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Where Youth Live: Effects of Urban Space on EmploymentThis paper synthesises a series of empirical analyses investigating the role of urban space in affecting minority employment outcomes. It broadens the focus beyond transport and the 'friction of space' and expands the data available for spatial research. …
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Urban Distribution Centers: Means to Reducing Freight Vehicle Miles TraveledThe present study examines the model of freight consolidation platforms, and urban distribution centers (UDCs) in particular, as a means to solve the last mile problem of urban freight while reducing vehicle miles traveled and associated environmental …
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In memoriam: Adjunct Assistant Professor for Urban Planning William WheelerWe note with great sadness the passing, on Oct. 27, of William Wheeler, who taught and inspired students at NYU Wagner as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Urban Planning. He was an engaging, enthusiastic, and illuminative colleague and friend. Professor …
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The New Kaldor Facts: Ideas, Institutions, Population, and Human CapitalIn 1961, Nicholas Kaldor highlighted six "stylized" facts to summarize the patterns that economists had discovered in national income accounts and to shape the growth models being developed to explain them. Redoing this exercise today shows just how much …
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Victor VergaraVictor Manuel Vergara Casillo is an urban and regional development expert innovating solution in the identification, design, implementation and evaluation of urban development projects, capacity building programs and urban development strategies in the …
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Contextual Competence: Multiple Manifestations Among Urban AdolescentsThe authors develop and validate multidimensional and contextual profiles of competence among low-income, urban, middle adolescents (N = 560). The assessment of contextual competence was based on youth self-reports of involvement, performance, and …
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National Journal talks with Professor Ingrid Gould Ellen about Housing Subsidies – and Airbnb… says Professor Ellen, faculty director of the NYU Furman Center For Real Estate and Urban Policy, a leading …
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Sarah Stefanski… at NYU I worked as a graduate research assistant at NYU Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, which gave me …
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State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods, 2012… is faring in the aftermath of the crisis. In 2001, the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy released the … children. The report serves as a medium through which the Furman Center can investigate new data, describe and …
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Sustaining Urban Networks: The Social Diffusion of Large Technical SystemsTelecommunications, transportation, energy and water supply networks have gained crucial importance in the functioning of modern social systems over the past 100 to 150 years. Sustaining Urban Networks studies the development of these networks and the …
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Red Hook EcoDistrict: The Next Wave of Sustainable Urban DevelopmentEnterprise Community Partners (ECP) is a nonprofit organization that has been a passionate and forthright voice, locally and nationally, in the advocacy of issues important to the affordable housing community. ECP is also a national leader in bringing the …
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StakeholdersThe key player in the federal government, OHRP is housed within the Department of Health and Human Services. OHRP makes policy, provides guidance, regulates, enforces, and provides educational outreach with respect to human subjects research and IRB …
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Affordable Housing Monitor… agencies, real estate agencies/brokers, and the The Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy at New York …
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Mitra PanahipourMitra Panahipour works at the intersection of data and research strategy, cultural studies, and user experience. With a background in anthropology-archaeology, she conducts mixed-method studies, particularly focusing on the dynamics of interactions …
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Forum Explores Financial Squeeze Facing Nonprofit Human-Services SectorMore than 100 leaders of nonprofit organizations, along with state and city social services officials, gathered at NYU Wagner on Feb. 24 for the release of an exhaustive report calling for urgent reforms to shore up the nonprofit human-services sector in …
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Moving NYC: Travel Behavior and Policy in New York CityFrom the non-stop subway ride to the “infamed” jaywalking, from the well-acclaimed Citi bike to delivery on almost anything, from the iconic yellow cab to the fist fight over a parking spot, from the Chinatown bus to congestion pricing, this course …Faculty Profile
Lin LinDr. Lin Lin is an exchange research scholar at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University, and an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Design at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China. She is also an …
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Using cross-curricular, problem-based learning to promote understanding of poverty in urban communitiesThis article describes the use of problem-based learning to teach students about the scope and consequences of urban poverty through an innovative cross-curricular project. We illustrate the process, goals, and tasks of the Community Assessment Project, …
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The State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods in 2013 … in 2013 report , published annually by the NYU Furman Center, provides a compendium of data and analysis … The report combines timely and expert analysis of NYU Furman Center researchers with data transparency. It is …
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"We Can’t Stop Neighborhoods from Changing"… Ingrid Gould Ellen, Faculty Director of the NYU Furman Center, and Paulette Goddard Professor of Urban Policy … of the U.S., including New York, where, according to a Furman report in May 2016, more than one in four of the … and largely minority urban neighborhoods. In the Furman Center report of last May, we focused on growth in …
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Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities: The Action Plan from the Department of Health and Human ServicesThe Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently unveiled the most comprehensive federal commitment yet to reducing racial and ethnic health disparities. The 2011 HHS Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities not only responds …
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Survival and Death in New Orleans: An Empirical Look at the Human Impact of KatrinaHurricane Katrina has been interpreted as both a “metaphor” for the racial inequality that characterizes urban America and as a purely “natural” disaster that happened to strike a predominantly Black city. To resolve these conflicting interpretations, the …
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Prof. Rae Zimmerman chosen to participate in Urban Infrastructure and Extreme Weather Related Events StudyRae Zimmerman, Professor of Planning and Public Administration at NYU Wagner, has been selected to participate in a multi-disciplinary team of about 50 researchers from 15 universities plus other institutions. The team, led by Arizona State University, …