Prof. Siqi Zheng’s China Future City Lab held two Mini Urban Economics and Policy Workshops on 30th April and 7th May. The two workshops were attended by more than 30 scholars and students who are mainly from MIT, Harvard, Boston University, and Clark University. The two workshops were chaired by Prof. Siqi Zheng (the morning session) and Prof. Devin Bunten (the afternoon session), both from the department of urban studies and planning, MIT.
The first workshop consisted of 7 paper presentations with the topics focusing on gentrification, neighborhood, subways, market distortions, technology and commercial real estate, etc. The details of each presentation are listed as follows.
- Devin Bunten (MIT): “Yes, Gentrification Displaces People”
- Nate Baum-Snow (Toronto University, editor of Journal of Urban Economics): “The Long-Run Effects of Neighborhood Change on Incumbent Families”
- Siqi Zheng (MIT): “Local Factor Market Distortions in China”
- Lyndsey Rolheiser (Ryerson University): “Postwar Housing and Neighborhood Decline”
- Rui Du (MIT): “Agglomeration, Housing Affordability, and New Firm Formation: The Role of Subway Network in Beijing”
- Junfu Zhang (Clark University): “Subways and Road Congestion”
- Bill Wheaton (MIT): “Technology and the Demand for Commercial Real Estate”
The second workshop consisted of 8 paper presentations with the topics focusing on urban transportation, industrial clusters, industrial policies, air pollution, co-working space, etc. The details of each presentation are listed as follows:
- Christopher Zegras (MIT): “Chasing the City that Could not Stop: Exploring Transportation and Urban Co-development in São Paulo’s History” (with Adriano Borges Costa and Ciro Biderman)
- Amy Glasmeier (MIT): “When the Bottom Falls out of An Industrial Cluster, How Do We Mobilize the After Effects into A New Community Economy? Year Two of the Brockton Experiment”
- Mark Partridge (Ohio State University): “The Effects of State and Local Economic Incentives on Business Start-ups: County-level evidence”
- Alexander Minne van de Minne (MIT): “Land of Opportunity: Early Indicators of the Opportunity Zone Program’s Impact on Commercial Real Estate Values”
- Jeffrey Zabel (Tufts University): “Labor and Housing Market Spillovers” (with Guangbin Hong)
- Siqi Zheng (MIT): “Air Pollution and Elite College Graduates’ Job Location Choice: Evidence from China” (with Weizeng Sun and Xiaonan Zhang)
- Lei Dong (MIT): “Can High-speed Rail Station Support a New Town? Empirical Evidence from China” (with Rui Du, Matthew Kahn, Carlo Ratti and Siqi Zheng)
- Andrea Chegut (MIT): “The Financial Impacts of Co-working: Rental Prices and Market Dynamics in the Commercial Office Market”
