Articles

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Human-capital-centred Regionalism in Economic Development: A Case of Analytics Outpacing Institutions?, Urban Studies (2012)

Drawing on the case of the Delaware Valley Innovation Network, a regional consortium funded under...

 

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Designing an Urban Industrial Future: Philadelphia’s Lower Schuylkill industrial district, Progressive Planning Magazine (2012)
 

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Human capital-centered regionalism in economic development: The case of Philadelphia’s biosciences sector, Penn Institute for Urban Research White Paper Series on Sustainable Urban Development (2011)

The paper, drawing on a case study of a regional "talent development" consortium in the...

 

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Community Benefits Agreements and Local Government: A Review of Recent Evidence, Journal of the American Planning Association (2010)

As community benefits agreements (CBAs) become more common in urban redevelopment, they are generating conceptual...

 

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Chains and Ladders: Exploring the Opportunities for Workforce Development and Poverty Reduction in the Hospital Sector (with Marla Nelson), Economic Development Quarterly (2010)

In this article, the authors investigate the potential of hospitals to offer low- and semiskilled...

 

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Expanding Planning’s Public Sphere: STREET Magazine, Activist Planning and Community Development in Brooklyn, NY 1971-75, Journal of Planning Education and Research (2008)

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, a paradigm of activist planning or critical city...

 

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Dispatches -- Is New Orleans a Shrinking City, Places (2007)
 

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Reading rival union responses to the localization of technical work in the US telecommunications industry, Environment and Planning A (2007)
 

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Building in Good Jobs: Linking Workforce Development with Real Estate-Led Economic Development (with Jeremy Reiss and Margaret Stix), Departmental Papers (City and Regional Planning) (2006)

Municipal governments in the U.S. are increasingly devoting public resources to the redevelopment of abandoned,...

 

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Up-Zoning New York City’s Mixed Use Neighborhoods : Property-Led Economic Development and the Anatomy of a Planning Dilemma, Journal of Planning Education and Research (2005)
 

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Remaking New York City: Can Prosperity Be Shared and Sustainable? (with Brad Lander), Departmental Papers (City and Regional Planning) (2004)

Changes in the organization of global economic activity – in particular, the ascendance of services...

 

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Technology and Urban Labor Markets in the United States, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (2001)
 

Contributions to Books

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Aligning Secondary and Post-Secondary Credentialization with Economic Development Strategy, or If Low Educational Attainment = Poor Metropolitan Competitiveness, what can be done about it? (with Stuart Andreason), .,Preparing Today’s Students for Tomorrow’s Jobs in Metropolitan America (2012)
 

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Community Benefits Agreements in a Value Capture Context, Value Capture and Land Policies (2012)
 

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Keeping Counterpublics Alive in Planning, Searching for the Just City: Debates In Urban Theory and Practice (2009)
 

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Beyond the First Job: career-ladder initiatives in telecommunications and related information technology industries, Communities and Workforce Development (2005)
 

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Building a Workforce Infrastructure, Moving People, Goods and Information in the 21st Century: The Cutting-Edge Infrastructures of Networked Cities (2004)
 

Popular Press

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How the Far West Side Will be Won, The Architect's Newspaper (2004)
 

Presentations

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Teaching planners to deal: the pedagogical value of a (simulated) economic development negotiation, Emerging Voices series (2012)
 

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Urban industrial land and land policy: national context, American Planning Association Annual Conference (2010)