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 elected IACP board member and a former member of SLAB. At UBC, I joined the Housing Research Collaborative and the Center for Chinese Research. 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.
News
[April 2023] I am sharing an overview of my research as part of the new SCARP Speaker series.
[March 2023] I am now a board member with Urban China Research Network. Check out our website, WeChat groups, speaker series, and annual conference!
[March 2023] We held our first Harvard MIT UBC Urban China conference in Cambridge, MA. Read about it here.
[February 2023] Join me for an online seminar on my dissertation research/ book project hosted by CUSUP @ HKU.
[January 2023] Check out our reflections on the challenges and opportunities of digitalization for the housing search process.
[September 2022] I talk about my research with UBC students Alirod Ameri and Gurmaan Gill. Check out the recorded episode here.
[June 2022] I have been awarded a Canada Research Chair in Data Innovation for Housing and Inclusive Urbanization.
[May 2022] First in-person, interdisciplinary, and international academic meeting since the pandemic! Presenting at the Digitalization, Neighborhood Change, and Social Integration Workshop in Cologne was both fun and inspiring
[April 2022] My article "Housing Single Women" has won the JAPA Best Article by an Emerging Scholar Award!
[Mar 2022] The Harvard/MIT Urban China Series invited me to give a talk. Stay tuned for event details!
[Mar 2022] I co-authored a contribution to the Joint Center's Symposium on Digitization and Housing. Check out the agenda here.
[Mar 2022] I am track chair for the Migration, Social Integration, and Inclusion track at IACP 2022. Such pleasure to read about exciting new research on urban inclusion in China.
[Jan 2022] Thrilled serve as member of the editorial board for the new SAGE journal Transactions in Urban Data, Science, and Technology.
[Nov 2021] Renmin University invited me to give a talk on Housing, Gender, and New Data!
[Nov 2021] The Centre for Chinese Research and I organized an event on gender and 双十一. Listen to the amazing Dr. Bingchun Meng in conversation with brilliant Dr. Amy Hanser.
[Sept 2021] What an honor to speak at the Vancouve Public Salon and the Vancouver Special Council Meeting on housing and growth!
[Sept 2021] Such pleasure to organize and participate in the three part Housing Trends Series at this year's IACP. Thank you to all the wonderful presenters and exciting discussions.
[Aug 2021] ACSP is fully online! Find my pre-organized session on Data Innovation for Urban China Research in the book of abstracts and plan on stopping by in October
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 evolution 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.