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SUMMARY:HRC Lecture: Transportation Energy and Urban Form
DTSTART:20190418T121500
DTEND:20190418T130000
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DESCRIPTION:Nikhil Kaza\nTransportation energy is a significant portion of
  the energy consumption of the US economy. While various policies such as 
 changing the fuel mix and alternative fuels are proposed to make the syste
 m more efficient\, the efficacy of the land-use policies such as changing 
 the urban form and densification have been subject to considerable debate.
  In this presentation\, Prof. Nikhil Kaza uses a rich dataset compiled fr
 om different sources to test the effectiveness of urban form on energy con
 sumption in the transportation sector. He proxies the consumption with ret
 ail sales from gas stations for most of the conterminous United States at 
 a county level. Using both demographic\, economic and landscape characteri
 stics of urban form\, he teases out the effect of different dimensions on 
 energy consumption. He finds that compact and contiguous urban form is mod
 estly associated with lower energy consumption and is more important than 
 demographic concentration in explaining the variance.\n\nProfessor Nikhil 
 Kaza is currently Host professor at the EPFL Habitat Research Center. He i
 s Associate Professor at the Department of City & Regional Planning and A
 djunct Associate Professor at the Environment\, Ecology and Energy Program
  of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US).  Professor Kaza
  works at the intersection of urbanization patterns\, local energy policy
 \, and equity. In his research\, he seeks to understand the motivations\,
  intentions and plans of multiple actors endowed with limited capabilities
 \, imperfect foresight and distributed authority\, in urban settings. Late
 ly\, he has been studying these issues in the context of local energy pla
 nning. He routinely uses high cadence\, large geospatial and temporal dat
 asets and novel quantitative methods in my research. He is also a planning
  theorist\, specializing in organizational decision-making\, institutional
  restructuring and the role of plans. In addition to his faculty appointme
 nts in the City & Regional Planning and Environment\, Ecology and Energy p
 rogram at UNC\, he is a faculty research fellow at Center for Community C
 apital and faculty fellow at the Institute for the Enviroment and Cent
 er for Urban and Regional Studies. Homepage: https://sia.planning.unc.edu\
 n\n 
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