A5023928809- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Transportation Planning and Optimization
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Urbanization and City Planning
- Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
- Housing Market and Economics
- History of Science and Medicine
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Rural development and sustainability
- Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- 3D Modeling in Geospatial Applications
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends
- Taxation and Compliance Studies
University of Maryland, College Park
2019-2024
The amount of empirical research on the extent, causes, and consequences gentrification continues to expand. This article reviews methods utilized delimit quantify in literature. Such measurement is undertaken order assess gentrification, such as displacement, over various time scales geographies. Recent has demonstrated that use different quantitative definitions may yield conflicting results, further, can muddy waters for policymaking political discourse. critically assesses breadth offers...
Problem, research strategy, and findings: Planners today are confronted with unprecedented uncertainty in economic, political, technological environments, especially at the regional scale. An increasingly common approach to addressing such is exploratory scenario analysis. To provide new insights into methods utility of analyses, we conducted a analysis Baltimore (MD)–Washington (DC) region by engaging technical advisory committee exercising loosely coupled suite advanced transportation,...
The effects of transit investments on land and housing values are a longstanding topic interest in part because the nature timing those important for designing anti-displacement value capture strategies. For these reasons, we explore whether multifamily unit rents have increased planned station areas before Purple Line light rail project Maryland is operational. We employ difference-in-difference (DID) approach to this question validate DID results with first difference approach. find that...
The main policy initiative of the Obama administration's first-term urban agenda was Partnership for Sustainable Communities, which issued Communities Regional Planning Grants (SCRPGs) to regions across country. As participant activist scholars in SCRPG planning process Baltimore, Maryland, we present our analysis 4 aspects regional equity planning: community engagement, collaboration, housing policy, and use opportunity equity-related data. We find that enabled adoption a unique outreach...
The State of Maryland is investing in a new light rail line, the Purple Line, suburbs Washington, DC. Whether or not corridor it travels through gentrifying unknown, as are impacts both construction and neighborhood gentrification on local economy. In this paper, census data used to identify along line. With novel source, employment, wages, firm closures tracked analyzed. Even advance completion much Line Corridor gentrifying, businesses potentially significant.
Government agencies and nonprofit organizations have increasingly used spatial data to create equity opportunity atlases or maps. This paper investigates how such maps been integrated into planning processes, if they useful in catalyzing engagement on issues. We employ a multiple case study approach assess efforts five U.S. regions: Atlanta, Denver, Minneapolis–St. Paul, Portland, Seattle. Our findings show that mapping stimulated new conversations, local actions, regional plans, but many...
Actors in urban development use and respond to many plans made by organizations, both public private, at different times with purposes scopes. Coping such networks of information constraints presents an opportunity advance planning support systems (PSS). The Plans Regulations Information Tool (PaRIT) is a computing interface that enables spatial queries identify access regulations. We illustrate the capabilities PaRIT applications light rail project Maryland. Choices developing demonstrate...
The Washington Metropolitan area has been growing rapidly and experiencing gentrification since the 1980s. Contemporaneously, a light rail corridor in inner suburbs was planned is currently being constructed. This rail, Maryland’s Purple Line, travels through dense urban areas, post-war era suburbs, series of low-income immigrant gateway neighborhoods. Through case study Line during construction phase, this paper examines costs benefits modern paradigm transit-oriented development....
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Decades into the digital era, publicly available data on Black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) owned businesses are still remarkably lacking. In this commentary piece, authors cover recent literature importance BIPOC-owned for equitable growth BIPOC wealth-building. The then examine sources that – public private tracking success or failure such businesses. A business database was constructed from a variety used by to potential pitfalls exercises. close with call better collection