Greg Shill
@gregshill
Professor of Law at Arizona State University • Student of firms, cities & transportation (and Seinfeld) • Papers: ssrn.com/author=887547 • Newsletter: gregshill.substack.com • Cohost, Densely Speaking podcast • gregshill.com
She's talented at making other people's things her thing. Let's go all the way back to early July. The day before Platner dropped out—when her fellow travelers were still trying to shout down his victims by blaming AIPAC—she makes AIPAC the bad guy in her own story *without* accusing them directly.
Jennifer Roback, Wages, Rents, and the Quality of Life, 90 J. Pol. Econ. 1257 (1982)
There are historical reasons for siting big parks like Wilson Park in Detroit or Grant Park in Chicago along rivers & lakefronts. But doing so without permitting adjacent intensification of housing consigns them to occasional destination use rather than letting them blossom into everyday amenities.
The new DSA platform suggests that the problem with transportation policy in the United States is private enterprise rather than inept public institutions.
On a per capita basis, we have probably never imported less oil (or other energy), and much of it is from the Americas. Now, maybe that's part of your model (Canada stops exporting or something), but in a dire case like that you'd want to incorporate export restrictions and we are net-exporters.
Bold idea to advance rail electrification: What if we rebranded them “dogenaries” given the popularity advantages of dogs?
🚨 New ~Densely Speaking~ season starts next week!!! 🚨 Subscribe here or wherever you get your podcasts for interviews about new work on cities, economics & law, hosted by @jeffrlin.bsky.social and me. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... (Bonus pic of my dog because he’s a good boy.)
All set up at U of C. Have managed to bug @gottliebecon.bsky.social a few times already and tour the library’s map collection. Let me know if you’re around and want to get lunch at the food trucks!
Democratic primaries in 2026 are just the Tobias and Lindsay meme over and over again
There’s little question housing affordability is deteriorating but I don’t think it’s currently that bleak. SFHs currently for sale in Berwyn, for example.
This is a chart I wish the remote work discourse would more fully internalize. It shows the employment level among prime-age Americans with disabilities rising by nearly one quarter post-pandemic (from ~31% to approaching 39%). It's up even more from 2016. This is almost certainly hybrid work & WFH.
I was recently advised that the CTA has one of the most extensive, if not the most, network of slow zones of any transit system in the world. Go home, Forest Park branch of the blue line; you're drunk. www.transitchicago.com/assets/1/6/S...
Looking forward to reading @michaelcpollack.bsky.social’s Sidewalk Nation!
👀 (from the Railroads of Lake Superior FB group, of which I am now a proud member)
I’m shocked to find that the guy who posted a bunch of repugnant things—and had a Nazi tattoo—also appears to have other skeletons in his closet
I’m excited to spend 2026-27 at the University of Chicago as a Visiting Scholar at the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation & Harris School of Public Policy. I’m grateful to be a part of this supportive community and for my projects to benefit from its tradition of interdisciplinary scholarship.
Thirty years on, the actual Law of the Horse essay is unremarkable and did not age well.
✨ New draft up! ✨ Transportation for the Abundant Society, with Jonathan Levine (urban and transportation planning, U. Michigan) Thanks to those who've offered feedback to date (so much, some we're still incorporating!) no charge or login needed: ssrn.com/abstract=538...