The City After Abandonment

List of Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Lisa K. Bates teaches urban studies and planning at Portland State University She has written numerous pieces that critically evaluate the challenges and opportunities of p ost-Katrina redevelopment i n New O rleans. Th ese include “Overcoming the Challenges of Post-Disaster Planning in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans: Lessons from the ACORN Housing University Collaborative ,” Journal of Planning Education and Research, and “Impediments to Recovery in New Orleans’ Upper and Lower Ninth Ward One Year After Hurricane Katrina,” Disasters. Robert A . B eauregard i s P rofessor o f U rban P lanning i n t he Gr aduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. His research focuses on urbanization in the United States with particular emphasis on declining (shrinking) cities. He is the author of Voices of D ecline : The Postwar Fate of U.S. Cities and When America Became Suburban. Lan Deng is Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan. Her research lies at the intersection of housing policy and e conomics, real e state de velopment a nd finance, a nd local public finance . She is the author of “Comparing the Effects of Housing Vouchers and Low Income Housing Tax Credits on Neighborhood Integration and School Quality,” Journal of P lanning Education and Research, a nd “Th e External Neighborhood Effects of Low-income Housing Tax Credit Projects Built by Th r ee Sectors,” Journal of Urban Affairs. Margaret Dewar is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan. Her research addresses urban economic development, environmental planning, and land use, particularly in cities facing disinvestment a nd p roperty aba ndonment. H er p ublications r elated to v acant and aba ndoned property i nclude “Selling Tax-Reverted L and,” Journal of 374 Contributors the American Planning Association, and “The Role of Community Development Corporations in Brownfield Redevelopment” in Recycling the City, ed. Rosalind Greenstein and Yesim Sungu-Eryilmaz. Renia Ehrenfeucht is Associate Professor in the Planning and Urban Studies Department at University of New Orleans, where she coordinates the MS and PhD in Urban Studies programs. Among her publications, she has coauthored two papers with Marla Nelson about planning efforts in post-Katrina New Orleans: “Planning, Population Loss and Equity in New Orleans after Hurricane K atrina,” Planning P ractice an d Re search and “Planning, Plans and P eople: P rofessional E xpertise, L ocal K nowledge a nd G overnmental Action in Post-Katrina New Orleans,” Cityscape. Andrew Herscher is Associate Professor at the University of Michigan with appointments in the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Department o f Sla vic L anguages a nd L iteratures, a nd De partment o f t he History of Art. His work focuses on the architectural and urban media of political violence, cultural memory, collective identity, and human rights. He is author of Violence Taking Place: The Architecture of the Kosovo Conflict. Christina Kelly is lead planner at the Genesee County Land Bank, Flint, Michigan, where she has worked since 2003. She directs research and planning activities to bring abandoned, Land Bank-owned properties in Flint back to life and works with community partners, consultants, and universities in the region to develop plans, site designs and strategies to position abandoned properties in the city for greening and re-use. She has master’s degrees in urban planning and in natural resources from the University of Michigan. Laura Lawson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She has published numerous works on the significance of urban gardens in community development , most notably as co-author of Greening Cities/Growing Communities : Urban Community Gardens in Seattle, and as author of City Bountiful: A History of Urban-Garden Programs in America, 1890s to Present. Jeffrey S. L owe is Visiting A ssociate Professor of Urban Planning i n t he Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia Contributors 375 University. H is research add resses r acial equity, u rban su stainability a nd community development; the role of philanthropy, universities, and faithbased partnerships in community transformation; and the politics of postdisaster planning. He is author of Rebuilding Communities the Public Trust Way and “Policy Versus Politics: Post-Katrina Lower Income Housing Restoration in Mississippi,” Housing Policy Debate. Abbilyn Miller is a PhD candidate in the...