Graduate Student Researchers and Recent Alumni

Paavo Monkkonen, Department of City Planning

Paavo Monkkonen (vitae) is a PhD candidate at Berkeley's Department of City and Regional Planning. His research focuses on housing policy, urban economics and the institutions of urban development, in an international, comparative context. He is currently conducting dissertation research on the impact of housing finance reform in Mexico on urban growth patterns, the homebuilding industry, and residential segregation. Based in Mérida, Yucatán, he is a visiting scholar at the Autonomous University of the Yucatán.

In addition to his current research, Paavo has worked on a variety of research projects at UC Berkeley, including the measurement of land-use regulation in the San Francisco Bay Area, an urban growth model for the continental United States, and a land market assessment in Chennai, India. In 2008, he was the editor of the Berkeley Planning Journal Volume XXI, a special bilingual volume focused on the Californias.

Paavo holds a Masters in Public Policy from the School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Paavo's Vitae

Selected Papers

• Monkkonen, Paavo. 2008. Using Online Satellite Imagery as a Research Tool: Mapping Changing Patterns of Urbanization in Mexico, Journal of Planning Education and Research, 28: 225-236.
• Monkkonen, Paavo. 2008. Land Regularization in Tijuana, Mexico. Institute of Urban and Regional Development Working Paper No. 2008-01.
• Monkkonen, Paavo and John M. Quigley. 2008. The Spatial Consequences of Autarky in Land-Use Regulation: Strategic Interaction or Parallelism? Berkeley Program on Housing and Urban Policy Working Paper No. W08-005.
• Dowall, David E. and Paavo Monkkonen. 2007. Consequences of the Plano Piloto: Urban Land Markets in Brasília, Urban Studies, 44(10): 1871-1887.
• Mukhija, Vinit and Paavo Monkkonen. 2006. Federal Colonias Policy in California: Too Broad and too Narrow, Housing Policy Debate, 17(4): 755-780.

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