Brown Bag - Summary List

• 2019 Nov 15:  "LGBTQ+ Civil Rights: Local Government Efforts in a Volatile Era"  Nicole Elias

• 2019 Feb 08:  "Governing without Government: Nonprofit Governance in Detroit and Flint,"  Davia Downey
• 2019 Jan 11:  "Planning for Multimodal Transportation Corridors,"  David Totten

• 2018 Nov 9:  "From Bricks & Mortar to Virtual Spaces: Using Digital Innovation to Advance Nonprofit Missions ,"  Catherine DeLoughry, Toby Greenwalt, Regina McDonald Russian
• 2018 Oct 30:  "The Crisis of the African-American Middle Neighborhood,"  Alan Mallach
• 2018 Mar 23:  "Urban Apartheid & the 2016 Summer Olympics,"  Ty Redden, PhD

• 2017 Dec 08:  "Looking Ahead — What the Trump Administration Means for Brownfield Redevelopment,"  Charlie Bartsch
• 2017 Dec 01:  "What Helps and Hinders Green Infrastructure on Vacant Land in Legacy Cities?,"  Margaret Dewar, PhD & Moria Egler
• 2017 Nov 10:  "Are Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Exacerbating Urban Inequality?  Evidence from Four Cities","  Elsie Harper-Anderson, PhD
• 2017 Nov 03:  "Can Participatory Mapping Platforms Change the Way We Work with Urban Perceptions?,"  Jiří Pánek, PhD
• 2017 Mar 24:  "Remaking Post-Industrial Cities: Lessons from North America and Europe,"  Donald K. Carter, FAIA
• 2017 Feb 17:  "Building Community and Ecological Resiliency Through Obsolete Infrastructure Removal,"  Lisa Hollingsworth-Segedy, AICP
• 2017 Feb 03:  "Parcel Scale Green Infrastructure Siting and Cost Effectiveness Analysis for Pittsburgh, PA,"  Michael Blackhurst, PhD
• 2017 Jan 20:  "Smart Cities and Sustainability,"  Grant Ervin

• 2016 Dec 02:  "Modelling Predatory Mortgage Lending,"  Kristen B. Crossney, PhD
• 2016 Oct 28:  "Producing and Preserving Affordable Housing in Shrinking Cities,"  J. Rosie Tighe, PhD
• 2016 Sep 30:   "Affordable for Who?  New York City’s Affordable Housing Plan,"  Alex Schwartz, PhD
• 2016 May 20:  "Exacting a Pound of Flesh:  Neighborhood Environments, Childhood Food Insecurity and Obesity,"  Anna Santiago, PhD
• 2016 Apr 15:  "Operating the Game-theoretic National Interstate Economic Model:  A Numerical Example of Aviation Cyber Security,"  JiYoung Park, PhD
• 2016 Feb 26:  "Coupling Systems, Building Coalitions: Connecting Housing, Energy and Transit in U.S. Cities,"  Barbara Wilson Brown, PhD
• 2016 Jan 22:  "The Monroeville Doctrine: The Suburbanization of Industrial Research in Twentieth Century Pittsburgh,"  Patrick Vitale, PhD

• 2015 Dec 04:  "Understanding and Addressing the Housing Crisis for America's Lowest Income Households,"  Andrew Aurand, PhD
• 2015 Nov 13:  "Interdisciplinary Modeling of Environmental Resources:  Insights from Three Recent Projects,"  Michael Blackhurst, PhD
• 2015 Oct 23:  "Urban renewal in Europe: Is renewing deprived areas of European cities a European matter?,"  Aisling Healy PhD
• 2015 Oct 09:  "Modeling Community Mapping:  Mashing Up Government Data and Online Community Data in Korea,"  Sunsoo Hwang, PhD
• 2015 Mar 20:  "Shrinking Cities:  Are We Siting Affordable Housing in Neighborhoods of Opportunity?"  Robert Silverman, PhD
• 2015 Feb 13:  "Multigenerational Planning for Elders and Children,"  Mildred E. Warner, PhD

• 2014 Dec 05:  "Inclusionary Eminent Domain: Reconciling the Fifth Amendment Takings Clause with Affordable Housing, Urban Development and Planning Law,"  Gerald S. Dickinson, Esq
• 2014 Nov 21:  "The Potential of Tracking Technologies for Research in the Social Sciences,"  Noam Shoval, PhD
• 2014 Nov 07:  "Land Banks and ‘Land Aid’ in Pennsylvania Cities and Towns,"  John Kromer
• 2014 Oct 29:  "Creative Cities: The Future of Research in Urban Arts and Culture,"  Ann Markusen, PhD
• 2014 Oct 17:  "Who Benefits from Collaborative Planning?  Reclaiming the East 185th Street Corridor in Cleveland,"  Jordan Yin, PhD
• 2014 Jun 13:  "Information Systems for Land Banking  (How we’ve used data to acquire 4,000 properties, demolish 2,500 structures and rehab 1,000 parcels in the Cuyahoga Land Bank!),"  Mike Schramm
• 2014 Feb 28:  "Health and Geographic Information Systems,"  Kristen Kurland & David Wallace, MD, MPH
• 2014 Feb 21:  "Driving Detroit:  The Quest for Respect in the Motor City,"  George Galster, PhD
• 2014 Feb 07:  "Race, Ethnicity, and Zoning in Chicago,"  Randall Walsh, PhD
• 2014 Jan 24:  "The Changing Role of Public Housing Authorities in the Affordable Housing Delivery System,"  Rachel Garshick Kleit, PhD

• 2013 Dec 06:  "Negotiating with the Growth Machine: Community Benefits Agreements and Value-Conscious Growth,"  Colleen Cain, PhD
• 2013 Nov 21:  "The Promise and Power of Open Data,"  Mark Headd
• 2013 Nov 14:  "A Bridge for a Thousand Years: How Planners Should Think About Infrastructure,"  Ernest Sternberg, PhD
• 2013 Nov 08:  "The City After Abandonment; Urban Policy After Neoliberalism,"  Jason Hackworth, PhD
• 2013 Oct 25:  "Aging in Place: An Exploration of Built Environment Challenges in the Rust Belt,"  Beverly McLean, PhD
• 2013 Apr 30:  Special Brown Bag Presentation, UCSUR's 40th Anniversary Celebration, "Re-Booting the New Federalism,"  Paul O'Neill with opening remarks by Richard Schulz and Chancellor Mark Nordenberg
• 2013 Apr 12:  "Micro-Participation:  Community Engaging in Planning with Social Media,"  Jennifer Evans-Cowley, PhD
• 2013 Mar 22:  "Mapping Vacancy, Delinquency, and Abandonment: Constructing Useful Indices in an Imperfect Data Environment,"  David Bartelt, PhD
• 2013 Feb 22:  "Social, Spatial, and Economic Transformations in Deindustrializing Cities,"  Tracy Neumann, PhD
• 2013 Feb 15:  "Residential and School Mobility: Implications for Place-Based Initiatives,"  Claudia Coulton, PhD, MSW
• 2013 Feb 01:  "How do Residents Define their Neighborhood Using Online Tools?  Results from Pittsburgh and New York City," Jessie Carr MPH, Jane Clougherty MSc, ScD, & Isaac Johnson

• 2012 Dec 07:  "Modeling the Impact of the Port Authority´s Service Cuts,"  Kathleen Colbert-Gibson
• 2012 Nov 16:  "Where the Streets have Four Names:  Building Address Standards in Allegheny County's Municipalities,"  Matt Mercurio
• 2012 Oct 05:  "Re-Thinking the Future of Community Development Corporations,"  W. Dennis Keating, PhD
• 2012 Sep 17:  "Under the Suface:  Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale,"  Tom Wilber, Author
• 2012 Sep 07:  "Sustainable Social Housing:  A Comparison of Experience in the US and UK,"  Len Gibbs, CEO
• 2012 Mar 23:  "Anchor-Based Economic and Community Development Strategies,"  Ziona Austrian & Kathy Hexter
• 2012 Feb 10:  "Active Aging from an Intergenerational Perspective,"  Elza de Souza
• 2012 Jan 20:  "Analyzing Urban Structure in Pittsburgh with Network Models and Cartography,"  Donald Buckwalter, PhD
• 2012 Jan 12:  "Housing Demand and Neighborhood Choice with Housing Vouchers in Pittsburgh,"  Judy Geyer, PhD

• 2011 Nov 18:  "Do Local Anti-predatory Lending Laws Work? Evidence from Cleveland,"  Yilan Xu
• 2011 Oct 07:  "Shrinking Cities: What Can Be Done,"  Alan Mallach
• 2011 Sep 22:  "Neighborhood Revitalization: Keys to Success and Future Challenges,"  Karl Schlachter
• 2011 Apr 15:  "White Flight / Black Flight: The Dynamics of Racial Change in an American Neighborhood,"  Rachael Woldoff, PhD
• 2011 Mar 25:  "Mortgage Delinquencies in Pennsylvania: Are Loan Modifications Stemming the Tide?,"  Lisa Nelson
• 2011 Feb 25:  The Orderliness of Urban "Disorder": Drug Dealing "Careers" and the Local Interaction Order of a Place,"  Waverly Duck, PhD
• 2011 Jan 28:  "Neighborhood Quality, Parental Knowledge, and Parental Control of Children: Assessing Aspects of Parental Monitoring,"  Anita Zuberi, PhD

• 2010 Nov 12:  "The Social Organization & Everyday Life of Suburban Poverty:  An Ethnographic Community Study," Alexandra Murphy, PhD
• 2010 Nov 05:  "Urban Economics:  Foreclosure, Vacancy and Crime," Dr. Randy Walsh PhD and Lin Cui
• 2010, Oct 29:  "Upper Silesia and the Ruhr: The Transition of Old Industrial Regions in Europe,"  Martin Pudlik and CyrylGaras