Yu-Chih Lin (林榆芝) specializes in urban planning, urban economics, and policy analysis. Her research broadly speaking focuses on urban policy and urban governance as understood from an economic perspective. She is interested in teaching methodological courses, such as research methods, urban economics, and policy analysis. Her career goal is to provide a behavior-based framework for understanding urban development, urban governance, and urban policy by conducting research and teaching.
Dr. Lin received her Ph.D. in Public Policy and Administration from the Department of Urban and Public Affairs at the University of Louisville (UofL) in Kentucky where she received a scholarship from the International Center and was awarded the Graduate Dean’s Citation. She simultaneously completed Graduate Certificates in Grant Writing Academy and Diversity and Graduate Teaching Assistant Program from the School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies. Her dissertation created a dynamic economic model to analyze how housing mobility programs affected local taxes and public goods and stimulated the migration of different economic classes.
Previously, she received a Master’s degree in Building and Planning from National Taiwan University (國立臺灣大學) in Taiwan. Her thesis, which adopted a micro-economic approach (a game model) to analyze negotiation processes between a developer and landowners to provide policy suggestions on preventing procrastination on land assembly for urban renewal projects, was awarded the Best Thesis Award from the Chinese Institute of Land Economics and later published in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. As an undergraduate, she studies economics, urban planning, land laws and regulations in Taiwan, public finance, and statistics, and graduated with a B.A. in Land Economics from National Chengchi University (國立政治大學) in Taiwan.
Her work is motivated by her passion for improving urban quality of life. She participated in various planning projects, including comprehensive planning, street planning, and planning for low-income communities in Philippine with local NGOs. The experience made her realize the importance of the politics among stakeholders. Since then, she has found it fascinating to analyze how the interactions between different actors influence urban development and policy outcomes. She has been conducting research to provide policy suggestions to solve urban problems and she is committed to making her scholarly research activity and teaching activity mutually supporting by teaching methodological courses, which provide students tools to analyze urban issues and generate policy solutions.
Dr. Yu-Chih (Ariel) Lin can be contacted via email at bravo0112@gmail.com.
Yu-Chih (Ariel) Lin, Ph.D. 