Archaeological Pasts). 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 Banks of Philadelphia or Chicago, the Federal Reserve System, or any of the other institutions with which the hosts or guests are affiliated.

  8. 05/20/2024

    The National Zoning Atlas (Sara Bronin and Scott Markley)

    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.

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