Devin Michelle Bunten is the Edward H. and Joyce Linde Assistant Professor of Urban Economics and Housing at MIT. We discuss her working paper, People or Parking? (joint with Lyndsey Rolheiser, Assistant Professor of Urban Economics at Ryerson University).

Katherine Levine Einstein, Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston University, joins as guest co-host.

Appendices:

Devin Michelle Bunten: People Before Highways: Boston Activists, Urban Planners, and a New Movement for City Making by Karilyn Crockett

Greg Shill: Good News and Bad News About Parking in London by Henry Grabar

Jeff Lin: Leads us through his quest to find how much land in Manhattan is devoted to cars. He is unable to get a clear answer but asks that anyone who is noble and pure of heart to join him on his quest by tweeting the answer to him.

Katherine Levine Einstein: Outsiders at Home: The Politics of American Islamophobia by Nazita Lajevardi

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Producer: Schuyler Pals.

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