Public Policy and Urban Planning – Theory and Empirical Analysis

July 17-26, 2006

Lecturers: Gerrit Knaap, Yan Song, and Chengri Ding;

Senior Assistant: Arnab Chakraborty

Urban Policy and Planning

Day	Topics
July 17 (Mon): AM 8:15-8:45 8:45-9:45 10:00-11:45	Introducing this Module Urban problems as market failures (Dr. Knaap) Moore, T., 1978, Why Allow Planners to do What They Do? A Justification from Economic Theory, Journal of the American Institute of Planners, October: 387-97. Brueckner, Jan K. Urban sprawl: Diagnosis and remedies, International Regional Science Review 23 (2000) 160-171. Public Pricing (Dr. Knaap) Bird, Richard M., Getting it right: Financing urban development in china
July 17 (Mon): PM 1:00-2:45 3:00-4:45	Introducing scientific methods (Dr. Knaap) Yang, Yung Y, Basic Concepts of Research in Economics Introducing Portland and Portland-area data (Arnab Chakraborty)
July 18 (Tue): AM 8:15-9:45 10:00-11:45	Hedonic price theory (Dr. Knaap) · Rosen, S., "Hedonic Prices and Implicit Markets: Product Differentiation in Pure Competition," Journal of Political Economy, January 1974. Hedonic price examples (Dr. Knaap) · Brigham, Eugene F., 1965, The Determinants of Residential Land Values, Land Economics 41, 325-334. · Potepan; Michael J. 1996, Explaining Intermetropolitan Variation in Housing Prices, Rents and Land Prices, Real Estate Economics, Vol. 24.
July 18 (Tue): PM 1:00-2:45 3:00-4:45	Hedonic Studies using Portland-area data (Dr. Knaap) · Knaap, Gerrit J., Chengri Ding, and Lewis Hopkins, Does Planning Matter? 2001, The Effects of Light Rail Plans on Land Values in Station Areas, Journal of Planning, Education, and Research, 21,1: 32-39. · Song, Yan and Gerrit-Jan Knaap, 2003, New Urbanism and Housing Values: A Disaggregate Assessment, Journal of Urban Economics, 54: 218-238. Introducing statistical analysis (Arnab Chakraborty)
July 19 (Wed): AM 8:15-9:45 10:00-11:45	Zoning and land use controls (Dr. Knaap) NEW: Smart Growth Principle (T. Moore) NEW: Zoning and Land Use Controls (G. Knaap) · Pendall, R. 2000. “Local land-use regulation and the chain of exclusion,” Journal of the American Planning Association 66: 125-142 · Quigley, John and Larry Rosenthal, The Effects of Land Use Regulation on the Price of Housing: what do we know, what can we learn? Growth management and UGBs (Dr. Knaap) · Knaap, Gerrit J. 1985. The price effects of UGB in Metropolitan Portland, Oregon. Land Economics 61(1): 28-35. · Schwartz, S.I., and P. Zorn, 1988, A Critique of Quasiexperimental and Statistical Controls for Measuring Program Effects: Application to Urban Growth Control, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 7,3: 491-505.
July 19 (Wed): PM 1:00-2:45 3:00-4:45	Regression analysis (Dr. Knaap and Arnab Chakraborty) Working Session
July 20 (Thu): AM 8:15-9:45 10:00-11:45	Growth management and housing markets (Dr. Song) · Song, Y. (In press), “The Spillover Effects of Growth Management Constraints on Housing New Construction,” in C. Connerly, T. Chapin, and H. Higgins (eds), Regulating Development in the Sunshine State: Evaluating Florida’s Growth Management Approach. Ashgate Publishing Limited. Housing Submarkets – heterogeneous demands (Dr. Song) · Song, Y. and R. Quercia (2005), “Are home buyers aware of different neighborhood design: Defining housing submarkets.” Journal of Housing Economics.
July 20 (Thu): PM 1:00-2:45 3:00-4:45	Affordable Housing (Dr. Song) · Song, Y. and Y. Zenou (2006), “Let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water: Suggestions to redevelopment policies of urban villages in China.” Urban Studies. Policy analysis (Dr. Knaap and Arnab Chakraborty)
July 21 (Fri): AM 8:15-9:45 10:00-11:45	Measuring Urban Forms (Dr. Song) · Song, Yan and Gerrit J. Knaap, (2004), “Internally Connected, No Commercial, With a Touch of Open Space: The Neighborhoods of New Homes in the Portland Metropolitan Area.” Journal of Urban Design, submitted. · Song, Y. (2005), “Smart growth and urban development pattern: A comparative study.” International Regional Science Review, 28(2): 239-265. Implications of urban form (Dr. Song) · Song, Y., G. Gee, Y. Fan, and D. Takeuchi (2005), “Do physical neighborhood characteristics matter in predicting traffic stress and health outcome?” Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behavior.
July 21 (Fri): PM 1:00-2:45 3:00-4:45	Regression diagnostics (Dr. Knaap and Dr. Song) Working Session & Trouble shooting workshop
July 24 (Mon): AM 8:15-9:45 10:00-11:45	Public Finance and Urban Development (Dr. Song) · W. E. Oates, R. M. Schwab, The impact of urban land taxation: The Pittsburgh experience, National Tax Journal 50 (1997) 1—21. · J.K. Brueckner, H. Kim, Urban sprawl and the property tax, International Tax and Public Finance 10 (2003) 5-23. Property Tax and Urban Sprawl (Dr. Song) · Song, Y. and Y. Zenou (2005), “Property taxation and urban sprawl.” Journal of Urban Economics. Submitted.
July 24 (Mon): PM 1:00-2:45 3:00-4:45	Group 1 & 2 presentations Group 3 & 4 presentations
July 25 (Tue): AM 8:15-9:45 10:00-11:45	Transportation, Urbanization, and Development (Dr. Song) · Ingram, G.K. Patterns of Metropolitan Development: What Have We Learned? Urban Studies, Jun98. · Ingram, G.K. and Liu, Z. Motorization and Road Provision. Land Use and Transportation Integration (Dr. Song) · Y. Song (2006). Land use and transportation integration: theory, policy, and tools. Working report.
July 25 (Tue): PM 1:00-2:45 3:00-4:45	Group 5 & 6 presentations Group 7 & 8 presentations