David Schleicher is the Walter E. Meyer Professor of Property and Urban Law at Yale Law School. He is the author of In a Bad State: Responding to State and Local Budget Crises. He also co-hosts the podcast Digging a Hole with YLS colleague Samuel Moyn.

Appendices: David Schleicher: New York Times article The Queen Bee of Bidenomics and American Compass proposal On Infrastructure Financing.

Greg Shill: Fire & Steam: How the Railways Transformed Britain by Christian Wolmar.

Jeff Lin: Interstate: Highway Politics and Policy Since 1939 by Mark Rose and Raymond Mohl.

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Producer: Nathan Spindler-Krage

The views expressed on the show are those of the participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Reserve System, or any of the other institutions with which the hosts or guests are affiliated.

Neighborhood Formation and Neighborhood Effects (Dionissi Aliprantis)

Dionisi Aliprantis is an assistant vice president and a senior research economist in the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, the director of the Bank’s Program on Economic Inclusion, and the founding director of the Math Movement. He is the author of “Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves”: A Review Essay with Daniel Hartley.

Appendices:

Dionissi Aliprantis: Brilliant.org and Vsauce on The Banach-Tarski Paradox

Greg Shill, Professor of Law & Michael and Brenda Sandler Faculty Fellow in Corporate Law, University of Iowa College of Law: The Radical Fair Housing Act, by Noah Kazis

Jeff Lin: 3Blue1Brown Series on Neural Networks

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Producer: Courtney Campbell The views expressed on the show are those of the participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Reserve System, or any of the other institutions with which the hosts or guests are affiliated.

Blockbusting and the Challenges Faced by Black Families in Building Wealth through Housing in the Postwar US (Jonathan Rose)

Jonathan Rose is the Historian of the Federal Reserve System and senior economist and economic advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He is the co-author of Blockbusting and the Challenges Faced by Black Families in Building Wealth through Housing in the Postwar United States (with Daniel Hartley).

Other Materials Mentioned: A Spatial Animation of Blockbusting Racial Segregation in Housing Markets and the Erosion of Black Wealth The Saturday Evening Post: Confessions of a Block-Buster

Appendices: Jonathan Rose: East West Street: On the Origins of “Genocide” and “Crimes Against Humanity”

Greg Shill: Detroit’s Birwood Wall: Hatred and Healing in the West Eight Mile Community.

Jeff Lin: Urban Life in the Distant Past: The Prehistory of Energized Crowding (Urban Archaeological Pasts).

Follow us on the web or on Twitter: @denselyspeaking, @jeffrlin, @greg_shill. Producer: Courtney Campbell

The views expressed on the show are those of the participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Banks of Philadelphia or Chicago, the Federal Reserve System, or any of the other institutions with which the hosts or guests are affiliated.