My research interest focuses on the effects of long-term public policy and urban planning in our cities today. I am particularly interested in how different levels of public infrastructure investment historically create unequal patterns of neighborhood-scale economic productivity. Today, climate change informs how we plan for the future, and the associated regional-level urban planning strategies now have the potential to reproduce and exacerbate these long-standing spatial patterns of residential and economic segregation. Because public infrastructure investment is a place-specific local phenomenon, it is critical to understand how urban planning processes move from legislative mandates to actual on-the-ground implementation. To help us understand the spatial nature/orientation of urban inequality, my research will examine the geographic context in which differences in public investment exist.
- BS - Community and Regional Development, University of California, Davis