Vestiges of Transit: Urban Persistence at a Microscale

We are very appreciative of the many research assistants who worked on this project. Our historical mapping research assistant (RA), Jordan Hale, did stupendous work digitizing streetcar maps. At the Federal Reserve Board, Jeff Groesbeck, Gage Love, and Jessica Zehel worked on the digitization of major roads in the 1930s, Jessica Hayes helped with the historical Census data, and Jack Popper collected transit ridership. Jessica Zehel had a particularly clever idea for displaying density, for which we are very appreciative. Lena Yemelyanov and Dharani Ranganathan did yeoman's work in the digitization of the 1922 zoning map. We are grateful to librarians and staff at the LA City Public Library, the Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library, the Huntington Library, and the City of Los Angeles Department of Planning for the historical sources on which our work is based. Federal Reserve Board RAs Paul Eliason, Waldo Ojeda, Shoshana Schwartz, and Jessica Zehel labored over our codification of zoning. University of Toronto RAs Rita Barua, Liz Kagedan, Tatyana Leykekhman, Erin Mitchell, and Evgueni Sapojnikov also worked on the codification of the zoning; their work was made possible in part by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, to which we are very grateful. We thank conference participants at the All-UC Economic History Conference, AREUEA Annual, Mid-Year and International Conferences, Barcelona Institute of Economics Urban Economics Conference, Lincoln Institute Urban Economics and Public Finance Conference, NARSC Annual Meeting, the NBER Summer Institute (Real Estate and History Sessions), and the UCLA Alumni Conference, including discussants Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Leah Boustan, Gilles Duranton, Stephen Redding, Albert Saiz, Jon Sonstelie, Daniel Strum, and Coretin Trevien. Finally, we thank seminar participants at Drexel University, the Federal Reserve Board, George Washington, George Mason, Georgetown, NYU, University of Illinois, University of Illinois–Chicago, and University of Pittsburgh/Carnegie Mellon. The analysis and conclusions set forth are our own and do not indicate concurrence by the board of governors of the Federal Reserve.