Below are recent publications from the Urban Studies & Planning Program's faculty, alumni and students.
MAPP IN THE NEWS SCHOOL PUBLICATIONS
2024
Alves, P., Amanguah, E., McNally, D., Espinoza, M., Ghaedi, H., Reilly, A., Hendricks, M. (2024). "Navigating the definition of urban flooding: a conceptual and systematic review of the literature." Water Science & Technology. DOI: 10.2166/wst.2024.351.
Bierbaum, A. (2024). "Rebuilding Together: How One Baltimore Program Advanced Both Education and Community Development." Shelterforce.
Finio, N. (2024). "Suburban Gentrification: Change, Stasis and TOD along the Purple Line." Journal of Planning Education and Research. DOI: 10.1177/0739456X241298945
Hanley, C., Howell, K., & Teresa, B. (2024). "Power in the Court: Legal Argumentation and the Hierarchy of Credibility in Eviction Hearing." Socius: Sociological Research fora Dynamic World, 10, 1-13. DOI: 10.1177/23780231241266510
Hendricks, M., Qianyao, Si., Pavao-Zuckerman, M., et al. (2024). "A Smart, Connected, and Sustainable Campus Community: Using the Internet of Things (IoT) and low-cost sensors to improve stormwater management at UMD/Greater College Park." https://doi.org/10.13016/cwdv-zer6.
Irazábal, C. (2024). "Latin American Perspectives on the Urban Century: Planning Challenges and Opportunities." Latin American Perspectives. DOI: 10.1177/0094582X241257500
Jourdan, D. (2024). "Social (in)equality, community well-being and quality of life, by Patsy Kraeger, M. Rezaul Islam, and Rhonda Phillips." Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2024.2388985.
Levy, J., Hirt, S., Dawkins, C. (2024). "Contemporary Urban Planning" (12th edition). Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003291145.
Lung-Amam, W. (2024). "The Right to Suburbia:Combating Gentrification on the Urban Edge" (First Edition). University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520338173/the-right-to-suburbia#about-book.
Metawala, P., Golda-Pongratz, K. & Irazábal, C. (2024). "All in a Day’s Work: Impacts of On-Demand Platform Delivery Work on Immigrant Riders in Barcelona." Geographies of the Platform Economy. Economic Geography. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-53594-9_11.
Si, Q., Brito, H.C., Alves, P.B.R. et al. (2024). "GIS-based spatial approaches to refining urban catchment delineation that integrate stormwater network infrastructure". Discov Water 4, 24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43832-024-00083-z.
Smirnova, M., Ayala, J., & Irazabal, C. (2024). “What Do We Want? Housing! When Do We Want It? Now!” Building a Social Movement in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Black Lives Matter, and Housing Injustice." Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 10. https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231241290540.
Teresa, B. F., Howell, K. L., Suen, I. S., Robinson, A., & Sabo, R. (2024). "Moving From Crisis to Stability? The Success and Limits of an Eviction Prevention Program." Housing Policy Debate, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/10511482.2024.2368133
Ye, X., Zhao, G., Peng, Q., Dawkins, C., Kim, J., & Wu, L. Global Trends in Housing Research over the Past three Decades. Comput.Urban Sci. 4, 17 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43762-024-00129-x
2023
Bierbaum, A. (2023). "Stories of School Travel: Using a Mobility Justice Framework for Desegregation Research and Policy." American Institutes for Research.
Bierbaum, A., Bierbaum, M. (2023). "Marking Change at the Jersey Shore: Lessons from Asbury Park, New Jersey" Informationen zur Raumentwicklung (IzR).
Cyrus, C., Finio, N., Hopkins, L., Knaap, G. (2023). "PaRIT: A Planning Support System to Cope with a Network of Plans and Regulations." Journal of Planning Education and Research.. DOI: 10.1177/0739456X23119
Dawkins, C. (2023). "Bringing Institutions Into the Opportunity Hoarding Debate." Housing Policy Debate, 33(4), 793-796. DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2023.2173981
Dawkins, C. (2023). "Who Benefits From Homeowner Tax Preferences?". Housing Policy Debate. DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2022.2157218
DeBray, E., Tegeler, P., Bierbaum, A., & Greenlee, A. (2023). "The Role of the Federal Government in Promoting Cross-Sector Regional Collaboration." Poverty & Race Journal.
Finio, N., Fang, L., Prendergast, C., Knaap, K. (2023). "Data on Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC)-Owned Businesses: What's Out There and What Can Be Done?" Economic Development Quarterly. DOI: 10.1177/08912424231203661.
Finio, N. (2023). "Gentrification and Business Closures in Maryland’s Purple Line Corridor." Journal of Planning Education and Research. DOI: 10.1177/0739456X231187119
Hatch, M., Raymond, E., Teresa, B., Howell, K. (2023). "A data feminist approach to urban data practice: Tenant power through eviction data." Journal of Urban Affairs. DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2023.2262629
Howell, K. (2023). "Transit Diary: A planning professor crisscrosses state lines on trails & rails." Greater Greater Washington.
Irazábal, C., Ayala, J. (2023). "Urban Planning and Heterodox Economics in the United States: Progressive Partners to Reduce Inequalities." Transitioning to Reducing Inequalities.
Irazábal, C., McManus, S. (2023). “Migration and Integration of Middle-Class Venezuelans in Costa Rica: Drivers, Capitals, and Livelihoods.” Wellbeing, Space & Society, 5(100151), 1-13.
Jones, A., Alves, P., Drakeford, B., Hendricks, M. (2024). "Slow violence to disasters: Exploring racialized topographies and contextualizing social vulnerability to flood and other environmental risks." International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 105. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104409.
Jourdan, D., Lee, C., Newman, G., VanZandt, S., Ye, X. (2023). "Contemplating Reparations of Indigenous Peoples." Journal of Planning Education and Research. DOI: 10.1177/0739456X23118045
Jourdan, D., Ye, X., Newman, G., Lee, C., Van Zandt, S. (2023). "Toward Urban Artificial Intelligence for Developing Justice-Oriented Smart Cities." Journal of Planning Education and Research, 43(1), 6-7. DOI: 10.1177/0739456X231154002
Lung-Amam, W. (2023). "The Not-So-New South Suburbs: Asian Immigration and the Politics of School Integration in Chapel Hill, North Carolina". Journal of the Social Sciences, 9 (2) 55-74. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2023.9.2.03
Peng, Q., Knaap, G. (2023). "Do Multifamily unit Rents Increase in Response to Light Rail in the Pre-service Period?". International Regional Science Review. DOI: 10.1177/01600176231162563
Peng, Q., Knaap, G. (2023). "When and Where Do Home Values Increase in Response to Planned Light Rail Construction?" Journal of Planning Education and Research. DOI: 10.1177/0739456X22113302
Reemberto, R., Lung-Amam, W., Knaap, G., Johnson, D. (2023). "Keeping Small Businesses in Place: Voices From the Field Case Studies of Communities Combating Commercial Gentrification". Small Business Anti-Displacement Network.
2022
Bierbaum, A., Butler, A., O'Keefe, E. (2022). "School-centered community development: Lessons from Baltimore’s 21st century school buildings program". Journal of Community Development. DOI: 10.1080/15575330.2022.2123015.
Bierbaum, A., Butler A., O’Keefe E (2022). "Leveraging Community Schools for Community Development: Lessons from Baltimore’s 21st Century School Buildings Program". Urban Education. DOI: 10.1177/00420859221107615
Dawkins, C, (2022). "Land Use Regulations, Housing Supply, and County Eviction Filings". Journal of Planning Education and Research. DOI: 10.1177/0739456X221118104
Dawkins, C, (2022). "Placing U.S. Federal Housing Policy on a Secure Foundation: The SHELTER Plan". Journal of the American Planning Association, 88 (3). DOI: 10.1080/01944363.2022.2078735
Dawkins, C, (2022). "The Enigma of Housing Choice". Journal of Comparative Urban Law and Policy, 29 (1), 200-201.
Dawkins, C. (2022). "The geography of US homeownership tax expenditures." Journal of Housing Economics, 59, (A). DOI: 10.1016/j.jhe.2022.101888
Dawkins, C., Eom, H. (2022). "Decomposing changes in the geography of metropolitan inequality". Journal of Urban Affairs. DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2022.2105707
Hendricks, M. (2022). "Leveraging Critical Infrastructure Within an Environmental Justice Framework for Public Health Prevention". American Journal of Public Health. DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2022.306883
Irazabal, C., González-Pérez, J., Lois-González, R. (2022). "The Routledge Handbook of Urban Studies in Latin America and the Caribbean". Routledge. ISBN 9780367677404. [Virtual presentation, Spanish]
Irazabal, C., Jacobi, P., Torres, P. (2022). "Urban Greening in the Global South: Green Gentrification and Beyond". Journal: Frontiers in Sustainable Cities. DOI: 10.3389/frsc.2022.865940
Irazabal, C., Letelier, R., Benach, N., Tapia, V. (2022) "Resisting the neo-liberal neighbourhood’s straitjacket: relational neighbourhood geographies in Chile and Spain". DOI: 10.3828/tpr.2022.10.
Irazabal, C. "Improving Global Planning Education by Centering the Experience of International Students in U.S. and Canadian Planning Schools". Journal of Planning Education and Research, 42 (3). DOI: 10.1177/0739456X2210936.
Jourdan, D., Lee, C., Newman, G., Zandt, S., Ye, X. (2022). "Expanding the Right to the City Through Regulatory and Financial Planning Tools". Journal of Planning Education and Research. DOI: 10.1177/0739456X221085492
Jourdan, D. (2022). "Engaged Research: Inviting Residents into the Scientific Process". Journal of Planning Education and Research, 42 (3). DOI: 10.1177/0739456X221105048.
Keller, P., Stewart, N. (2022). "Opinion: Time to overhaul Baltimore County’s planning, development review and zoning process". Maryland Matters.
Knaap, G., Lewis, R.,, Chakraborty, A., June-Friesen, K. (2022). "Handbook on Smart Growth : Promise, Principles, and Prospects for Planning". Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN: 9781789904680.
Knaap, G., Lewis, R., Chakraborty, A., June-Friesen, K., Molri, N. (2022). "The Rise and Fall of Smart Growth: An Exploration of the Appearance of Smart Growth and Related Terms in Google Searches, APA Conference Programs, and Selected Newspapers". Journal of Comparative Urban Law and Policy, 29 (1), 336-349.
Lung-Amam, W., Anacker, K., Finio, N. (2022). "Suburbia: The Changing Geography of High-Poverty Neighborhoods in the Washington, DC Metro". Suburbia in the 21st Century: From Dreamscape to Nightmare? ISBN: 9781138185913.
Lung-Amam, W., Alvarez, N., Green (2022). "To Narrow the Racial Wealth Gap, Help Entrepreneurs of Color Own Property". CityLab.
Lung-Amam, W., Alvarez, N. (2022). "We make us safe: Alternatives to policing in a Latinx immigrant inner-ring suburb". Journal of Urban Affairs. DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2022.2130072
Rouse, D. (2022). "The Future of the Comprehensive Plan". Journal of Comparative Urban Law and Policy, 29 (1), 299-326.
2021
Bierbaum, A. (2021). "School Closures and the Contested Unmaking of Philadelphia’s Neighborhoods". Journal of Planning Education and Research, 41(2), 202-216. DOI: 10.1177/0739456X18785018
Bierbaum, A., Rodriguez, A. (2021). "Our public school infrastructure is set up to continue to fail". The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Bierbaum, A., Sunderman, G.L. (2021). "School Desegregation, School Re-zoning, and Growth Management in Two Maryland Counties". Education Policy Analysis Archives, 29, 165. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.29.6111.
Hendricks, M., Meyer, A.M. (2021). "Modeling Long-Term Housing Recovery after Technological Disaster Using a Virtual Audit with Repeated Photography". Journal of Planning Education and Research. DOI: 10.1177/0739456X211002910
Irazabal, C., Golda-Pongratz, K., Metawala, P. (2021). "Revisiting Engels’ ‘housing question’: Work and housing conditions of immigrant platform delivery riders in Barcelona". Human Geography, 14(2):243-257. DOI: 10.1177/19427786211010131
Jourdan D., Lee C., Li W., Newman G., Zandt SV (2021). "The Necessary Role of Planning Practice and Scholarship in the Age of Uncertainty". Journal of Planning Education and Research, 41(2), 134-134. DOI:10.1177/0739456X211008510
Knaap, G., Lung-Amam, W., Wong, B., (2021). "Moderately Priced Dwelling Units: Montgomery County, Maryland’s Model of Inclusionary Housing". Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
Lung-Amam, W. (2021). "Businesses Are Victims of Gentrification, Too". CityLab.
Lung-Amam, W. (2021). "The Next New Deal Must Be for Black Americans, Too". CityLab.
2020
Bierbaum, A. (2020). "Managing shrinkage by “right-sizing” schools: The case of school closures in Philadelphia". Journal of Urban Affairs. DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2020.1712150
Bierbaum, A., Barajas, J., Karner, A., (2020). "Toward Mobility Justice: Linking Transportation and Education Equity in the Context of School Choice". Journal of the American Planning Association. DOI: 10.1080/01944363.2020.1803104
Bierbaum, A., Rusli, A, Welch, B. (2020). "Mindful Mapping: An Integrated Approach to Helping Youth Navigate Neighborhood Change". Routledge Handbook of Designing Public Spaces for Young People. DOI: 10.4324/9780429505614
Dawkins, C. (2020). "The right to housing in an ownership society". Housing and Society, 1–22. DOI: 10.1080/08882746.2020.1722055
Irazábal, C., Jirón, P. (2020) "Latin American smart cities: Between worlding infatuation and crawling provincialising". Urban Studies, 58 (3), 507-534. DOI: 10.1177/004209802094520.
Irazábal, C., Garay-Huamán, A.N. (2020). "Latinos in Kansas City: The Political Economy of Placemaking". Journal of Planning Literature. DOI: 10.1177/0885412220969910
Irazabal, C., Kim, S., Sun, F. (2020). "Planning for Climate Change: Implications of High Temperatures and Extreme Heat for Los Angeles County (CA)". Journal of the American Planning Association, 87(1), 33-34. DOI: 10.1080/01944363.2020.1788415
Knaap, G.J., Engelberg, D., Avin, U., Erdogan, S., Ducca, F., & Welch, T. (2020). Modeling Sustainability Scenarios in the Baltimore–Washington (DC) Region Implications for Methodology and Policy. Journal of the American Planning Association, 250-263. DOI: 10.1080/01944363.2019.1680311.
Hendricks, M. (2020). "Transforming Public Safety and Urban Infrastructure to Mitigate Climate and Public Health Disasters". Social Science Research Council.
2019
Finio, N., Lung-Amam, W., Knaap, G, Dawkins, C., & Knaap, E. (2019). "Metropolitan planning in a vacuum: Lessons on regional equity from Baltimore’s sustainable communities initiative". Journal of Urban Affairs. DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2019.1565822.
Hendricks, M., Gibson, J., Wells, J. (2019). "From engagement to empowerment: How heritage professionals can incorporate participatory methods in disaster recovery to better serve socially vulnerable groups". International Journal of Heritage Studies, 25(6), 596-610.
Lung-Amam, W., Bierbaum, A., Parks, S., Knaap, G., Sunderman, G. & Stamm, L. (2019). "Towards engaged, just, and smart communities: Lessons from West Baltimore". Housing Policy Debate. DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2019.1672082.
Lung-Amam, W., Pendall, R., & Knaap, E. (2019). "Mi casa no es su casa: Transit-induced gentrification and the fight for equitable development in an inner-ring, immigrant suburb". Journal of Planning Education and Research. DOI: 10.1177/0739456X19878248.
Lung-Amam, W. & Dawkins, C. (2019). "The power of participatory story mapping: advancing community development and planning in disadvantaged neighborhoods". Community Development Journal. DOI: 10.1093/cdj/bsy064.
Lung-Amam, W. (2019)." Surviving suburban redevelopment: Resisting the displacement of immigrant-owned small businesses in Wheaton, Maryland". Journal of Urban Affairs. DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2018.1555439.
Lung-Amam, W. & Gade, A. (2019). "Suburbia reimagined: Asian immigration and the form and function of faith-based institutions in Silicon Valley". Journal of Urban Design, 24(5), 738-56.