Below are recent publications from the PhD in Urban and Regional Planning and Design Program's faculty, alumni and students.
MAPP IN THE NEWS SCHOOL PUBLICATIONS
2025
Alvarez, N., Andrews, B., & Lung-Amam, W. (2025). "Keeping BIPOC- and Immigrant-Owned Businesses in Place: Policies to Combat Commercial Gentrification and Small Business Displacement." Journal of Planning Literature, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/08854122251323897.
2023
Donahue, A., Simon, M., Brown, M. (2023). "Visual Mixed Messaging: The Role of Signage in Public and Private Governance of New York City Interior Privately Owned Public Spaces." Interdisciplinary Journal of Signage and Wayfinding, 7 (1). DOI: 10.15763/issn.2470-9670.2023.v7.i1.a135
Jones, A., Alves, P., Drakeford, B., Hendricks, M. (2024). "Slow violence to disasters: Exploring racialized topographies and contextualizing social vulnerability to flood and other environmental risks." International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 105. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104409.
Peng, Q., Knaap, G., Finio, N. (2023). "Do Multifamily unit Rents Increase in Response to Light Rail in the Pre-service Period?". International Regional Science Review. DOI: 10.1177/01600176231162563
Peng, Q., Knaap, G. (2023). "When and Where Do Home Values Increase in Response to Planned Light Rail Construction?" Journal of Planning Education and Research. DOI: 10.1177/0739456X22113302
Rosas, H., Sussman, A., Sekely, A., Lavdas, A. (2023). "Using Eye Tracking to Reveal Responses to the Built Environment and Its Constituents." Applied Sciences, 13(21), 12071. DOI: 10.3390/app132112071
Saeed, B., & Iseki, H. (2023). "Does rail transit access affect firm dynamics? Analysis of firm births and closures in Maryland, USA". Journal of Transport and Land Use, 16(1), 389–408. DOI: 10.5198/jtlu.2023.2343
2022
Eom, H., Dawkins, C. (2022). "Decomposing changes in the geography of metropolitan inequality". Journal of Urban Affairs. DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2022.2105707
Lung-Amam, W., Anacker, K., Finio, N. (2022). "Suburbia: The Changing Geography of High-Poverty Neighborhoods in the Washington, DC Metro". Suburbia in the 21st Century: From Dreamscape to Nightmare? ISBN: 9781138185913.
Lung-Amam, W., Alvarez, N., Green, R. (2022). "To Narrow the Racial Wealth Gap, Help Entrepreneurs of Color Own Property". CityLab.
Lung-Amam, W., Alvarez, N., Green, R. (2022). "We make us safe: Alternatives to policing in a Latinx immigrant inner-ring suburb". Journal of Urban Affairs. DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2022.2130072
Mehta, V. (2024). "Public Space notes on why it matters, what we should know, and how to realize its potential." Routledge. ISBN 9781032137025.
2021
Wong, B., Knaap, G., Lung-Amam, W. (2021). "Moderately Priced Dwelling Units: Montgomery County, Maryland’s Model of Inclusionary Housing". Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
2020
Nasta, P. (2020). "Adaptive Reuse: Parking, Zoning, and Shopping Malls. In B. Stiefel (ed.)". The Routledge Companion to Automobile Heritage, Culture, and Preservation (pp. 128-147 ). Routledge.
Younes, H., Zou, Z., Wu, J., & Baiocchi, G. (2020). "Comparing the temporal determinants of dockless scooter-share and station-based bike-share in Washington, D.C." Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 134, 308–320. doi: 10.1016/j.tra.2020.02.021
Zou, Z., Younes, H., Erdoğan, S., & Wu, J. (2020). "Exploratory Analysis of Real-Time E-Scooter Trip Data in Washington, D.C." Transportation Research Record. doi: 10.1177/0361198120919760
2019
Finio, N., Lung-Amam, W., Knaap, G, Dawkins, C., & Knaap, E. (2019). "Metropolitan planning in a vacuum: Lessons on regional equity from Baltimore’s sustainable communities initiative." Journal of Urban Affairs. DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2019.1565822.