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ResearchResearch SymposiumBiography and Research Papers2006 Symposium Agenda (61 KB, PDF) Michael A. Bernstein Michael A. Bernstein is Professor of History and Associated Faculty-Member in Economics at the University of California, San Diego UCSD). The author of several books and numerous articles on the modern history of the United States, he focuses his research on the exploration of the connections between political and economic processes in industrialized societies as well as the interaction of economic knowledge and professional expertise in those processes as a whole. Professor Bernstein was recently appointed Dean of Arts and Humanities Economic Theory and Urban History: Models and Narratives in Conflict (229 KB, PDF) Jan K. Brueckner Jan K. Brueckner is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Irvine. He received an A.B. from UC Berkeley in 1972 and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1976, and was a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before coming to UCI in 2005. He has served as visiting professor at UC Santa Barbara and UC San Diego, and has been a visiting scholar at many foreign universities. Gentrification and Neighborhood Housing Cycles: Will America’s Future Downtowns Be Rich (651 KB, PDF) James M. Buckley James M. Buckley is President of Citizens Housing Corporation (CHC), a San Francisco-based, non-profit developer of low-income housing in California. CHC has a portfolio of more than 2,000 units, including construction of new tax credit-financed properties, renovation and preservation of threatened HUD-subsidized existing projects, and development of transit-oriented, mixed-use sites. Prior to joining CHC, Mr. Buckley was a Vice President of BRIDGE Housing Corporation under the leadership of Don Terner. Mr. Buckley holds a Master's Degree in City and Regional Planning and a Ph.D. in Architecture, both from U.C. Berkeley. He is a board member of the Vernacular Architecture Forum and the Society of City and Regional Planning History, and he has taught at San Francisco State University and the city planning program at U.C. Berkeley. Philip J. Ethington Philip J. Ethington is Professor of History and Political Science and Associate Dean for Regional Initiatives in the Information Services Division at the University of Southern California. He is North American Editor of the journal Urban History (Cambridge University Press). Ethington is the author of The Public City: The Political Construction of Urban Life in San Francisco, 1850-1900 (Cambridge 1994). His digital publications include "Los Angeles and the Problem of Urban Historical Knowledge," American Historical Review 105:5 (December 2000), (the first online-only multimedia essay published by this journal, on http://Historycooperative.org. For direct link: http://cwis.usc.edu/dept/LAS/history/historylab/LAPUHK/index.html. He is currently completing a dual print- and online book: Ghost Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1900-2001: a Cartography of Time--a study of global political economy, racial segregation, visual culture, and the rebuilt spatial environment. The Haunted Landscapes of Los Angeles: A Cartography of Time, 1940-2000 (3 MB ,PDF) Genevieve Giuliano Genevieve Giuliano is Professor and Senior Associate Dean of Research and Technology in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California, and Director of the METRANS joint USC and California State University Long Beach Transportation Center. She also holds courtesy appointments in Civil Engineering and Geography. Professor Giuliano's research focus areas include relationships between land use and transportation, transportation policy analysis, and information technology applications in transportation. She has published over 120 papers, and has presented her research at numerous conferences both within the US and abroad. Professor Giuliano is a former faculty fellow of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and former member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. She serves on the Editorial Boards of Urban Studies, Journal of Transportation and Statistics, and Transport Policy. She is a member and past Chair of the Executive Committee of the Transportation Research Board, and has been named a National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences. She has participated in several National Research Council policy studies; currently she is on the Committee for Global Climate Change and Transportation. For recent publications, see http://www.usc.edu/schools/sppd/research/publications/index.html Carol E. Heim Carol E. Heim is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she also is affiliated with the Center for Public Policy and Administration and the Political Economy Research Institute. Her primary fields are economic history and urban and regional economics and policy. Her work has appeared in the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Economic History Review, International Regional Science Review, Journal of Economic History, and Regional Studies. Her publications include "Structural Changes: Regional and Urban," in The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, vol. 3, The Twentieth Century, eds. Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman (Cambridge, 2000) and "Leapfrogging, Urban Sprawl, and Growth Management: Phoenix, 1950-2000," American Journal of Economics and Sociology 60 (January 2001): 245-83. She has studied decline in older industrial regions and the effects of spatial policies in Europe and the United States. Her current research interests include urban property development, planning, and land use policy in U.S. metropolitan areas. She has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and currently holds a David C. Lincoln Fellowship in Land Value Taxation from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy for a project entitled “Municipal Fiscal Structures and Land-Based Growth in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area.” Border Wars: Tax Revenues, Annexation, and Urban Growth in Phoenix (586 KB, PDF) Christian L. Redfearn Christian L. Redfearn, Ph.D., is interested in research in applied microeconomics, applied econometric, urban and regional economics, real estate finance, and price index construction. He is currently involved in both domestic and international research projects, including Swedish housing markets, residential real estate markets in Singapore, and Los Angeles Basin Real Estate Submarket Dynamics. Professor Redfearn's work has been published in the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, and Real Estate Economics. Stuart Rosenthal Stuart S. Rosenthal is a Professor in the economics department at Syracuse University and Senior Research Associate in the University’s Center for Policy Research. He has held previous positions at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of British Columbia, and the Department of Economics at Virginia Tech University. Professor Rosenthal has written extensively in all areas of urban, regional, and housing economics. He has examined the effect of various tax policies on housing markets, racial disparities in housing and mortgage markets, mortgage finance, homeownership, and housing demand and supply. Additional work has focused on the determinants of real estate prices, urban quality of life, and factors that contribute to urban renewal and decay, including spatial mismatch between where families live and work, and the role of various housing policies. A further branch of research has examined the extent to which different spatial patterns of economic activity foste r productivity and growth, and related effects on urban labor markets. This includes work on the influence of agglomeration on labor supply and wage rates, as well as the effect of agglomeration on births of new companies. Professor Rosenthal served on the AREUEA Board of Directors from 1999 to 2001. He also serves on the editorial boards for the Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Housing Economics, Economics Bulletin, and the Journal of Housing Research. He is a Fellow of the Homer Hoyt School of Advanced Studies in Real Estate and Urban Economics. Professor Rosenthal received his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, in 1986. Old Homes, Externalities, and Poor Neighborhoods A Model of Urban Decline and Renewal (219 KB, PDF) Philip Scranton Philip Scranton is University Board of Governors Professor, History of Industry and Technology, at Rutgers University, where he directs the MA-History program (Camden) and assisted in developing a Ph.D. field in the History of Technology, Environment and Health (New Brunswick). He served the Georgia Institute of Technology as Kranzberg Professor of the History of Technology and Science, 1997-99. Prof. Scranton also directs the Hagley Museum & Library's research arm, the Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society, with responsibility for a seminar series, twice-yearly conferences, short-term fellowships, and consultation on collections, programs, and planning. During 2003-04, he held the Lindbergh Chair in Aeronautic and Aerospace History at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. His current research concerns state-business relationships in Cold War technological innovation, particularly focused on jet propulsion, instrumentation, materials, and spacecraft. Evacuating the City, Conceptually: Considering the Production and Consumption of Postwar American Cities (90 KB, PDF) Kenneth A. Small Kenneth A. Small, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California at Irvine, specializes in urban, transportation, and environmental economics. Recent research has concentrated on urban highway congestion, measurement of value of time and reliability, effects of fuel efficiency standards, public transit pricing, and the role of fuel taxes in managing external costs of automobiles. He served five years as Co-Editor of the international journal, Urban Studies, and is now Associate Editor of Transportation Research B as well as a member of the editorial boards of four other professional journals. He has served on several study committees of the National Research Council, most recently one that examined a federal program on congestion management and air quality. He has advised the Canadian Royal Commission on National Passenger Transportation, the European Union, the South Coast Air Quality Management District (where he served on a scientific advisory committee), and the World Bank. At Irvine, he previously served as Chair of Economics and Associate Dean of Social Sciences. William Strange William Strange joined the Rotman School of Management from the University of British Columbia in 2001. At UBC, he served as Chair of the Urban Land Economics Division and Director of the Centre for Real Estate and Urban Land Economics. Professor Strange's research and teaching concern urban economics and real estate. He has published articles on a wide range of topics. Some have dealt with agglomeration, the concentration of population in cities and of firms in industry clusters like the Silicon Valley. Other research has analyzed private government, collective institutions that combine the features of the traditional private and public sectors like community associations, business improvement districts, private schools, and gated communities. Professor Strange also has carried out research on a number of issues pertinent to real estate investment, many on the general topic of investment under uncertainty. The Uncertain City: Competitive Instability, Skills, Innovation and the Strategy of Agglomeration (236 KB, PDF) Mark Wild Mark Wild received his doctorate from the University of California at San Diego. Since 2002 he has been assistant professor of history at California State University Los Angeles, where he specializes in modern American and urban history. He is the author of Street Meeting: Multiethnic Neighborhoods in Early Twentieth Century Los Angeles, as well as numerous articles on immigration, ethnic, religious, and urban history. His current research focuses on relationships between religious leaders, secular activists, and social welfare programs from the 1950s to the 1980s. Kerry Vandell Kerry Vandell holds the Tiefenthaler Chair in Real Estate and Urban Land Economics at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. He has, however, accepted an appointment at the University of California, Irvine, and will be there in the Fall of 2006. Professor Vandell is a Past President of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA) and past Co-Editor of Real Estate Economics. He is a Fellow of the Urban Land Institute and Fellow and board member of the Homer Hoyt Advanced Studies Institute. He has taught previously at Harvard, University of California-Berkeley, and SMU. Professor Vandell has researched and consulted widely in areas of the economics of urban amenities, real estate market dynamics, credit rationing, and mortgage default risk. His teaching specializations include real estate finance, equity investment, and commercial and residential development. Professor Vandell is currently involved in research on the nature of architecture and urban design as economic amenities, the potential impact of restructuring the mortgage interest and property tax deduction on homeownership, an economic perspective on environmental justice issues, and the valuation of complex real property interests. |
