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Universal Basic Income and Inclusive Capitalism: Consequences for Sustainability
(MDPI, 2019-08-19)
Over the past forty years, income growth for the middle and lower classes has stagnated, while the economy (and with it, economic inequality) has grown significantly. Early automation, the decline of labor unions, changes ...
The Most Frequently Cited Topics in Urban Planning Scholarship
(MDPI, 2020-01-17)
Analyses of faculty citation activity usually focus on counts as a function of author characteristics, such as rank, gender, previous citation levels, and other factors influencing productivity and career path. Citation ...
Green Affordable Housing: Cost-Benefit Analysis for Zoning Incentives
(MDPI, 2019-11-08)
In the year 2017, about 89% of the total energy consumed in the US was produced using non-renewable energy sources, and about 43% of tenant households were cost burdened. Local governments are in a unique position to ...
Assessing systems thinking: A tool to measure complex reasoning through ill-structured problems
(2018-06)
An increasingly important aim of higher education is to develop graduates capable of addressing complex, interdependent problems. Systems thinking is a critical interdisciplinary skill that describes the cognitive flexibility ...
Community Social Polarization and Change: Evidence from Three Recent Studies
(MDPI, 2020-05-29)
This review article analyzes three major recent books (written by Robert Wuthnow, Arlie R. Hochschild, and James and Deborah Fallows, respectively) concerning ongoing political, economic and social change in United ...
Pedestrians and E-Scooters: An Initial Look at E-Scooter Parking and Perceptions by Riders and Non-Riders
(MDPI, 2019-10-11)
Since 2018, pedestrians in many U.S. cities have been sharing sidewalk space with dockless shared e-scooters. The introduction of e-scooters has received pushback from pedestrians. Complaints reported in the media include ...
Land Use Regression models for 60 volatile organic compounds: Comparing Google Point of Interest (POI) and city permit data
(2019-08-10)
Land Use Regression (LUR) models of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) normally focus on land use (e.g., industrial area) or transportation facilities (e.g., roadway); here, we incorporate area sources (e.g., gas stations) ...
Facilitating LGBT Medical, Health and Social Care Content in Higher Education Teaching
(Qualitative Research in Education, 2015-06-28)
Increasingly, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) health care is becoming an important quality assurance feature of primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare in Britain. While acknowledging these very positive ...
Decolonizing Hispanic-Serving Institutions: A Framework for Organizing
(American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE), 2018)
Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), defined as non-profit, degree-granting institutions that enroll 25% or more full-time equivalent undergraduate students, now enroll over 60% of all college students, and confer 60% of ...
Queer Desires and Critical Pedagogies in Higher Education: Reflections on the Transformative Potential of Non-Normative Learning Desires in the Classroom
(Journal of Feminist Scholarship, 2014-08-01)
This article considers what a queer approach might offer in addressing some of the challenges of higher education in the contemporary neoliberal landscape. Despite a rich literature on queer issues in the classroom, most ...