Julia Gabriele Harten

About Me

I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia.

In my work, I leverage new data methods to study housing and socio-spatial inequality. I focus on the housing strategies of marginalized people and the role of cities and housing for social mobility, both in Asia and North America.

I hold a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California’s Sol Price School of Public Policy (2020). Prior to USC, I studied at Münster University, Goethe University Frankfurt, and the Free University of Berlin, earning degrees in Business Administration, Economics, and China and East Asian Studies. 

I am an UCRN board member and a former member of IACP and  SLAB. At UBC, I joined the Housing Research Collaborative, the Center for Chinese Research, the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, and UBC Migration Studies. I am also part of the Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative and Shanghai Jiaotong University's Center for Housing and Urban-Rural Development.

My CV is available here.

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Research

Click here for an overview of my most recent work or take a look at my CV.

My research is also on GoogleScholar and ORCID.

Teaching

My teaching focuses on the intersection of markets and planning and the opportunities and challenges of new data methods for planning research.

I am teaching a new graduate course on real estate development and planning, which I designed for the Master's of Community and Regional Plannling (MCRP). In summer 2022, I also designed and taught for the first time a new advanced research methods course on Urban Analytics. In addition I designed and taught a new MCRP core course on Information and Analysis for Planners. 

Please see the SCARP website for course descriptions and additional information.