Faculty Work
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Workbook Tackles Injustice – and Carbon – in Built Environment
Jennifer Minner, Felix Heisel, Jocelyn Poe
CRP faculty Jocelyn Poe and Jennifer Minner, along with Architecture faculty Felix Heisel, are among several coauthors who recently published Embodying Justice in the Built Environment: Circularity in Practice. The guide and workbook seek to help policymakers, practitioners, and communities center justice principles while implementing strategies related to materials resource management, new construction, and alternatives to demolition.
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Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Assessing the Digital Divide in Affordable Housing: The Power of Collective Action
Mildred Warner
Coauthored by CRP Professor Mildred Warner, Duxixi Shen (M.R.P. '23), Jane Bowman Brady (M.P.A. '23), and Ella Redmond (M.A. RS '25), this report explores three unique case studies that address digital access, affordability, and adoption in low-income multi-family housing.
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Monday, April 1, 2024
Equitable Zoning for Manufactured Housing
George R. Frantz
Manufactured housing has remained an underexploited opportunity for providing millions of Americans with decent, affordable housing. In this issue of Zoning Practice, CRP Associate Professor of the Practice George R. Frantz examines the persistent inequitable treatment of manufactured housing in many local zoning codes and offers considerations for code updates.
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Monday, March 18, 2024
Transnationalizing Intrapreneurship of Chinese Private Investment in Africa
Ding Fei
A paper authored by CRP Assistant Professor Ding Fei published in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space investigates the structures, forces, and actors that drive and constrain transnationalizing intrapreneurship under Chinese private investment in Africa.
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Friday, March 15, 2024
Sprout of Gotham
Thomas J. Campanella
In a feature for The Cultural Landscape Foundation, CRP Professor Thomas J. Campanella offers a profile of the work of Mary Elizabeth Sprout, designer of many of New York City's iconic gardens.
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Thursday, January 25, 2024
Can Polycentric Urban Development Simultaneously Achieve Both Economic Growth and Regional Equity? A Multi-Scale Analysis of German Regions
Stephan Schmidt
CRP Associate Professor Stephan Schmidt coauthored research published in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space examining the role of regional polycentricity in effectuating certain desirable outcomes, specifically enhancing economic productivity and minimizing spatial disparities.
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Thursday, January 25, 2024
Can Spatial Patterns Mitigate the Urban Heat Island Effect? Evidence from German Metropolitan Regions
Stephan Schmidt
A paper coauthored by CRP Associate Professor Stephan Schmidt published in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science explores the potential of certain features of urban fabric and the benefits of polycentric development.
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Thursday, November 30, 2023
State Broadband Report
Mildred Warner
Ph.D. candidate Natassia Bravo, under the supervision of CRP Professor Mildred E. Warner, examined data collected by The Pew Charitable Trusts on state broadband grants and explored the criteria for grant allocation, and whether needed funds made it to communities less likely to be served by broadband — rural, sparsely populated, and high-poverty.
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Monday, November 20, 2023
Sector Interactions, Multiple Stressors, and Complex Systems
Linda Shi
CRP Assistant Professor Linda Shi is a co-author of a chapter in the Fifth National Climate Assessment examining intersectional vulnerabilities to climate risks.
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Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Pandemic Relief Spending by New York Local Governments
Mildred Warner
An article in the Journal of Rural Studies explores how New York State local governments planned to use their American Rescue Act funding, which encouraged communities to invest in infrastructure, resilience, and equity.
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Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Opportunities to Support Equitable and Just Housing Adaptation in the Floodplain
Linda Shi
CRP Assistant Professor Linda Shi coauthored a post on the Environmental Defense Fund blog to share preliminary takeaways about opportunities to close the resilient housing gap.
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Friday, October 13, 2023
High Stakes, High Hopes: Urban Theorizing in Partnership
Sophie Oldfield
CRP Chair Sophie Oldfield's new book explores how research and assessment were reshaped when framed in neighborhood questions and commitments, and what was reoriented in urban theorizing when community activism and township struggles were recognized as sites of valid knowledge-making.
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Monday, September 11, 2023
Intermunicipal Cooperation and Agreement Formalization
Mildred Warner
CRP Professor Mildred Warner has coauthored a paper in the Journal of Economic Policy Reform that investigates the effect formalization of cooperation agreements has on the cost of service delivery across NYS local governments.
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Friday, September 8, 2023
Representative Bureaucracy, Age-Friendly Planning, and the Role of Gender, Public Engagement, and Professional Management
Mildred Warner
In an article published by Administration & Society, CRP Professor Mildred Warner and Xue Zhang explore what leads to more age-friendly cities.
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Tuesday, July 25, 2023
Factors Limiting U.S. Public Health Emergency Authority During COVID-19
Mildred Warner
CRP Professor Mildred Warner coauthors this paper published in the International Journal of Health Planning and Management exploring how new limits on emergency public health authority raise concerns about how states and localities will prevent and respond to future public health challenges.
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Friday, July 14, 2023
Cross-Agency Collaboration to Address Rural Aging: The Role of County Government
Mildred Warner
An article posted by the Journal of Aging & Social Policy explores how county governments, by supporting cross-agency collaboration and encouraging civic engagement, can link the age-friendly domains regarding built environment, service delivery, and community together to help address age-friendly issues and support rural aging.
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Friday, July 14, 2023
Planning for Climate Transformations
Linda Shi
This special issue of the Journal of Planning Literature invites scholars to consider how planning research can inform transformative climate initiatives and how planning itself needs to evolve to better support climate transformation.
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Friday, July 7, 2023
Community Development, Volume 54, Issue 4
Mildred Warner
Together with colleagues, CRP Professor Mildred Warner stewarded this special issue focused on the role of schools in community development.