Professor Leah Brooks, economist and Associate Professor of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the George Washington University's Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Affairs, joins the show to discuss Infrastructure Costs, her working paper (joint with Prof. Zachary Liscow, Yale Law School).
Jenny Schuetz, a fellow at the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program, joins as a guest co-host.
Appendices:
Leah Brooks: Riots Long Ago, Luxury Living Today (Emily Badger, NYT)
Jenny Schuetz: I’ve Seen a Future Without Cars, and It’s Amazing (Farhad Manjoo & visualization collaborators, NYT)
Jeff Lin: Vestiges of Transit: Urban Persistence at a Microscale (Leah Brooks & Byron Lutz, Review of Economics and Statistics)
Greg Shill: Discourses of Climate Delay (William Lamb et al, Global Sustainability) (thanks to Giulio Mattioli for sharing on Twitter)
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Producer: Schuyler Pals.
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S1E1 - Leah Brooks: Infrastructure Costs

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Marcus Casey - The Evolution of Black Neighborhoods Since Kerner
Marcus Casey is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution. Author of The Evolution of Black Neighborhoods Since Kerner (with Bradley L. Hardy). [N.B. "Kerner" refers to the Kerner Commission Report on the Causes, Causes, Events, and Aftermaths of the Civil Disorders of 1967, available here.]
Leah Brooks Associate Professor of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the George Washington University’s Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Affairs, and author of the recent paper The Long-Run Impact of the 1968 Washington, DC Civil Disturbance (with Jonathan Rose, Daniel Shoag, and Stan Veuger).
Appendices:
Marcus Casey: (1) Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City by St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton and (2) the TV show Flatbush Misdemeanors on Showtime.
Greg Shill: Measuring Racism and Discrimination in Economic Data by Marcus Casey and Randall Akee.
Jeff Lin: (1) Why Cities Lose: The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide by Jonathan Rodden and (2) The Ecology of a Black Business District by Franklin D. Wilson. [N.B. Check out the Densely Speaking interview with Jonathan Rodden about his book (S1E6, Nov. 5, 2020).]
Leah Brooks: Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism by Paul Sabin.
Follow us on the web or on Twitter: @denselyspeaking, @jeffrlin, @greg_shill, @MarcDCase.
Producer: Schuyler Pals.
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.

S2E4 - Marcus Casey - The Evolution of Black Neighborhoods Since Kerner

Matt Kahn and Mac McComas - Unlocking the Potential of Post-Industrial Cities
Matt Kahn, Provost Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California, and Mac McComas, senior program manager at John Hopkins’ 21st Century Cities Initiative, joins us to discuss their recent book, Unlocking the Potential of Post-Industrial Cities.
Appendices:
Mac McComas: Two episodes of Jennifer Doleac's podcast Probable Causation: Episode 33: Jason Lindo on Violent Media Content and Episode 16: Stephen Billings on Lead and Crime.
Matt Kahn: Stephen A’s World on ESPN.
Greg Shill: Can Removing Highways Fix America’s Cities?
Jeff Lin: Rethinking Detroit by Raymond Owens III, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, and Pierre-Daniel Sarte.
Follow us on the web or on Twitter: @denselyspeaking, @jeffrlin, @greg_shill, @mattkahn1966, and @MacMc21CC.
Producer: Schuyler Pals.
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.

S2E3 - Matt Kahn and Mac McComas - Unlocking the Potential of Post-Industrial Cities

Cailin Slattery, Bidding for Firms
Cailin R. Slattery, Assistant Professor of Business, Economics Division, Columbia Business School, joins us to discuss her paper: Bidding for Firms: Subsidy Competition in the U.S.
David R. Agrawal joins as guest co-host. He is Associate Professor, Martin School of Public Policy & Administration, University of Kentucky, and Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Kentucky, and an author of Local Policy Choice: Theory and Empirics and Relocation of the Rich: Migration in Response to Top Tax Rate Changes From Spanish Reforms.
Appendices:
Cailin Slattery: Planet Money Episode 699: Why Did the Job Cross the Road?
David Agrawal: Making Sense Of Incentives: Taming Business Incentives to Promote Prosperity by Timothy J. Bartik, and A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies by Nathaniel Hendren and Ben Sprung-Keyser.
Jeff Lin: Reply All Episode 132: Negative Mount Pleasant
Greg Shill: Rules of the Road: The Struggle for Safety and the Unmet Promise of Federalism by Sara C. Bronin.
Follow us on the web or on Twitter: @denselyspeaking, @jeffrlin, @greg_shill, @Cailin_Slattery, and @DavidRAgrawal.
Producer: Schuyler Pals.
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.

S2E2 - Cailin Slattery, Bidding for Firms

Rebecca Sanders and Robert Schneider, Fatal Pedestrian Crash Locations and Characteristics
First episode in the new season of Densely Speaking: Conversations About Cities, Economics & Law. We release new interviews periodically. Take a spin through our back catalogue and subscribe so you don't miss our next release.
Rebecca Sanders is the Founder and Principal Investigator of Safe Streets Research & Consulting, LLC.
Robert Schneider is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning.
Tara Goddard is an Assistant Professor at Texas A & M University College of Architecture.
Kelcie Ralph is an Assistant Professor at Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University.
Appendices:
Robert Schneider: International Transport Forum Road Safety Annual Report 2020
Rebecca Sanders: Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices Comments Docket. N.B. The formal comments period has closed, but the agency has advised that "[l]ate-filed comments will be considered to the extent practicable."
Tara Goddard: Let’s Make the Shared Spaces Program Permanent by London Breed (SF mayor)
Kelcie Ralph: The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat & Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet by Nina Teicholz
Greg Shill: Sustainable City Code. N.B. Greg filed (together with Sara Bronin) a comment to the MUTCD rulemaking that Rebecca mentioned in her Appendix.
Jeff Lin: Can Behavioral Interventions Be Too Salient? Evidence From Traffic Safety Messages by Jonathan D. Hall and Joshua Madsen.
Follow us on the web or on Twitter: @denselyspeaking, @jeffrlin, @greg_shill, @DrTaraGoddard, @KMRalph, @PedBikeBob, @rebeccalsanders
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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.

S2E1 - Rebecca Sanders and Robert Schneider, Fatal Pedestrian Crash Locations and Characteristics

Transportation Law Symposium Special - Beth Osborne (Keynote)
Today episode is the sixth and final in a special series of episodes we are running from a first-of-its-kind academic event on law and transportation policy, The Future of Law & Transportation Symposium, hosted by the Iowa Law Review and featuring scholars from multiple disciplines.
After a brief intro from show co-host Greg Shill, Beth Osborne, Director of Transportation for America, speaks. Her remarks are followed by Q&A.; 
Beth Osborne, Director of Transportation for America
Symposium Program
Article ("Unsafe Streets' New Liability") mentioned by Greg in Q&A;
Article ("Rules of the Road: The Struggle for Safety and the Unmet Promise of Federalism") by Sara Bronin relating to her question in Q&A;
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Producer: Schuyler Pals.
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.

S1E1 - Leah Brooks: Infrastructure Costs

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