Written By NCSG Graduate Assistants Finn Meggitt & Cole Shultz Introduction: Drive down Maryland State Route 1 today and you’ll find a very different College Park than from 20 years ago, with a skyline dominated by new multifamily projects shown in Figures 1 and 2. This change is an intentional response to an increasing student […]
Written By Sarah Kamei Hoffman, NCSG Graduate Assistant Click here to read the full report. Adequate public facilities ordinances (APFOs) are a growth management tool that link development approval to the capacity of public facilities, such as schools, roads, and sewer systems. If a facility is found inadequate, development is subject to moratorium or can […]
Written By Nicholas Finio, Associate Director of NCSG Dominique Gebru, Transportation Planner at Washington DC Department of Transportation Katy June-Friesen, Associate Director of Communications & Research for the Small Business Anti-Displacement Network Gerrit-Jan Knaap, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Maryland and PLCC Chair Transit-oriented development (TOD) represents a promising form […]
By Kathryn Howell, Executive Director of the National Center for Smart Growth and Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Studies and Planning at the University of Maryland, Casey Dawkins, Faculty Affiliate with the National Center for Smart Growth and Professor of Urban Studies and Planning and Sophie McManus, Urban and Regional Studies and Planning at […]
By Meghan Z. Gough, Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Studies and Planning at Virginia Commonwealth University, and Kathryn Howell, Executive Director of the National Center for Smart Growth and Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Studies and Planning at the University of Maryland Read the full journal article Before becoming the name of […]
By Lear Burton, Doctoral Student (bio) Click here to read the full paper. Click here to view the summary presentation of the paper. Despite the scale and seriousness of the issue, eviction has been called a “hidden housing problem” since a lack of data diminishes visibility on the issue (Hartman & Robinson 2004). This has […]
By Cole Shultz, NCSG Graduate Assistant Click here to view the interactive map. Introduction Just as in the rest of the country, Maryland is experiencing a housing crisis as home and land prices continue to rise faster than incomes. This is caused by the shortage of homes available to residents at all incomes, particularly those […]
By Nzingha Campbell and Cole Shultz, NCSG Graduate Assistants Click here to read the full paper. Introduction The term “studentification”, coined by Darren P. Smith describes the economic, social, cultural and physical transformations that occur in University towns due to an increasing concentration of students. Unlike traditional gentrification which involves an influx of wealthier residents […]
By Dr. Kathryn Howell Data are often viewed as value-neutral – a way of measuring a social issue. Yet what and how is collected, as well as how data are disseminated reflect existing framing of issues and, by extension, people and places. By extension this also means a reflection of existing power. For example, as […]
In her latest publication, Stories of School Travel: Using a Mobility Justice Framework for Desegregation Research and Policy, NCSG’s Dr. Ariel Bierbaum underscores the importance of “intentional and sustained attention to transportation” to achieve school desegregation priorities. The piece is part of a new essay collection, Integration and Equity 2.0: New and Reinvigorated Approaches to […]
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2025 SBAN Conference on Fostering Resilience
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2024 SBAN Summit on Community Ownership
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