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Urban Policy Science Lab
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A lab that uses economics to explore urban structure and the effects of environmental policy.
AboutAbout the lab
Reading the shape of the city through economics
The Urban Policy Science Lab is the lab of Associate Professor Mitsuru Ota, who specializes in regional science, urban economics, and urban planning.
Its research keyword is urban structure: the lab studies how the spatial structure of cities is determined and how it changes.
Its topics include the relationship between advances in communication technology and urban spatial structure, and the economic effects of environmental policies.
Key terms
- Urban economics
- A field that uses economics to study where people and firms locate within a city and how land prices are determined
- Environmental offset
- Compensating for harm to the environment through a separate initiative
- Monopolistic competition
- A market structure in which many firms sell similar but slightly differentiated products
ResearchResearch themes
The lab takes an economics approach to studying the relationship between urban spatial structure and communication technology, as well as the economic effects of environmental policies. Its specialties are regional science, urban economics, and urban planning.
*Illustrative imageCommunication Technology and Urban Spatial Structure
Using equilibrium analysis, the lab studies how urban spatial structure changes as communication technologies such as telecommuting become widespread.
*Illustrative imageEffects of Regulations That Improve Air Quality
The lab takes part in joint research that analyzes the benefits of diesel vehicle emission regulations, using the case of the world's largest low emission zone. It has also worked on evaluating improvements in air quality from logistics using satellite data.
*Illustrative imageEnvironmental Offsets and Market Theory
The lab joined a collaborative study that analyzes how environmental offsets and production externalities interact in monopolistically competitive markets. It also has a paper on environmentally friendly markets and the free-rider problem.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorMitsuru Ota
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “A view of a sub urban area of Guatemala City in Guatemala” Jose Hernandez / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Communication Technology and Urban Spatial Structure: “Big Desk Home Office Carrollton New Orleans” Infrogmation of New Orleans / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Effects of Regulations That Improve Air Quality: “Glasgow Low Emission Zone sign - geograph.org.uk - 6062567” Thomas Nugent / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Environmental Offsets and Market Theory: “Factory smokestacks in Newark, New Jersey” The Eloquent Peasant / CC0 (cropped)
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