Michael Storper

Michael Storper completed a bachelor's degree in sociology and history in 1975, followed by a masters in 1979 and a PhD in geography in 1982 from the University of California, Berkeley.

[1] In 2014 he was named by Thomson Reuters as one of the "World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds" of the 21st century for his writings being among the top 1% most cited in the field of social sciences.

[2] He is a fellow of the British Academy[3] and in 2016 received the Founder's Medal from the Royal Geographical Society.

[5] Storper criticized California Senate Bill 50, which would have eliminated single-family zoning statewide and replaced it with four-plex residential zoning, and enabled dense housing near public transit stations and jobs centers.

[10] Both the authors of the article and authors writing in response have characterized this position as outside the mainstream consensus of urban economics that strict zoning is the primary cause of the supply shortage and resulting high prices.