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Housing Policy Must Change in Wake of COVID-19Ingrid Gould Ellen, Katherine O'Regan, and Sophie House …
Capstone Projects
CREATING A SUSTAINABLE INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMThe Alliance for Positive Change (Alliance) helps New Yorkers make promising transitions toward improved health, housing, recovery, and self-sufficiency. Alliance offers a diverse range of individualized professional services. The organization enlisted a …
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Developing coastal adaptation to climate change in the New York City infrastructure-shed: process, approach, tools, and strategiesWhile current rates of sea level rise and associated coastal flooding in the New York City region appear to be manageable by stakeholders responsible for communications, energy, transportation, and water infrastructure, projections for sea level rise and …
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Association of China’s universal two child policy with changes in births and birth related health factors: national, descriptive comparative studyHT Li, M Xue, S Hellerstein, Y Cai, Y Gao, Y Zhang, J Qiao, J Blustein, JM Liu …
News
How should NYC manage the changing use of sidewalks and streetscapes?Errol Louis , Distinguished Visiting Urbanist at NYU Wagner, political anchor of NY1 News, and host of Inside City Hall , moderated a special event titled The Future of Public Space in New York City on November 30, 2021. In partnership with The Century …
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Do Changes in Pension Incentives Affect Retirement? A Longitudinal Study of Subjective Retirement ExpectationsThis paper investigates the responsiveness of individuals’ retirement decisions to forward-looking measures of pension accumulations. In contrast to previous research, we use within-person variation in retirement incentives and are able to control for …
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Changes in ten years of social inequalities in health among elderly Brazilians (1998-2008)OBJECTIVE: To assess the changes in income-related inequalities in health conditions and in the use of health services among elderly Brazilians. METHODS: Representative samples of the Brazilian population aged 60 years and more were analyzed between 1998 …
Capstone Projects
The Opportunity of Transition: Executive Leadership Services as a Framework for ChangeThe Support Center for Nonprofit Management provides services designed to increase the effectiveness of nonprofit leaders, enabling nonprofit organizations to better serve their clients and communities. Among their offerings, they provide Executive …
Capstone Projects
Care Management at New York-Presbyterian: An Opportunity for ChangeCare management is a collaborative process of assessment, planning, facilitation, and advocacy to meet a patient's health needs through communication and available resources to promote quality, cost-effective outcomes. At New York-Presbyterian Hospital, …
Capstone Projects
An Analysis of Changes in the Federal Civilian Workforce 1995-2005The federal government is the largest employer in the US and the Federal civilian workforce alone costs taxpayers more than $129 billion each year. At the request of the Congressional Research Service, this report examines trends in the size and …
Faculty Profile
ChengHe GuanChengHe Guan is an Assistant Professor of Urban Science and Policy at NYU Shanghai, Global Network Assistant Professor, and Ph.D. Advisor at NYU Wagner. He is the founding co-director of the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Urban Design and Urban Science (LOUD) …
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Julia Watt-RosenfeldJulia Watt-Rosenfeld has been a community organizer in New York City for 20 years, working to preserve affordable housing, improve schools, prevent displacement of working class BIPOC New Yorkers and, most recently, pass climate legislation. She has …
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Climate Change Will Increase Local Government Fiscal Stress in the U.S.Elizabeth Gilmore, Carolyn Kousky, and Travis St.Clair …
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Executive Master of Public Administration (EMPA)Learn to navigate complex challenges and lead effectively across multiple contexts—whether managing yourself, guiding teams, driving organizational change, or influencing society as a …
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URPL-GP.2625
Environmental Infrastructure for Sustainable CitiesThis class is about the infrastructure systems that make up the built environment of cities, and that can make cities more or less sustainable and equitable. As humans face concurrent crises of climate change and inequality, most of the earth’s population …Publication
Effective Public Service Communication Networks for Climate Change AdaptationRae Zimmerman …
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Explaining Change in Institutionalized Practices: A Review and Road Map for ResearchD’Aunno, T. …
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How Do Social Change Organizations Shape People's Understanding?How Do Social Change Organizations Shape People's Understanding? …
Doctoral Student
Grace BrangGrace Brang is a doctoral student at NYU Wagner. Her research is centered around public finance and retirement policy. Prior to starting at NYU Wagner, Grace worked as an analyst at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the Department of the …
Capstone Projects
Neighborhood Schools?: Assessing the Changing Relationship Between the Demographics of New York City?s Public Elementary Schools and their Surrounding Neighborhoods Between 1990 and 2000How well do New York City's public elementary schools represent the demographics of their surrounding neighborhoods? Using data from the 1990 and 2000 census and the New York State Department of Education, the Capstone team analyzed the extent to which …
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Reframing Hierarchical Interactions as Negotiations to Promote Change in Health Care SystemsPatricia Satterstrom, Jeff Polzer, and Robert We …
Faculty Profile
Christopher WhongChris Whong is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He works as a technologist building the future of distributed and discoverable data at Qri. ( https://qri.io ). Prior to Qri, he spent 3 …
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Urban Transformation Forum: Mayors Changing Cities | April 18, 2018Urban Transformation Forum: Mayors Changing Cities | April 18, 2018 …