Program: Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning

Maina Wachira

Hanae Soma

Brianne Brenneman

Pamela Wildstein

Xiaofan Liang

Sophia Hoffacker

Laurie Tabachnick

Apil K C

Eunsoo Hyun

Lauren Chew

Ana Paula Pimentel Walker

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The Value of Participatory Urban Policy Councils: Engaging Actors through Policy Communities, Young Land Occupations and the Failure of Housing Policy in Brazil, Risk Communication and Institutional Racism: The Protective Health Effect of Refugee-Led Community Organizations, Development of Deprived Communities Through Multidisciplinary, Interdisciplinary, and Transdisciplinary Approaches Practicing Social Work in Deprived Communities, Legacy participation and the buried history of racialised spaces: Hypermodern revitalisation in Rio de Janeiro’s port area., Grassroots refugee community organizations: In search of participatory urban governance, The Judicialization of the Planning Process in São Paulo’s Informal Settlements: Enforcing Housing and Environmental Rights through the Courts?, The Competing Social and Environmental Functions of Private Urban Land: The Case of an Informal Land Occupation in São Paulo’s South Periphery, Embodied identity and political participation: Squatters’ engagement in the participatory budget in Brazil, The Conflation of Participatory Budgeting and Public–Private Partnerships in Porto Alegre, Brazil: The Construction of a Working‐Class Mall for Street Hawkers, Brazil: Twenty-First Century Architectures of the Mega-Event, Self-help or public housing? Lessons from co-managed slum upgrading via participatory budget

Richard Norton

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Dynamic coastal shoreland zoning: Adapting fastland zoning for naturally shifting coastal shores, The promise and challenge of integrating multidisciplinary and civically engaged learning. Journal of Planning Education and Research, Reconciling police power prerogatives, public trust interests, and private property rights along Laurentian Great Lakes shores, Using simple, decision-centered, scenario-based planning to improve local coastal management

Martin Murray

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Many Urbanisms: Divergent Trajectories of Global City Building, Taming the Disorderly City: The Spatial Landscape of Johannesburg After Apartheid, City of Extremes: The Spatial Politics of Johannesburg, Commemorating and Forgetting: Challenges for the New South Africa, The Urbanism of Exception: The Dynamics of Global City Building in the Twenty-First Century

Jonathan Levine

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Intermetropolitan Comparison of Transportation Accessibility: Sorting Out Mobility and Proximity in San Francisco and Washington, D.C, Does Accessibility Require Density or Speed? A Comparison of Fast versus Close in Getting Where you Want to Go in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, Apples to Apples: Comparing BRT and Light Rail while Avoiding the “BRT-Lite” Trap, From Mobility to Accessibility: Transforming Urban Transportation and Land-Use Planning, Zoned Out: Regulation, Markets, and Choices in Transportation and Metropolitan Land Use, Urban Transportation and Social Equity: Three Transportation-Planning Paradigms that Impeede Policy Reform, Is Bus versus Rail Investment a Zero-Sum Game?: The Misuse of the Opportunity-Cost Concept, Effects of Automated Transit, Pedestrian, and Bicycling Facilities on Urban Travel Patterns, Overcoming the Last-Mile Problem with Transportation and Land-Use Improvements: An Agent-Based Approach, Project-level accessibility analysis for land-use planning, The Shifting Coalition for Land-Use and Transport Policy Reform in the United States, A Century of Evolution of the Accessibility Concept, Influences on Transit Ridership and Transit Accessibility in US Urban Areas

Larissa Larsen

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Stormwater impact on water quality of rivers subjected to point sources and urbanization-the case of Adds Ababa, Ethiopia, Tackling Uncertainty in Local US Adaptation Planning, Guide for using green infrastructure in urban environments for stormwater management, The Impact of Rapid Urbanization and Public Housing Development on Urban Form and Density in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Using Land to Promote Refugee Self-Reliance in Uganda, ‘Do you have AC?’: Why that could be a life-saving question

Kimberley Kinder

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The Radical Bookstore: Counterspace for Social Movements, Planning by Intermediaries: Making Cities Make Nature in Amsterdam, Technologies of Translocality: Vegetables, Meat, and Dresses in Arab Muslim Detroit, Guerrilla-Style Defensive Architecture in Detroit: A Self-Provisioned Security Strategy in a Neoliberal Space of Disinvestment, The Politics of Urban Water: Changing Waterscapes in Amsterdam, DIY DETROIT: Making Do in a City without Services, Reshaping the gray spaces: resident self-provisioning and urban form in Detroit.

Lesli Hoey

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UN food systems summit leaders must not remain silent on its inadequate rules of engagement with commercial actors, Challenges to Operationalizing Sustainable Diets: Perspectives From Kenya and Vietnam, Incorporating shared measurement in social change initiatives: benefits, challenges, and lessons learned, Stories as indicators: Lessons learned using the Most Significant Change method to evaluate food systems work in Michigan, Feeding Prometheus: An Interdisciplinary Approach for Solving the Global Food Crisis, Development pathways toward “zero hunger”, A Systematic Review of the Conceptualization and Measurement of Sustainable Diets, “Show me the Numbers”: Examining the Dynamics Between Evaluation and Government Performance in Developing Countries, You Can’t Rush the Process: Collective Impact Models of Food Systems Change, “No monuments, no heroes”: How accidental planners established Bolivia’s flagship land reform project through spatial, facilitated, and adaptive strategies, Bringing Practice to the Classroom: Using a Deliberative Learning and Case Study Approach to Teach International Planning, Food sovereignty education across the Americas: multiple origins, converging movements, Reclaiming the Authority to Plan: How the Legacy of Structural Adjustment Affected Bolivia’s Effort to Recentralize Nutrition Planning, Implementing Collective Impact for Food Systems Change: Reflections and Adaptations from Michigan, The Intersection of Planning, Urban Agriculture, and Food Justice: A Review of the Literature, “It’s hard to be strategic when your hair is on fire”: alternative food movement leaders’ motivation and capacity to act, Peri-Urban, but Not Urban, Residence in Bolivia Is Associated with Higher Odds of Co-Occurrence of Overweight and Anemia among Young Children, and of Households with an Overweight Woman and Stunted Child, United Nations Food Systems Summit Critique and Mobilization, Agricultural diversification promotes multiple ecosystem services without compromising yield, Limiting red meat availability in a university food service setting reduces food-related greenhouse gas emissions by one-third, Improving Global Planning Education by Centering the Experience of International Students in U.S. and Canadian Planning Schools

Joe Grengs

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Intermetropolitan Comparison of Transportation Accessibility: Sorting Out Mobility and Proximity in San Francisco and Washington, D.C, Reevaluating Poverty Concentration With Spatial Analysis: Detroit in the 1990s, Community-Based Planning as a Source of Political Change: The Transit Equity Movement of Los Angeles' Bus Riders Union, From Mobility to Accessibility: Transforming Urban Transportation and Land-Use Planning, Job accessibility and the modal mismatch in Detroit, Equity and the Social Distribution of Job Accessibility in Detroit, Nonwork Accessibility as a Social Equity Indicator, Project-level accessibility analysis for land-use planning, The Influence of the Transportation Environment on Driving Reduction and Cessation, How much are built environments changing, and where?: Patterns of change by neighborhood sociodemographic characteristics across seven U.S. metropolitan areas, Private Donations for Public Transit: The Equity Implications of Detroit’s Public–Private Streetcar

Robert Goodspeed

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Urban Informatics and Future Cities, Scenario Planning for Cities and Regions: Managing and Envisioning Uncertain Futures, Community and Urban Places in a Digital World, Lessons for developing a planning support system infrastructure: The case of Southern California's Scenario Planning Model, Participatory E-Planning With Civic Crowdfunding: Donor Background, Involvement, and Social Capital Outcomes, Digital knowledge technologies in planning practice: from black boxes to media for collaborative inquiry, Planning Support Systems and Smart Cities, Innovative planning in the U.S., Engaging communities to build better places, Smart cities: moving beyond urban cybernetics to tackle wicked problems, Sketching and learning: A planning support system field study, Applying design thinking methods to ecosystem management tools: Creating the Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Explorer

Lan Deng

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Year 15 and the Preservation of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Projects: Lessons from Detroit, Michigan, Challenges for Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Projects at Year 15 and Beyond in a Weak Housing Market, the Case of Detroit, Michigan, The Emerging Housing Policy Framework in China, Housing affordability, subsidized lending and cross-city variation in the performance of China’s housing provident fund program, The cost‐effectiveness of the low‐income housing tax credit relative to vouchers: Evidence from six metropolitan areas, Comparing the Effects of Housing Vouchers and Low-Income Housing Tax Credits on Neighborhood Integration and School Quality, Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Developments and Neighborhood Change: A Case Study of Miami-Dade County, Financing Affordable Housing through Compulsory Saving: the Two-decade Experience of Housing Provident Fund in China, Saving Strong Neighborhoods From the Destruction of Mortgage Foreclosures: The Impact of Community-Based Efforts in Detroit, Michigan, Market development, state intervention, and the dynamics of new housing investment in China, Housing production and the structural transformation of China’s real estate development industry

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Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning