Julia Gabriele Harten
Biographic Data
| ID | 6009326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia Gabriele Harten |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia Gabriele |
| FAMILY NAME | Harten |
| SIGNATURE | HARTEN J G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8953-513X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Home sharing as affordable housing for all? Revealing the exclusionary language of shared rental listings through AI
Shared renting offers affordability opportunities in unaffordable neighborhoods, but uniquely impels existing and prospective tenants to match on both unit and personal characteristics—creating new opportunities for discrimination and segregation. This study investigates how this matching unfolds. Do existing tenants construct “idealized co-tenants” to signal their selection criteria and signal who is and is not welcome to apply? We analyze onlin…
Gendered housing struggles and the construction of single women as risky tenants in urban India
Despite financial solvency and professional success single women are popularly known to face discrimination in India’s rental housing markets. Yet, the issue remains understudied in the literature. Drawing on 28 semi-structured interviews, we ask: How does gender shape housing access for unmarried female young professionals in Bengaluru? Our findings reveal that single women encounter barriers at every stage of the housing search—not due to econo…
A hybrid deep learning method for identifying topics in large-scale urban text data
Large-scale text data from public sources, including social media or online platforms, can expand urban planners' ability to monitor and analyze urban conditions in near real-time. To overcome scalability challenges of manual techniques for qualitative data analysis, researchers and practitioners have turned to computer-automated methods, such as natural language processing (NLP) and deep learning. However, the benefits, challenges, and trade-off…
Housing Vulnerability, Shared Housing, Informality, and Crowding
Mirroring developments elsewhere, for recent college graduates in China the transition to employment is increasingly protracted and, for some, precarious. Case studies of individual strategies and cities indicate a diversification of housing pathways, where economic precarity is rendering at least some vulnerable. Based on original survey data collected in 2019, I investigate the housing choices of Chinese college graduate job market entrants and…
Access to the exclusive city
Home sharing, particularly via online platforms, is becoming a mainstream housing strategy as social processes evolve and housing costs rise. Recent research has studied shared rentals as a modality for students and kin-based households, as one strategy among diversifying pathways to housing and as a social phenomenon. However, we still know little about whether it actually creates opportunities for home seekers in unaffordable markets. Analysing…
Housing Single Women
Problem, research strategy, and findings Globally, house sharing among unrelated individuals is on the rise. In this study I use a rare data opportunity to uncover the role of gender in an extreme form of shared housing, the case of bed space rentals in Shanghai (China). Combining web-scraped online data with fieldwork, I find that women face gendered hindrances as they trade personal space for spatial access to opportunities. In particular, barr…
Can Land Use Regulation Be Smarter? Planners’ Role in the Informal Housing Challenge
Persistent urbanization is challenging planners to reimagine the absorptive capacities of cities. While more and more city dwellers respond to the challenge with informal solutions, policy and planning responses have fallen short of providing compelling answers. We propose redirecting attention to the use of land. This paper develops a model that centers on the role of land use regulation in conditioning and sustaining housing informality. Taking…
Housing Vulnerability, Shared Housing, Informality, and Crowding
Mirroring developments elsewhere, for recent college graduates in China the transition to employment is increasingly protracted and, for some, precarious. Case studies of individual strategies and cities indicate a diversification of housing pathways, where economic precarity is rendering at least some vulnerable. Based on original survey data collected in 2019, I investigate the housing choices of Chinese college graduate job market entrants and…
Can Land Use Regulation Be Smarter? Planners’ Role in the Informal Housing Challenge
Persistent urbanization is challenging planners to reimagine the absorptive capacities of cities. While more and more city dwellers respond to the challenge with informal solutions, policy and planning responses have fallen short of providing compelling answers. We propose redirecting attention to the use of land. This paper develops a model that centers on the role of land use regulation in conditioning and sustaining housing informality. Taking…
Access to the exclusive city
Home sharing, particularly via online platforms, is becoming a mainstream housing strategy as social processes evolve and housing costs rise. Recent research has studied shared rentals as a modality for students and kin-based households, as one strategy among diversifying pathways to housing and as a social phenomenon. However, we still know little about whether it actually creates opportunities for home seekers in unaffordable markets. Analysing…
Can Land Use Regulation Be Smarter? Planners’ Role in the Informal Housing Challenge
Persistent urbanization is challenging planners to reimagine the absorptive capacities of cities. While more and more city dwellers respond to the challenge with informal solutions, policy and planning responses have fallen short of providing compelling answers. We propose redirecting attention to the use of land. This paper develops a model that centers on the role of land use regulation in conditioning and sustaining housing informality. Taking…
Housing Single Women
Problem, research strategy, and findings Globally, house sharing among unrelated individuals is on the rise. In this study I use a rare data opportunity to uncover the role of gender in an extreme form of shared housing, the case of bed space rentals in Shanghai (China). Combining web-scraped online data with fieldwork, I find that women face gendered hindrances as they trade personal space for spatial access to opportunities. In particular, barr…
A hybrid deep learning method for identifying topics in large-scale urban text data
Large-scale text data from public sources, including social media or online platforms, can expand urban planners' ability to monitor and analyze urban conditions in near real-time. To overcome scalability challenges of manual techniques for qualitative data analysis, researchers and practitioners have turned to computer-automated methods, such as natural language processing (NLP) and deep learning. However, the benefits, challenges, and trade-off…
Housing Vulnerability, Shared Housing, Informality, and Crowding
Mirroring developments elsewhere, for recent college graduates in China the transition to employment is increasingly protracted and, for some, precarious. Case studies of individual strategies and cities indicate a diversification of housing pathways, where economic precarity is rendering at least some vulnerable. Based on original survey data collected in 2019, I investigate the housing choices of Chinese college graduate job market entrants and…
Access to the exclusive city
Home sharing, particularly via online platforms, is becoming a mainstream housing strategy as social processes evolve and housing costs rise. Recent research has studied shared rentals as a modality for students and kin-based households, as one strategy among diversifying pathways to housing and as a social phenomenon. However, we still know little about whether it actually creates opportunities for home seekers in unaffordable markets. Analysing…
Home sharing as affordable housing for all? Revealing the exclusionary language of shared rental listings through AI
Shared renting offers affordability opportunities in unaffordable neighborhoods, but uniquely impels existing and prospective tenants to match on both unit and personal characteristics—creating new opportunities for discrimination and segregation. This study investigates how this matching unfolds. Do existing tenants construct “idealized co-tenants” to signal their selection criteria and signal who is and is not welcome to apply? We analyze onlin…
Gendered housing struggles and the construction of single women as risky tenants in urban India
Despite financial solvency and professional success single women are popularly known to face discrimination in India’s rental housing markets. Yet, the issue remains understudied in the literature. Drawing on 28 semi-structured interviews, we ask: How does gender shape housing access for unmarried female young professionals in Bengaluru? Our findings reveal that single women encounter barriers at every stage of the housing search—not due to econo…
Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Housing Market and Economics (4 works) · Affordable housing (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Renting (3 works)