Julia Harten
Julia Harten is an Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Data Innovation for Housing and Inclusive Urbanization in the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia. In her work, she leverages new data methods to study housing and socio-spatial inequality. She focuses on the housing strategies of marginalized people and the role of cities and housing for social mobility, both in Asia and North America.
She is a Urban China Research Network board member and a co-organizer of the Urban China Zoom Talk Series. At UBC, Julia is involved with the Housing Research Collaborative, the Center for Chinese Research, the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice, and UBC Migration Studies. She is also part of the Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative and Shanghai Jiaotong University's Center for Housing and Urban-Rural Development.
Selected Publications
Harten, J. G. (2024) Housing When Entering the Job Market: What Shapes Housing Vulnerability Among China’s Recent College Graduates? Housing Theory and Society https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2024.2331170 (external link) .
Lore, M., Harten, J. G., & Boeing, G. (2024). A hybrid deep learning method for identifying topics in large- scale urban text data: Benefits and trade-offs. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 111, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2024.102131 (external link) .
Harten, J. G (2021). Housing Single Women: Gender in China’s Shared Rental Housing Market. Journal of the American Planning Association, 87(1), 85-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2020.1781681 (external link) .
