Dr. Megan L. Heckert ’00 is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at West Chester University. Her academic focus is urban sustainability initiatives, particularly how they intersect with urban development policy. Recently, Dr. Hec...
Tag: urban development
Latest
Dr. Megan L. Heckert ’00 is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at West Chester University. Her academic focus is urban sustainability initiatives, particularly how they intersect with urban development policy. Recently, Dr. Hec...
Mark Skidmore is a Professor of Economics and Agricultural, Food, And Resource Economics at Michigan State University. He holds the Morris Chair in State and Local Government Finance and Policy and is the co-editor of the Journal of Urban Affairs. He...
Mark Skidmore is a Professor of Economics and Agricultural, Food, And Resource Economics at Michigan State University. He holds the Morris Chair in State and Local Government Finance and Policy and is the co-editor of the Journal of Urban Affairs. He...
The sordid signs of gentrification puncture the fabric of urbanity in a variety of ways. Sometimes it’s obvious—the new luxury apartment building with a snazzy post-industrial-chic facade, a vaguely snappy name, and a café at street level offeri...
The sordid signs of gentrification puncture the fabric of urbanity in a variety of ways. Sometimes it’s obvious—the new luxury apartment building with a snazzy post-industrial-chic facade, a vaguely snappy name, and a café at street level offeri...
The median wealth of a white family is $171,000. Among Black families, it’s just $17,600, and the gap between those two numbers has more than tripled since the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1963. Hidden on page 135 of the 185-page 2017 Tax Bil...
The median wealth of a white family is $171,000. Among Black families, it’s just $17,600, and the gap between those two numbers has more than tripled since the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1963. Hidden on page 135 of the 185-page 2017 Tax Bil...
William Faulkner once cheekily referred to Los Angeles as “the plastic asshole of the world,” and nearly every Urbanist and NUMTOT would agree. The city feels more like six suburbs in search of a city than a bustling metropolis—and that’s by ...
William Faulkner once cheekily referred to Los Angeles as “the plastic asshole of the world,” and nearly every Urbanist and NUMTOT would agree. The city feels more like six suburbs in search of a city than a bustling metropolis—and that’s by ...
Over the past five years, state-owned Turkish Airlines has expanded to connect 40 destinations in Sub-Saharan Africa to Istanbul, with thousands of people from Banjul to N’Djamena travelling daily to Europe’s largest city. While the world foc...
Over the past five years, state-owned Turkish Airlines has expanded to connect 40 destinations in Sub-Saharan Africa to Istanbul, with thousands of people from Banjul to N’Djamena travelling daily to Europe’s largest city. While the world foc...
Photo Author’s Own I have no problem admitting it: I am a small-town kid. I spent my first 22 years in two southern towns: Greensboro, NC (about the size of Providence) and Lexington, VA (very small). My first ever post for the Brown Political...
Photo Author’s Own I have no problem admitting it: I am a small-town kid. I spent my first 22 years in two southern towns: Greensboro, NC (about the size of Providence) and Lexington, VA (very small). My first ever post for the Brown Political...