Lewis Center Postdoctoral Fellows
Taner Osman (2014 – Current)
Taner Osman is currently a post-doctoral researcher in the Lewis Center and an instructor in the Department of Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests include regional development, economic development policy, urban spatial structures, and the impact of congestion on the economic performance of metropolitan regions.
Mark Garrett (2013-2014)
Mark Garrett worked as a Research Faculty and Communications Associate at the UCLA Lewis Center. Additionally, Dr. Garrett was the general editor of the Encyclopedia of Transportation: Social Science and Public Policy (Sage 2014).
• California Transportation Needs Assessment: The Transportation Barriers and Needs of Welfare Recipients and Low-Wage Workers
• Reconsidering Social Equity in Public Transit
• When Planning Fails: Protecting the Neighborhood in Vested Development Rights Disputes
• How Much Does a Transit Trip Cost?
• Measuring Cost Variability in Provision of Transit Service
• Measuring the Effects of Peaking, Vehicle Capital, and Passenger Capacity on the Cost of Providing Transit Service
Michael Smart (2012-2013)
Dr. Michael Smart is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. His research interests has included transportation, immigrant, neighborhoods, LGBT neighborhoods, urban modeling, and GIS.
• Driving to Opportunity: Understanding the Links among Transportation Access, Residential Outcomes, and Economic Opportunity for Housing Vouc her Recipients
• Travel In the ’Hood: Ethnic Neighborhoods and Mode Choice
• Getting by with a little help from my friends…and family: immigrants and carpooling
• Thinking Outside The Bus
• What’s Youth Got to Do with It? Exploring the Travel Behavior of Teens and Young Adults
Eric Morris (2011-2012)
Eric Morris currently resides in Greenville, South Carolina where he teaches at Clemson University as an Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning. Professor Morris is in the process of co-authoring a book alongside Professor Brian D. Taylor of UCLA and Professor Jeffrey R. Brown of Florida State University with regards to the history of financing of the freeway system.
• How Privatization Became a Train Wreck
• From Horse Power to Horsepower
• Politics, Public Opinion, and Project Design in California Road Pricing
• Paved with Good Intentions: Fiscal Politics, Freeways and the 20th Century American City
• The Access Almanac: Life in the Fast Line
Michael Manville (2009-2011)
A new assistant professor of urban planning, Michael Manville is returning to UCLA Luskin after receiving his MA and Ph.D. in urban planning from UCLA Luskin. Previously, Michael Manville worked as an Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University, which holds one of the most outstanding programs in North America.
• Parking Without Paying
• People, Parking and Cities
• The Price of Unwanted Parking
• Parking requirements as a barrier to housing development: regulation and reform in Los Angeles
• Falling Behind: California’s Interior Metropolitan Areas
• For Whom The Road Tolls: The Politics of Congestion Pricing
• The Political Calculus of Congestion Pricing