Impact
Advisees
Ph.D. in Regional Planning
Current
Nadia Kim (co-advisor with Marc Doussard)
Marwah Malik (co-advisor with Omar Perez-Figueroa)
Jon Petty (co-advisor with Marc Doussard)
Shiva Sheikhfarshi (co-advisor with Fang Fang)
Tooma Zaghloul (co-advisor with Faranak Miraftab)
2022
Natalie Prochaska: At Another Crossroads: Mission vs. Market Lending and Risk Assessment in Chicago Community Development Loan Funds
2021
Sowmya Balachandran: Low-Income Homeownership for Intergenerational Mobility?: The Role of Intermediaries in Risk Mitigation | |
Master of Urban Planning
2025
Shinmyeong Hyeon Spatial accessibility to education under the age of aging and population decline: A case study of public schools in Chicago
Anjana Nair and Aabha Sakhakar Discovering Economic Development Opportunities with Renewable Energy
Luisa Fernandes Vieira da Ponte (co-advisor with Faranak Miraftab): Reframing Urban Sustainability Through the Perspective of Socio-Environmental Insurgent Practice
Zhenpeng Zhang (co-advisor with Fang Fang): Urban Heat Mitigation Effects and Housing Justice
2024
Linda Derhak: Rural Realities: An Environmental Justice Needs Assessment for Rural Illinois
Natalia Fic: (co-advisor with Rolf Pendall) Understanding the Social Relationships Between Community Members and Their Local Governments: A Trauma-Informed Guidebook for Strong Neighborhood Cohesion
Prithvi Hegde: Land Governance for Land-Based Commons in India: Policy Pathways for Peri-Urban Land in Kanataka
Samantha Hendrickson: Clarendon Heights Master Plan
Jenifer Munmun: Fostering Social Sustainability for Bangladeshi Community in Jackson Heights Through Sustainable Planning
Julia de Souza Campos Paiva: Assessing Minha Casa Minha Vida housing policy from a racial justice and equity perspective
Rose Ravi Krishnan: Housing After Hurricane in New Orleans
Trinity Lewis: In Our Own Backyard: Housing Discrimination in Urbana, IL
Priyadarshini Satish: Understanding the Integration of Equity with Transportation Resilience Planning
Shweta: Empowering Legacies: The Rev. Dr. C.T. Vivian Center for Civic & Cultural Engagement
2023
Anagha Devanarayanan: Examining the role of government initiatives and community efforts to drive private investment in Chicago’s Opportunity Zones |
Gaargi Kulkarni: Connecting the dots – Scenario Planning – A Multimodal Transit- Oriented Development- What it means for MSY and the City of Kenner
Lesley Rivera: Diversifying the Housing Stock in Belvidere, Illinois
David Wright: Planning and Permanent Supportive Housing Resource Guide: Fair Housing and Housing First
2022
Arpita Banerjee: A Disaster Planning Integration Toolkit for Rural Communities in Illinois |
Rosario Barrera: The Displacement of Noncitizens Across the City of Chicago
Iain Burns: Shrinking Smart: Confronting Urban Decline in Decatur, IL |
Theresa Dunne: A New Yorker’s Nightmare: Examining the Relationship Between Bedbug Infestations and the Build Environment through New York City Disclosure Data |
Jack Maszka: Bridge to Home: Anti-Poverty Campaign with Cunningham Township |
2021
Yasamin Khoshpour: Housing Insecurities in Champaign County, IL: An Overview on Insecurities Faced by Lowest Income Residents of Champaign, County, Illinois |
Frankie Lewington: Supporting Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Improving Housing Outcomes for American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) Populations |
J.D. McClanahan: A Housing Toolkit for Rural Illinois |
Emma Walters: Considering Uncertain Futures in Shrinking Regions: Inventing, Reinventing, and Responding to Narratives Through Scenario Planning |
Molly Zupan: Brownfields and Concentrated Industrial Land Use in Chicago’s Southwest Side: A Case Study to Support City-Wide Environmental Justice Policy & Cross-Organizational Collaboration |
2020
Anna (An) Weaver: Greater Riverdale, MD Place-Based Initiative |
Caitlin Kelly: Filling the Gaps: A Strategic Report on the State of Homelessness in Champaign County |
Alexis Stewart: Borman Park Revitalization
Will Andresen: Western Illinois River Valley Economic Development Strategy
Hunter Fillers: Housing Strategies for Economic Development in Central Illinois |
Munira Mithaiwala: Water Equity in Chicago: An Exploratory Analysis of social Vulnerability and Water Rates in Northeasstern Illinois |
2019
Tessa Ferraro: East Bayfront Neighborhood Plan |
Gabriel Guevara: Grow Gillespie Action Plan |
Lindsey Miller: Phoenix Rising: Neighborhood Resilience in Atlanta, GA
Manabu Nagai: Exploring the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Projects in Chicago
Sushma Pramod (co-advisor with Dustin Allred): “Affordable” Housing in New York City: A Case of Inclusionary Zoning in Greenpoint-Williamsburg |
2018
Patrick Ang: Homeownership Ideals and Realities in Singapore
Matthew Buesing: The Troubled Building Initiative (TBI): Recovering Chicago in the Face of Segregation, Population Decline, and the Housing Crisis
Alyssa Jaje: Critical Home Repair in West Urbana: The Process of Program Creation in Partnership with Habitat for Humanity of Champaign County |
Susan Martinez: Complicating New York City’s Housing Crisis: Forging Connections Between Displacement and Trauma in the South Bronx
2017
Saumya Jain: Eastgate Redevelopment: Village of Park Forest |
Miriam Keep: Local Responses to Slum Resettlement: The Case of Tamesna Morocco |
Joe Monahan: Hustle City: Minority Entrepreneurship in North St. Louis |
2016
Tala Kammourieh: Economic Impact Study of Affordable Housing Development in Dane County |
Mitch Margolis: Obstacles to Socioeconomic Mobility for Germany’s Turkish Population |
Munguntuya Otgonjargal: Building a National Vision for the Right to Housing in Mongolia |
Alexandre Gomes Pereira: Accounting for Income Mobility in Opportunity: Strategies for Improving Intergenerational Income Mobility for Subsidized Housing Residents in Northeast Ohio |
2015
Carolina Chantrill: Grand Calumet: Can Environmental Governance Explain Environmental Inequalities? |
Annie Contractor: Greenwashing?: Throwing Sustainability Out With the Bathwater: The Displacement of Informal Settlements Through Green Displacement in Fortaleza, Brazil |
Juliana McMillan-Wilhoit: WTF: Water Trouble Forecasting
Edwin Muller: Creative Local Governance & Neighborhood Revitalization: Urban Informality Facilitating Inventive Community Development Strategies in Berlin, Germany and South Florida |
Natalie Prochaska: Bristol Place Neighborhood Plan: Urban Renewal in Post-Kelo Fiscal Policy Space |
Woolack Kim: How do Low-Income Housing Tax Credit projects trigger revitalization in shrinking cities? A case of St. Louis, MO
2014
Christopher Francis and Matthew Yoder: Goreville Village Vision Christopher Francis | Matthew Yoder
Jessica Kursman: Politics of ‘The Other’ in the Global Neighborhood: The Role of Culture, Commodification, and Symbolic Space in Kreuzberg, Berlin |
Christina Aujean Lee: Risky Business: The Foreclosure Crisis, Asian Americans, and Asian American-Serving Community-Based Organizations |
Ethan Tabakin: Stability is the Key to Self-Sufficiency: Creating a Lease-to-Own Program for Baltimore’s Public Housing High Rises |
Tyler Zwagerman: Walking for Life: Addressing Health in Champaign’s Pedestrian Plan |
2013
Abigail (Belford) Lipsker: Unity Is A Weapon Of The Poor: Nairobi Slum Dwellers Cooperatively Save for Housing Developments |
Rachel Phillips: Neighborhood Sustainability: A Case Study of Redevelopment in Bristol Place |
2012
Heidy Persaud (co-advisor with Stacy Harwood): Evaluating The Chicago Housing Authority’s ‘Plan for Transformation’: A Case Study of the Redevelopment of the Julia C. Lathrop Homes |
Committee Member
Master’s Thesis
2020
Shafinaz Sameen,“Refugee Women’s Agency Through Everyday Space Appropriation: An Investigation Into Tohingya Women’s ‘Invisibility’ in the Camps of Bangladesh.” Master of Urban Planning. |
2019
Ashley Adams, “Trends in Contraceptive Use in Tanzania, 1996-2016.” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Master of Science in Community Health. |
Adrienne Cooke, “Stolen Wages, Stolen Lives: A Critical Analysis of the Fair Work Week Policy.” Master of Urban Planning. |
David Mischiu, “Banking on Land: A Critical Review of Land Banking in the United States.” Master of Urban Planning. |
2018
Yiyuan Wang, “Residential Location Choices of Millennials: Evidence From the Urbanized Area of Chicago”, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Master of Urban Planning. |
Sukanya Sharma, “Impact of Short Term Rentals on the Rental Affordability in San Francisco – The Case of AirBnB.” Master of Urban Planning. |
2017
El (Erika) Katherine Lower, “Examining the Social Amplification of Risk in Great Lakes Areas of Concern.” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Master of Science in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences.
2016
Kaitlyn Elise Tiegs Hornik, “Process is Just as Critical as Results: Using Community-Based Participatory Research to Unite Environmental Justice and Sustainability.” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Master of Science in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences. |
2015
Qianyu Li, “A view of the Green Line: a renewal plan for visual experience in Chicago’s South Side stations.” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Master of Landscape Architecture. |
2012
Youngsung Lee, “Are Land Use Planning and Gasoline Price Increase Mutually Supportive in Getting More Transit Riders in the U.S. Suburbanized Areas?,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Master of Urban Planning. |
Dissertation
Current
Vinisha Basnet, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ph.D. in Regional Planning.
Devin Goodson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ph.D. in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences.
Matthew Hiett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ph.D. in Geography.
Michelle Hoereth, University of Illinois at Chicago. Ph.D. in Educational Policy Studies.
Keith Miller, “Impacts of Built Environment and Outdoor Air Quality on Neighborly Social Interaction: An Ethnographic Comparative Multiple Case Study of Compact, Diverse, Walkable Neighborhoods in Los Angeles,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ph.D. in Architecture.
Nina Roberts, “Seeking the Urban Resilience Fix: Balancing Economic Growth, Climate Change, and Social Justice in Flagstaff, Arizona”. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ph.D. in Geography.
2024
Emily Rhoades, “The Risk Factors and Outcomes of Unhoused Families with Child Welfare Investigations”. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ph.D. in Social Work.
Kristy Ulrich Papcuzn, “Giving Attention to Hauntings and Engaging with Ghosts: Portraits of Closed Schools in Chicago”. University of Illinois at Chicago. Ph.D. in Educational Policy Studies.
2022
Ali Momen Heravi, “Toward Healthier Affordable Housing: Innovations in Environmental Design Policy and Practice,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ph.D. in Architecture.
2019
Sergio Contreras Pinto, “Three Essays on Mircoenterprises and Self-Employment,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ph.D. in Regional Planning. |
Yizhou Zhang, “Essays on Driving Factors of Migration: From Regional to Metro Perspectives,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ph.D. in Agricultural and Consumer Economics. |
2018
Andrew McMillan, “Investing in the Post-Foreclosure Housing Market: How Neighborhood Characteristics and Real Estate Actors Affect Recovery.” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ph.D. in Regional Planning.
Rebecca Shakespeare, “‘Everything Around Me Has Skyrocketed:’ Using Qualitative GIS to Understand Middle-Income Renters’ Perceptions of Housing Price, Neighborhood Change, and (im)mobility in New York City,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ph.D. in Geography. | |
2016
Deniz Ay, “Is It Possible to Plan Displacement-Free Urban Renewal?: A Comparative Analysis of the National Urban Renewal Program in Turkey,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ph.D. in Regional Planning. |
Esteban Lopez, “Three Essays Revisiting Housing Issues on New Contexts: Demand for Housing Attributes, Housing Price Indices, and Location Choices Under Displacement,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ph.D. in Regional Planning. | |
2015
Han Bum Lee, “Essays on the Economics of Public Housing Policy,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ph.D. in Agricultural and Consumer Economics.
Claudia Mariella Vincentelo Lupa, “Planning in Cyberenvironments: An Analysis of the Impacts of Open Data in Chicago,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ph.D. in Regional Planning. |
2014
Yushu Zhu, “Building a Community of Our Own: How Can The Built Environment Help?: Neighborhood Communal Space and Community Participation in Chinese Urban Communities,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ph.D. in Architecture.
2013
Mallory Rahe, “Building Prosperous Communities: The Effects of Social Capital, Financial Capital, and Place,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ph.D. in Regional Planning. |