Professor Pruitt talks to Marketplace about Google's $7 billion real estate plan

Professor Lisa R. Pruitt spoke to reporter Erika Beras of the public radio program Marketplace for a “Marketplace Minute” report on Google’s plan to invest $7 billion in real estate nationwide. 

Some of the investment, Beras explained, will go toward office space, adding room for thousands of hires in cities such as Atlanta and Chicago and opening new offices in Texas and Mississippi.

Pruitt, who studies the rural-urban divide, told Beras that Google might be helping to give people “who might have an attachment to their Midwestern or Southern community” a reason to stay rather than go somewhere else to find work. Listen to/read the report.

Lisa R. Pruitt, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor at UC Davis School of Law, is a scholar whose recent work explores the legal relevance of rural spatiality, including how it inflects dimensions of gender, race, and ethnicity.  Pruitt's work also considers rural-urban difference in transnational and international contexts. She is the recipient of the law school’s 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award.