The talk will introduce the importance of sound counterfactuals in spatial social science, and the importance of spatial scale and metropolitan fragmentation in the policy analysis of land-use regulations, especially those pertaining to location-choice and racial segregation.
It's a free seminar sponsored by the Department of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis.
Speaker: 
Dr. Elijah Knaap, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at UC Irvine 
The talk will introduce the importance of sound counterfactuals in spatial social science, and the importance of spatial scale and metropolitan fragmentation in the policy analysis of land-use regulations, especially those pertaining to location-choice and racial segregation. 
 
Elijah Knaap is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at UC Irvine, a faculty affiliate with the UCI Center for Population Inequality and Policy, and a core software developer for the PySAL and QuantEcon open-source ecosystems. His work focuses on the development and application of novel techniques in spatial data science, particularly toward the study of social inequality, neighborhood context, and urban structure. Eli's research has received support from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Dept of Housing and Urban Development, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Urban Institute, the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program, among others. He serves on the North American Regional Science Council and as Secretary of the Northeastern Regional Science Association. 
 
This program is open to all. Individuals requiring accommodations may contact Karla Barajas at [email protected]