Sidney Wong, Ph.D. Project Lead of ESI Community Data Analytics. He is a fiscal impact study consultant and a leading researcher in demographic multipliers, just published an article in this regard in Cityscape. Currently he is writing a book on China’s planning history relating to two renowned 1927 Penn architecture graduates. Wong holds a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from University of California at Berkeley. He had taught planning and urban studies at University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, Morgan State University, and Florida International University. His research includes American highway planning history, land value capture, land system and property tax, and economic development. He had been a member of the American Planning Association, and served in the Executive Committee of the Maryland Chapter; and a frequent CPE lecturer in national and state planning conferences on impact analysis. He served as a senior consultant with the World Bank, a director of a HUD Community Outreach Partnership Center in Miami, and a zoning officer in Hong Kong. In the late 1980s, he was a member of the Royal Town Planning Institute and the Hong Kong Institute of Planners, where he still serves as their honorary journal editor. He also completed a book manuscript Chinese Planning: Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin, published two articles at Penn DesignConnect.