Articles by Brandon Fuller
Brandon Fuller is Deputy Director and Research Scholar at the Urbanization Project and Director of Charter Cities, a non-profit focused on the potential for reform zones in the developing world. Prior to NYU, Fuller was part of the education technology start-up, Aplia. He also taught economics at the University of Montana.
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Urban Land Magazine Reviews Planet of Cities
David Godschalk reviews Planet of Cities in the latest edition of Urban Land, the magazine of the Urban Land Institute. Planet of Cities sets an ambitious agenda—nothing less than formulating evidence-based rules for managing the worldwide …
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Region-Based Visas in the Atlantic Cities Blog
Sean Rust and I make the case for region-based visas over at the Atlantic Cities blog: America’s cities are the engines of its growth. Though the immigration bill before Congress would help cities by increasing …
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Choice Reviews Planet of Cities
The recent issue of Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries includes a brief review of Solly Angel’s book, Planet of Cities. Replete with scores of color photographs, maps, graphs, and other images, this volume brings new …
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Grain Self-Sufficiency & Housing Affordability in China
The Winter 2012 issue of the Journal of Architectural and Planning Research includes a paper by UP scholar Alain Bertaud: “Government Intervention and Urban Land Markets: The Case of China.” In it, he considers the …
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Bob Buckley on Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa
Thanks to Bob Buckley of the New School for leading this week’s brown bag discussion on urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa. Though Buckley stressed that the data from Sub-Saharan Africa leaves quite a bit to be …
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UP Links — 19 April 2013
Jeffrey Frankel on the Fear of Fracking First, fracking’s opponents worry that shale gas will displace renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power. But the fact is that CO2 emissions cannot be reduced …
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Alain Bertaud on Parallel Housing Markets
Thanks to UP Senior Scholar Alain Bertaud for leading this week’s brown bag discussion on parallel housing markets in rapidly growing cities. Alain described how well-intentioned government intervention in land and housing markets can end up …
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Dennis Smith on Evidence Based Urban Policing
Thanks to NYU Wagner’s Dennis Smith for leading this week’s brown bag on evidence based urban policing. Smith discussed his work on Operation Impact, the NYPD’s primary program for reducing violent crime during the Bloomberg-Kelly …
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On the Set With the NYU Stern Urbanization Project
We spent a good part of last week filming Solly Angel and Paul Romer as they talked about the work and ideas of the NYU Stern Urbanization Project. Here’s a preview of things to come. …
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