Tracy Hadden Loh

Tracy Hadden Loh is a fellow with the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking at the Brookings Institution. Prior to joining Brookings, Tracy was senior data scientist at the Center for Real Estate & Urban Analysis at the George Washington University School of Business. She was previously the director of research at the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy. She is a graduate of DC public schools and holds a Ph.D. in city and regional planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to her research interest in placemaking, she served two years representing Ward 1 on the Mount Rainier City Council in Prince George’s County, Md. Dr. Loh is currently a member of the Transportation Research Board Standing Committee on Bicycle Transportation at the National Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Loh’s research focuses on commercial real estate and how place-level assets interact and affect the opportunities, prospects, and resilience of the people and enterprises that call a place home. She has recently written about the impact of COVID-19 on the retail sector and the need for governance reform to address the extreme and growing spatialization of inequality in U.S. metropolitan regions.

EDUCATION

• Ph.D, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Combined B.Sc./B.A., Brown University in Applied Math/Computer Science and Urban Studies