Brown Bag - Archive | University Center for Social and Urban Research

Academic Year 2018-19 · Winter-Spring 2019

"Governing without Government: Nonprofit Governance in Detroit and Flint," Davia Downey
Planning for Multimodal Transportation Corridors," David Totten

"From Bricks & Mortar to Virtual Spaces: Using Digital Innovation to Advance Nonprofit Missions ," Catherine DeLoughry, Toby Greenwalt, Regina McDonald Russian
"The Crisis of the African-American Middle Neighborhood," Alan Mallach

"Looking Ahead — What the Trump Administration Means for Brownfield Redevelopment," Charlie Bartsch
"What Helps and Hinders Green Infrastructure on Vacant Land in Legacy Cities?," Margaret Dewar, PhD & Moria Egler
"Are Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Exacerbating Urban Inequality? Evidence from Four Cities"," Elsie Harper-Anderson, PhD
"Can Participatory Mapping Platforms Change the Way We Work with Urban Perceptions?," Jiří Pánek, PhD

"Remaking Post-Industrial Cities: Lessons from North America and Europe," Donald K. Carter, FAIA
"Building Community and Ecological Resiliency Through Obsolete Infrastructure Removal," Lisa Hollingsworth-Segedy, AICP
"Parcel Scale Green Infrastructure Siting and Cost Effectiveness Analysis for Pittsburgh, PA," Michael Blackhurst, PhD
"Smart Cities and Sustainability," Grant Ervin

"Modelling Predatory Mortgage Lending," Kristen B. Crossney, PhD
"Producing and Preserving Affordable Housing in Shrinking Cities," J. Rosie Tighe, PhD
"Affordable for Who? New York City’s Affordable Housing Plan," Alex Schwartz, PhD

"Exacting a Pound of Flesh: Neighborhood Environments, Childhood Food Insecurity and Obesity," Anna Santiago, PhD
"Operating the Game-theoretic National Interstate Economic Model: A Numerical Example of Aviation Cyber Security," JiYoung Park, PhD
"Coupling Systems, Building Coalitions: Connecting Housing, Energy and Transit in U.S. Cities," Barbara Wilson Brown, PhD
"The Monroeville Doctrine: The Suburbanization of Industrial Research in Twentieth Century Pittsburgh," Patrick Vitale, PhD

"Understanding and Addressing the Housing Crisis for America's Lowest Income Households," Andrew Aurand, PhD
"Interdisciplinary Modeling of Environmental Resources: Insights from Three Recent Projects," Michael Blackhurst, PhD
"Urban renewal in Europe: Is renewing deprived areas of European cities a European matter?," Aisling Healy PhD
"Modeling Community Mapping: Mashing Up Government Data and Online Community Data in Korea," Sunsoo Hwang, PhD

"Shrinking Cities: Are We Siting Affordable Housing in Neighborhoods of Opportunity?" Robert Silverman, PhD
"Multigenerational Planning for Elders and Children," Mildred E. Warner, PhD

"Inclusionary Eminent Domain: Reconciling the Fifth Amendment Takings Clause with Affordable Housing, Urban Development and Planning Law," Gerald S. Dickinson, Esq
"The Potential of Tracking Technologies for Research in the Social Sciences," Noam Shoval, PhD
"Land Banks and ‘Land Aid’ in Pennsylvania Cities and Towns," John Kromer
"Creative Cities: The Future of Research in Urban Arts and Culture," Ann Markusen, PhD
"Who Benefits from Collaborative Planning? Reclaiming the East 185th Street Corridor in Cleveland," Jordan Yin, PhD

"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

"Health and Geographic Information Systems," Kristen Kurland & David Wallace, MD, MPH
"Driving Detroit: The Quest for Respect in the Motor City," George Galster, PhD
"Race, Ethnicity, and Zoning in Chicago," Randall Walsh, PhD
"The Changing Role of Public Housing Authorities in the Affordable Housing Delivery System," Rachel Garshick Kleit, PhD

"Negotiating with the Growth Machine: Community Benefits Agreements and Value-Conscious Growth," Colleen Cain, PhD
"The Promise and Power of Open Data," Mark Headd
"A Bridge for a Thousand Years: How Planners Should Think About Infrastructure," Ernest Sternberg, PhD
"The City After Abandonment; Urban Policy After Neoliberalism," Jason Hackworth, PhD
"Aging in Place: An Exploration of Built Environment Challenges in the Rust Belt," Beverly McLean, PhD

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
"Micro-Participation: Community Engaging in Planning with Social Media," Jennifer Evans-Cowley, PhD
"Mapping Vacancy, Delinquency, and Abandonment: Constructing Useful Indices in an Imperfect Data Environment," David Bartelt, PhD
"Social, Spatial, and Economic Transformations in Deindustrializing Cities," Tracy Neumann, PhD
"Residential and School Mobility: Implications for Place-Based Initiatives," Claudia Coulton, PhD, MSW
"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

"Modeling the Impact of the Port Authority´s Service Cuts," Kathleen Colbert-Gibson
"Where the Streets have Four Names: Building Address Standards in Allegheny County's Municipalities," Matt Mercurio
"Re-Thinking the Future of Community Development Corporations," W. Dennis Keating, PhD
"Under the Suface: Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale," Tom Wilber, Author
"Sustainable Social Housing: A Comparison of Experience in the US and UK," Len Gibbs, CEO

"Anchor-Based Economic and Community Development Strategies," Ziona Austrian & Kathy Hexter
"Active Aging from an Intergenerational Perspective," Elza de Souza
"Analyzing Urban Structure in Pittsburgh with Network Models and Cartography," Donald Buckwalter, PhD
"Housing Demand and Neighborhood Choice with Housing Vouchers in Pittsburgh," Judy Geyer, PhD

"Do Local Anti-predatory Lending Laws Work? Evidence from Cleveland," Yilan Xu
"Shrinking Cities: What Can Be Done," Alan Mallach
"Neighborhood Revitalization: Keys to Success and Future Challenges," Karl Schlachter

"White Flight / Black Flight: The Dynamics of Racial Change in an American Neighborhood," Rachael Woldoff, PhD
"Mortgage Delinquencies in Pennsylvania: Are Loan Modifications Stemming the Tide?," Lisa Nelson
The Orderliness of Urban "Disorder": Drug Dealing "Careers" and the Local Interaction Order of a Place," Waverly Duck, PhD
"Neighborhood Quality, Parental Knowledge, and Parental Control of Children: Assessing Aspects of Parental Monitoring," Anita Zuberi, PhD

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