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Zhou Yu
zhou.yu@fcs.utah.edua
Assistant Professor of Planning and Community
Studies
Department of Family and Consumer Studies
The University of Utah
Zhou YU is an assistant professor in the
Department and Family and Consumer Studies at the University of Utah. He
received his PhD degree in planning from the School of
Policy, Planning, and Development at the University of Southern California,
where he also taught graduate course in urban demography and growth. He is
interested in housing economics, particularly among immigrants and in the urban
context. His research pertains to residential mobility, housing tenure
choice, and urban form. His peer-reviewed publications have appeared in Urban
Studies, Real Estate Economics, and Habitat International.
His research has been supported by institutions such as the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development, the Urban China Research Network at the
University at Albany, Lambda Alpha International’s Land Economics Foundation,
and the Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies. He received his Master of Urban and Regional
Planning Degree from Virginia Tech and his B.E. in Architecture from Beijing Jiaotong University
(previously known as Northern Jiaotong University).
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CV
(PDF file)
Bio Sketch
in Chinese (PDF
file)
Recent Papers
"Regional Disparities in Homeownership
Trajectories: Impacts of Affordability, New Construction, and Immigration," with
Dowell Myers, Gary Painter, Sung Ho Ryu, and Liang Wei, Housing Policy
Debate, 16(1): 53-83, 2005 PDF
file (452KB)
"Heterogeneity and dynamics in
China’s emerging urban housing market: two sides of a success story from the
late 1990s," Habitat International, forthcoming,
PDF file (372KB)
"Homeownership Determinants for
Chinese Americans: Assimilation, Ethnic Concentration, and Nativity," with
Gary Painter and Lihong Yang, Real Estate Economics, 32(3): 509-539, 2004
PDF
file (188KB)
"Heterogeneity in Asian American
Homeownership: The Impact of Household
Endowments and Immigrant Status," with Gary Painter and Lihong Yang, Urban
Studies, 40 (3): 505-530, 2003 PDF
file (700KB) Link
to SSRN
"Does Immigration Induce
Urban Sprawl in the U.S.? A Demographic Analysis," Planning Forum, 8: 41-63,
2002 PDF
file (1.08MB) Link
to SSRN
Working Papers
"Immigration and sprawl: Residential location
choices in three gateway metropolitan areas of the United States,"
PDF file (1.1MB)
Dowell Myers and Zhou
Yu, "Convergence or Divergence in Los Angeles: Three Distinctive
Ethnic Patterns of Immigrant Residential Assimilation," Working Paper No.
PDRG04-06.
PDF file
(1.1 MB)
Gary Painter and Zhou Yu, "Leaving Gateway
Metropolitan Areas: Immigrants and the Housing Market"
PDF file (500KB)
"Heterogeneity and Dynamics in China’s
Emerging Housing Market," PDF
file (930KB)
"Housing Tenure Choice of Taiwanese
Immigrants: A Different Path to Residential Assimilation," PDF file(732KB)
Teaching
The University of Utah: Honor 3376 & FCS 3600
Introduction to Consumer and Community Policy
Course flyer (138KB)
PDF
file; Course syllabus (110KB)
PDF
file
The University of Southern California: PPD 617 Urban Demography and Growth Syllabus
PDF
file (149KB)
Selected Academic Presentations
Two Sides of a Success Story in China’s
Burgeoning Housing Market: Factors behind the Surge in Housing Consumptions in
the Late 1990s, the World Bank Urban Research Symposium, Washington DC, 12/2003,
PDF
file (660KB)
"Heterogeneity and Dynamics in China’s
Emerging Housing Market: Factors behind the Surge in Homeownership and Housing
Consumptions in the late 1990s,"
presented in AESOP/ACSP 2003 Annual Conference, Leuven, Belgium, 07/2003 PDF
file (621KB)
"Housing Tenure Choice of Taiwanese
Immigrants: A Different Path to Residential Assimilation," presented in
Population Association of America 2003 Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN,
05/2003 PDF file (445KB)
"Why are Chinese Homeownership Rates so
High? Assimilation, Ethnic Concentration, and Nativity," with Gary Painter and Lihong Yang,
presented in USC
Lusk Center Research Seminar, 01/2003 PDF
file (1.2MB)
"Race/Ethnicity, Immigrant Status, and Residential Mobility in Residential Location Choice: How Do Household-level Factors Influence Urban Sprawl,"
presented in ACSP 2002 Annual Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, 11/2002 PDF
file (673KB)
"Does Immigration Induce Urban Sprawl in
the U.S.? A Demographic Analysis," presented in 41st Annual Meeting of
the Western Regional Science Association, Monterey, California, 02/2002 PDF
file (503KB)
"Heterogeneity in Asian American
Homeownership: The Impact of Household
Endowments and Immigrant Status," with Gary Painter and Lihong Yang,
presented in American Real Estate Economics Association 2002 Annual Conference
in Atlanta, GA. 01/2002 PDF file (1.2MB)
Handout (315KB)
"URBAN AND RURAL INCOME INEQUALITY IN
CHINA: REVIEW OF THEORIES RELEVANT TO CHINA'S ECONOMIC REFORM," presented in
Asian Pacific Research Universities Doctoral Student Conference, Auckland, New
Zealand, 02/2001 PDF file (91KB)
The Projects I Work On (USC
Population Dynamics Group)
Race Contours:
USA, California, and Los Angeles in the Census 2000
California
Demographic Futures
California
Housing Futures
Housing
Dynamics in China
Photos (a lot)(39MB)
2005
Salt Lake City
PhD Graduation
Ceremonies
Travel around
Hong Kong and
Shenzhen
Joshua Tree National Park
2004
San
Diego and Portland
Yosemite, Fredericton and Montreal
China Trip
Philadelphia
San Onofre State
Beach and Tournament of Roses Parade Floats
2003
Downtown Los Angeles
Disneyland and Washington DC
Air shows
Paris, 2003
Later 2003
Northern
California
Early 2003
2000-02
New Zealand, 2001
Czech Republic, 2000
Prior to 2000
Blacksburg, 1997-1999
Last revised: Sept. 12, 2005