Getting Started
- America’s Cities Are Unlivable. Blame Wealthy Liberals (New York Times)
- Americans Need More Neighbors (New York Times)
- Upzones and affordable housing requirements approved by Seattle City Council (Curbed Seattle)
- Cities Start to Question an American Ideal: A House With a Yard on Every Lot(New York Times)
- Zoning 101 (Open New York)
Sustainability and
Climate Change
- Green Metropolis: What the City Can Teach the Country about True Sustainability (David Owen)
- Green Cities, Brown Suburbs (City Journal)
Race, Gentrification
and Segregation
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Richard Rothstein)
- Redlining: How one racist, Depression-Era Policy still shapes New York’s real estate (Brick Underground)
- The State of Segregation in the Suburbs (The Atlantic)
General
- Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Edward Glaeser)
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Jane Jacobs)
- Zoning Rules!: The Economics of Land Use Regulation (William Fischel)
- Is Zoning a Useful Tool or a Regulator Barrier? (Brookings Institute)
Affordability, Inequality
and Mobility
- Why Falling Home Prices Could Be a Good Thing (New York Times)
- Stuck! The Law and Economics of Residential Stability” (Yale Law Journal)
- Housing Constraints and Spatial Misallocation (Chang-Tai Hsieh and Enrico Moretti)
- Is Housing Inequality the Main Driver of Economic Inequality? (CityLab)
- Homeownership and Housing Wealth (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
- Deciphering the Fall and Rise in the Net Capital Share: Accumulation or Scarcity? (Matthew Rognlie)
- Supply Skepticism: Housing Supply and Affordability (Furman Center)
- How Luxury Units Turn Into Affordable Housing (Nolan Gray on CityLab)
- Housing, urban growth and inequalities: The limits to deregulation and upzoning in reducing economic and spatial inequality (Andrés Rodríguez-Pose & Michael Storper)
- Zoning and Affordability: A Reply to Storper and Rodríguez-Pose (Michael Manville, Michael Lens, Paavo Monkkonen)