Papers I keep coming back to

Luis Calderon

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Not a syllabus, just the stuff I actually reread. Half of these came out of arguments with friends about traffic or flooding, one came out of an argument about whether a good screen is a wasted possession (it isn't). Rated on the only scale that matters: does it change how you see the city, or is it just a stat line. Basketball comp included where relevant, because everything is basketball if you squint.

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Papers I keep coming back to — 8 items
Name	Comment	Field	Authors	Year	Journal	Key Finding	Read Time
1Sea-Level Rise and the Geography of Economic Activity in Miami	This is the one I send to every out-of-town friend who asks why I don't buy oceanfront. Dry as the Everglades in a drought, but the elevation-price chart alone is worth the read.	Urban Economics / Climate	J. Keenan et al.	2018	Environmental Research Letters	Elevation is becoming a price signal in South Florida real estate	25 min
2Climate Gentrification and Elevation in Miami-Dade County	Explains half the conversations I have in Little Haiti coffee shops now. No flash, just a clean pass to the open guy: watch the elevation maps, not the skyline renderings.	Urban Planning	H. Hallwachs, J. Keenan	2019	Urban Climate	Higher-elevation, historically lower-income neighborhoods are seeing faster property value growth	20 min
3Urban Heat Island Effects in Miami-Dade County	Read this before your next sunrise run and you'll start noticing which blocks have shade and which don't. Not glamorous work, just good spacing.	Climate Science	University of Miami researchers	2021	Climate	Tree canopy gaps correlate with multi-degree temperature spikes in low-income tracts	18 min
4Traffic Congestion and Highway Capacity in South Florida	Induced demand, basically confirmed with data. I bring this up every time someone suggests widening 95 will fix the Brickell commute. It won't. Neither does isolation on a switch.	Transportation Engineering	Florida DOT / FIU researchers	2020	Transportation Research Record	Added highway lanes on I-95 show diminishing returns on congestion within a few years	22 min
5Ocean Acidification Impacts on Biscayne Bay Coral Communities	Makes snorkeling off Key Biscayne feel a little different. Not a doom read, just the kind of paper that makes you tip better at the dive shop.	Marine Biology	NOAA / University of Miami Rosenstiel School	2020	Marine Ecology Progress Series	Nearshore reef systems show measurable stress correlated with runoff and temperature	20 min
6Tourism Dependency and Economic Resilience in Coastal Cities	Relevant every time a food truck I love in Brickell has a rough month. Diversify the offense, basically, or one bad possession sinks the whole quarter.	Economics	FIU Chapman School researchers	2019	Tourism Economics	Cities overweighted on tourism GDP recover slower from external shocks	17 min
7Gig Economy Platforms and Labor Precarity in Urban Delivery Services	I think about this every time a delivery app driver beats an ETA I'd have called optimistic. Good execution under a bad system is still good execution.	Labor Economics	Various, meta-analysis	2022	Journal of Urban Affairs	Algorithmic scheduling shifts income risk onto workers without formal employment protections	24 min
8Efficiency and Frequency of the Pick-and-Roll in Professional Basketball	The one paper on this list I'd defend in an actual argument at a bar. Confirms what every pickup run at 7am already teaches you: simple beats spectacular.	Sports Analytics	MIT Sloan Sports Analytics contributors	2015	MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference Proceedings	Pick-and-roll possessions outperform isolation plays in points per possession across most lineups	15 min

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