Publicationsangelawu2023-09-07T15:08:12-07:00

Publications

The briefs and reports below provide a sample of recent research by Lewis Center faculty, affiliated scholars, staff, and students, produced internally or by our partner centers and other universities. Learn more about support for students and the Graduate Student Fellows program to fund students conducting capstone research.

Note: Briefs and reports are often adapted from or into published books and articles in academic journals, which are not listed here.

Title	Author(s)	Year
Brief Overcoming Opposition to New Housing How can we reform our planning systems to increase supply on the one hand, and to reduce the unequal spatial distribution of new development on the other? Researchers at UCLA examined the tactics available to opponents of new housing development and categorized the motivations behind anti-development sentiment.	Paavo Monkkonen, Will Livesley-O'Neill	2017
Brief The Likely Consequences of Measure S: Higher Housing Costs While there is no shortage of debate on Measure S, the public dialogue has been relatively uninformed about the likely consequences of the Measure. Our best assessment of the available research and data leads us to conclude that if the measure passes, rents and property costs in the Los Angeles region are likely to rise faster than they are already.	Michael Lens, Madeline Brozen, Herbie Huff, Kate Traynor	2017
Brief Can a Tool of Segregation Be Used to Fight Displacement? Rises in housing costs are outstripping income gains, and residents are being pushed out of central city neighborhoods that have been affordable to low-income workers for decades. How can cities actively curb displacement?	Eve Bachrach, Michael Lens	2017
Brief Is Los Angeles Destroying Its Affordable Housing Stock to Build Luxury Apartments? Is Los Angeles cannibalizing its affordable rental housing to make way for market-rate and luxury apartments? We looked at records for new multifamily development in Los Angeles to determine what was demolished to build new housing.	Eve Bachrach, Paavo Monkkonen, Michael Lens	2017
Brief Not So Fast: Traffic Delays, Access, and Economic Activity in Greater Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area The TTI estimated that traffic congestion cost the Bay Area economy – by some measures the nation’s most vibrant regional economy – a staggering $3.1 billion in 2014. But do such measures really capture how congestion and the conditions that give rise to it affect regional economies?	Taner Osman, Brian D. Taylor, Trevor Thomas, Andrew Mondschein	2016
Brief The California Gas Tax Swap: A Study of Revenue Volatility in Transportation Planning In the mid-2000s, the state began diverting fuel sales tax money previously earmarked for mass transit to pay debt from highway and rail bonds, as well as general services supported by the state. A state court, however, soon ruled that diverting transportation sales taxes to the General Fund was invalid. Therefore, the Governor proposed a “Fuel Tax Swap."	Anne Brown, Martin Wachs, Mark Garrett	2016
Report Toward Accurate and Valid Estimates of Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Bikeway Projects Calculating GHG emissions reductions for transportation projects is both difficult and imperative for policy. The existing scholarship reflects three problems: 1) the complexity of transportation systems and travel behavior, 2) the lack of data to support emissions calculations, 3) the inability to apply existing academic models to policy implementation.	Juan Matute, Herbie Huff, Jaimee Lederman, Diego de la Peza, Kevin Johnson	2016
Report Heightening Walking above its Pedestrian Status: Walking and Travel Behavior in California In this study we draw on data from the last two California Household Travel Surveys to examine walking behavior in four major California regions—the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Sacramento, and San Diego.	Evelyn Blumenberg, Kate Bridges, Madeline Brozen, Carole Turley Voulgaris	2016
Report Congested Development A Study of Traffic Delays, Access, and Economic Activity in Metropolitan Los Angeles TTI estimated that traffic congestion cost the LA economy a staggering $13.3 billion in 2014, based on premise that moving slowly wastes time and fuel, costs that are multiplied over millions of travelers. But do such measures really capture how congestion and the conditions that give rise to it affect regional economies?	Taner Osman, Brian D. Taylor, Trevor Thomas, Andrew Mondschein	2015
Student Work The Greying of American Cities: Evaluating Built Environment Indicators for Ensuring an Age-Friendly City The American elderly population is growing at unprecedented rates, six times faster than the rest of the population. In a few short years, they will account for 24% of the population, yet cities have not planned for this silver tsunami.	Valerie Joy Coleman	2015