ÜBER DIESE EPISODE
Professor Erick Guerra is a Professor and Associate Dean for Research at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design. We discuss his recent article,Urban Roadway in America: The Amount, Extent, and Value (with Gilles Duranton & Xinyu Ma), which provides the first comprehensive estimate of the amount, share, and value of roadways across over 300 U.S. metro areas.
Appendices:
Erick Guerra: Erick Guerra, Overbuilt: The High Costs and Low Rewards of US Highway Construction.
Greg Shill: Jeffrey Brinkman & Jeffrey Lin, Freeway Revolts! The Quality of Life Effects of Highways.
Jeff Lin: Foursquare OS Places.
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Producer: Nathan Spindler-Krage
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