• Urban economics
• Urban and regional sciences
• Research methods
• International (China) development
• Urban spatial structure
• Geographic information systems

CURRENT RESEARCH

      I am heading the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy's China Program, which was established in 2003 to engage with Chinese in land and urban policy reforms. Currently I am managing three demonstration projects in China. The first project is to engage in transition of urban planning practice in a way that market forces and planning both influence urban development. The second project is to better understand the potential conflict between farmland preservation and urban development pressure and better design and develop institutional system to recognize fundamental changes undertaken in China. The last project is to engage with Chinese in property/land taxation.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• 2004, Urban Spatial Development in the Land Policy Reform Era: Evidence from Beijing, Urban Studies, (accepted)
• 2003, with Knaap, G. Property Values in Inner City Neighborhoods: The Effects of Homeownership, Housing Investment, and Economic Development, Housing Policy Debate, Vol. 13, Issue 4: 701-28
• 2003, Land Use Policy Reform in China: Assessment and Prospective, Land Use Policy, Vol. 20, Issue 2: 109-20.
• 2001, An Empirical Model of Urban Spatial Development, Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies, Vol. 13, No. 3, 123-136.
• 2000 with Bingham, R. Beyond Edge City: Job Decentralization and Urban Sprawl, Urban Affairs Review, Vol. 35, No. 6, July, 880-898
• 2000. with Simons, R. and Baku, E. The Spatial Effect of Residential Investments on the Property Values: Evidence From Cleveland, Ohio, Journal of Real Estate Research, Vol. 19:1/2: 23-48.