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Hey guys. So I was thinking of ways to get the group more active and involved and such, and this came up, so I'd thought I'd give it a try. If it fails, it was someone elses idea.
So, every Monday I will pose a question to the group. By answering, hopefully we, as a group, can find common interests and become friends and make the community stronger. Think it can't happen? Hannibal and I text each other nearly every day away from GIO. Its completely possible, but unfortunately some effort is required.
You guys can answer the question in the thread it is posted in, or even turn it into a blog if you are so inclined. Remember, the more you elaborate on your response, the more you let us know about yourself.
You say you have a question you'd like to ask the group? Head to the Suggestion Box. Its linked to my phone, so whenever anyone posts there, I'll see it.
For the initial trial run of this idea, I thought I'd stepa away from the world of video games. Everyone listens to music, so the question(s) is...
What is your favorite genre of music? What is your band/singer/rapper/group of choice? What's your favorite album/record?
"I'm a dude, playin' a dude, disguised as anotha dude! You a dude that don't know what dude he is!" -Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder
Good idea Jolt!
Let's see, my preferred genre of music is classic rock. I used to really love all music, especially classic rock. Strangely, when I quit drinking and doing drugs more than 7 years ago, I lost interest in most music, it wasn't until the past year and a half that my tastes returned. I still like all the same crazy 60's and 70's songs though!
Favorite band is The Beatles, have always loved them and of course have many close second favorites. Hell, my spawn is named after Bob Dylan. My favorite Beatles Album, though cliche, is definitely Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. I can listen to that non stop several times through and not get tired of it, though not necessarily the album that has all my favorite Beatles Songs. SPLHCB is the rare album that has absolutely no songs I skip.
"You know nothing Jon Snow"
This is actually a pretty good idea. I don't know if it will catch on though, but I like it. (You and Hannibal actually TXT each other!? wow. I don't even do that with my friends I've met in real life) Anyway...
Genre-Country. I was born a farmer and it's stuck with me. Band-Little Big Town. They are the best group out there, and they cover non-country songs. Their version of Moves Like Jagger is way better than Maroon 5's. I have no favorite record. I like them all. But if I had to it would be one of LBT's album.
Thanks guys. And yes, I can now insult him twice as much in half the time. Its glorious!
I guess I should give this a go, eh?
I literally can listen to anything. If I had to pick, it would be rock. Although, I am a huge Prince fan, and I love the old motown records. But I listen to rock music when I am gaming. Metallica, Godsmack, Slipknot... all are good times. I can go to 50 Cent and Ludacris if I go on a shooting spree in GTA or something though.
As for record, it has to be The Black Album by Metallica. Every song on it is splendid. Its good for rocking out or chilling.
Mojo, you have the same favorite album as my father. That's creepy. And my daughter is named after my wifes favorite singer, Jewel.
For me, it's definitely classic rock. The Eagles are my favorite band (by a lot). Don Henley is my favorite singer, and The End of the Innocence is my favorite album, and song.
Ha! I stole my dads Eagles Greatest Hits CD before I moved out. Good stuff is on that... matter of fact, its in the cd player of my van.
Well, I guess I should answer this. I'm a big Disney fan, so all the Disney music from the movies are stuff I listen to. I guess I've started to become a hipster, cause I don't like today's music. If I do listen to the music, it's from Youtubers who do covers and/or parodies on it. I also listen to a some Christian music too. I guess my favorite album is Change of Scenery by Guest. It's a little bit rock, but still cool. You guys should check out ThePianoGuys and Lindsey Stirling (lindseystomp) on YouTube. Great musicians of great songs.
This is such a tricky question for me, not only because my music tastes are so fluid but it honestly depends on the day and week etc. I'll do the best I can. My favorite genre fluctuates the most: it can be Rock (favorite: anything with Chris Cornell. Than man makes me swoon), Country (Brad Paisley or Keith Urban), Hip Hop (Travie McCoy, Kanye West), or Pop (Katy Perry, Patrick Stump). Most common is probably "Indie Rock." My favorite guy right now is Lazlo Bane (he sings the theme song for Scrubs).
My favorite album, however, would probably have to be The Secret War by Ace Enders. Sure it's only an 8 song EP/demo/acoustic album, but that man covers everything with it. I have never skipped a song listening to it, and I've had it for five years or so.
Wow... we are all over the place...
My favorite band or group fluctuates between Zepplin (I've got the Swan Song angel tatooed on my back) Jefferson Airplane (Grace Slick's voice was/is amazing), and Bowie. They all have such a catalogue that I can't choose one.
My musical interests fall all over the place though as I really like Tribe Called Quest, Camp Lo, and Outcast if in the mood for something different.
My favorite album would be Wilco and Billy Bragg's Mermaid Avenue. Between their folksy rock and Bragg's voice, every song has something to offer. 'Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key' and 'Ingrid Bergman' in particular are phenominal.
My favorite genre would have to be rock. But I will listen to mostly anything besides rap and country. My favorite rock band is Alter Bridge. Everyone except the lead singer is a former member of Creed. And some of you may know the lead singer Myles Kennedy from his collaboration album with Slash recently. My favorite album of theirs would be AB III. It's their third and best album to date with a mix of hard rock and soft rock that I can't get enough of. My favorite two songs on it would have to be "Slip to the Void" and "Life must go on".
I would have never pegged you for a Zepplin guy Asha.
Despite their bashing, I always liked Creed. Their lead singer reminds me of the guy in Underworld that gets the vampire and werewolf mixture.
Favorite Genre: Rock n Roll
Favorite Band: Toss up between Pink Floyd and Nirvana (depends on the mood I'm in)
Favorite Album: Toss up between Layla and other assorted love songs, Dark Side of the Moon and Nevermind
Favorite Song: everyone's secret guilt pleasure Call Me Maybe
Ha! Hilarious.
I heart me some Pink Floyd.
Hahaha! Guilty pleasure songs! Thank the Lord Jolt did not ask for that, I would hate to tell everybody that I listen to Ke$ha!
I must say, my fellow GIOers have some pretty good taste in Music, though Zeppelin>Floyd(and any band except Beatles).


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All the World's a Stage: So you want to be a blood elf {WoW}
Dec 26th 2008 1:53AM I may be biased, because you know, I actually like the Blood Elves, not like majority of the righteous people out there, but anyway, it is likely that you are, too, Sean, because you obviously don't like them.
And the one thing pissed me off in your "wonderful materials" is that you called them "The most petty, selfish race in WoW", which I find to be horribly insulting and judgemental. As a writer writing out instruction to RP a race, at least I would expect you to be holding back you obvious disgust for the that particular race a little and trying to be less judgemental, but obviously, it's just me that thinking it it a virtue for a PR material writer.


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Disagree. It's Claudia Mountfort.
Never saw an issue of the magazine so that name is one I'm not at all familar with. Too bad McKean never made the cover of the magazine. Or did she? She looked rather massive in Salvador. Or has such been noted in a previous thread?


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Yes, I know heimer is generally considered a bad champion, but after just trying him out in unranked I feel theirs some serious power hiding here. I had his turrets doing(combined) 190-200 damage PER shot. Shooting twice a second..that damage is ridiculous. I want to learn to play this champion a bit more seriously. Any tips?
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Max w first. Play the game at a slow pace. Be very patient and cast w any time the enemy has only two creeps remaining. Also, avoid farming with your cannons, he is good at last hitting with his high projectile speed. Good luck.
Play someone else.
Start with W, then Q. Put 1 point into E when you can to protect from ganks with the stun. Always level R>W>Q>E. His poke with rockets is amazing so get a hit with it whenever you can. Place turrets on opposite sides of the lane so an aoe attack can''t take out both at once. E reveals through the fog of war, so if someone flashes over a wall throw E then W right after. R is situational. Use it if you have to recall and keep your turrets up for farm, in team fights for the 5 rockets, or to save yourself from a gank. If you do get ganked and flash is down, don't run. You're slow as hell. Hide between your turrets to keep the damage up. Bam. You learned everything about heimerdinger in 30 seconds.


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Earlier, we mentioned that there were rumors floating that the Florida Gators would be interested in Kansas City offensive coordinator Charlie Weis.
This speculation stemmed from the fact that Pat Dooley of the Gainesville Sun mentioned the rumor on his radio show, and Chris Mortensen of ESPN reported the possibility on Sunday.
Now Mort's reporting the possibility of Weis heading to Gainesville to join Will Muschamp's coaching staff is "likely" and that Muschamp, who wants a pro-style offensive coordinator for his system, contacted the Chiefs for permission to speak with Weis.
Todd Haley was asked about the rumors at his press conference on Friday.
"It would be news to me," Haley said.
But, as Kent Babb of the Kansas City Star points out, Haley certainly didn't deny any of the rumors either.
It seems, then, fairly likely that this is a move that will happen (or at least come close to happening), although Weis isn't expected to bounce from KC until after the Chiefs are done in the playoffs.
For those wondering why Weis would make such a move -- common sense dictates that moving as an OC in the NFL to an OC in college isn't even a lateral jump -- well, it would seem that perhaps Weis and Haley weren't working together perfectly and perhaps Weis sensed that the organization was taking a strong look at Josh McDaniels to replace him. McDaniels, after all, got the most out of Cassel when he ran the Patriots offense in 2008.
But then folks will also remember that McDaniels and Haley had a handshake incident this year, so perhaps that's not the greatest marriage either. Not to mention with the Chiefs coming off an AFC West championship, they'd be "messing with happy," and that's almost never smart.
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6 weeks 6 days ago | Boys are stupid |
All of the Yuengling Light Lager. |
7 weeks 3 days ago | FIRE RICH ROD |
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I have two free ones too! Would anyone like them? |
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9 weeks 5 days ago | I thought real friends would |
I thought real friends would have stayed. |
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E-mail them to Mongoose below! |
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10 weeks 4 days ago | I'm so over the "Michigan Man" BS. |
Why are you presuming that only someone who "grew up in Michigan" and has a history of obessing over the OSU rivalry/knew Bo would be successful here? I think that's a damaging lens from which to view anything, most certainly a coaching search. |
10 weeks 4 days ago | I don't like being mad at you |
I don't like being mad at you because I LOVE your avi, but why are you so angry? Why is it so hard to give Coach Rod credit? (Not being fiesty, seriously asking.) |
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Section 215, Row 32. And yes, I think they will accomodate you! If you give me your e-mail address I'll send them right over. Also, I'm sorry about your heel! Get well soon! |
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No /s at all. Sad state of affairs, my friend. |
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10 weeks 4 days ago | Dude, NO ONE'S a good fit for |
Dude, NO ONE'S a good fit for Michigan. That's the whole issue. It's not them, it's us. |
10 weeks 4 days ago | As the Chief RR Supporter of |
As the Chief RR Supporter of this fanbase and probably country, I hope Coach doesn't even think about going to Florida. They're crazy there--he'll never receive the institutional support (ie patience) in Gainesville that he's getting in Tucson. Gainesville is too much like Ann Arbor in that regard. As a friend of mine said today, if Coach goes 9-3 and gets to a Rose Bowl, they'll build a statute for him at Arizona. And for those who think that money could be a factor, Coach stands to get a hefty sum if he stays in Tucson for eight years: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2083140-rich-rodriguezs-unorthodox-ne... PS, can we please stop diminshing his wins? I'll never understand why Michigan fans continue to go out of their way to put him down. Leave him alone. |
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I have two free ones for tonight too! I have class and can't go. :( Does anyone want them??? No one on Twitter could use them. |
13 weeks 1 day ago | THANK YOU. |
13 weeks 1 day ago | Why are some of you STILL |
Why are some of you STILL trying to FIRE RICH ROD? Let him go. If you don't want to support him, fine. But why exert energy toward rooting against him? Why is that even a thing? |
13 weeks 1 day ago | I THOUGHT REAL FRIENDS WOULD HAVE STAYED |
Per Three and Out, Bill Stewart made a play for almost all of Coach Rod's assistants. When Stewart offered Casteel $275,000 "and more importantly, a two-year contract", it looked great to Casteel compared to Michigan's $265,000 and no contract. Bacon goes on to quote Mike Prrish (who's a really great guy, FWIW): "If they don't hire Stewart, Jeff Casteel comes to Michigan." (Three and Out, p. 89) Meanwhile, in Tucson, Scooby Wright (sophomore linebacker) a Rivals two-star recruit who had ZERO scholarship offers when Arizona offered him is currently second in the Pac-12 in tackles and tackles for a loss. He's also third in sacks. He just won Pac-12 player of the week and NATIONAL defensive player of the week. Be angry if you want, but the future of Arizona Football is bright. Rich Rod can flat out coach. |
13 weeks 4 days ago | Y'all should've never doubted |
Y'all should've never doubted him/made him feel like he had to leave in the first place. WD is a good dude and he's family-we have enough people against us on the outside to resort to attacking our own. |
16 weeks 3 days ago | I thought real friends would have stayed... |
As probably the most vocal supporter of Coach Rod both while he was here and especially since he's left, I couldn't be happier for him. I joke that I will probably get my Michigan Football season tickets revoked one day for supporting Coach so enthusiastically. I just feel like his success is scriptural, almost--it feels like a table is being prepared for him in front of his enemies and I couldn't be happier for him. I know I've shared this story before, but a few years ago when I was in Arizona for work I was able to visit him on the Thursday before the Oklahoma State game. Huge, important game, right? I thought I would be able to maybe shake his hand and that's it. I would've been so grateful for just that opportunity. The warmth with which Coach received me was just incredible--he said, "Wanna chat for a bit? Let's have a seat." And so we sat for 15 or 20 minutes and chatted away. We even called my best friend Aimee who has supported Coach through thick and thin just as I have. He chatted her up for a few minutes, too. "Hi Aimee, this is Coach Rod!" (I'll never, ever forget those words.) The first thing I did when I met Coach was apologize on behalf of the program, the university and the entire state of Michigan. Also, I immediately started crying. (I told Coach this was like other people meeting Leonardo DiCaprio lolol). But when I told him how sorry I am for how our fanbase treated him, he replied, "Oh, that's alright Jenny. That's long gone. Things are much better now. I really like it here in Arizona and they're giving me plenty of time." I love Coach because he always wears his heart on his sleeve. I don't think he would know how to operate in coach-speak if his life depended on it. He's just REAL. Everything about him. And that resonates deeply with me because I'm the same way--super passionate yet widely misunderstood. I get a lot of flack (especially on Twitter) about being disloyal to Michigan for supporting Arizona, but I guess I don't understand how the two are mutually exclusive. I quote Brian's Rich Rod farwell column title ALL the time and occasionally shout it to Brian when I see him at games. ("I THOUGHT REAL FRIENDS WOULD HAVE STAYED!" Sorry, Brian.) After Coach's Oregon win last week, Michigan fans were STILL angry, still tweeting out mean things about Coach and about how Oregon "really isn't that good anyway", calling Coach supporters "history revisionists". I guess I don't understand why Michigan fans feel the need to go out of their way to convince themselves and others that Coach Rod is an awful coach and worse, an awful person. You wanted a new coach and you got one. Leave Coach Rod alone. I don't understand the need to actively root against someone that shouldn't matter to you. I guess my point is this--I hope Coach balls all the way out. If he ends up at a great bowl game this season, I'll probably go. When (not if) he makes the Rose Bowl, I will be there, in my Arizona gear, despite my Michigan degree and block M tattoo, because that's how strongly I feel about supporting Coach. I supported him at 3-9 and when it appeared that every other Michigan fan (besides Aimee and me!) had walked out, and I'll support him at Arizona and wherever else he may go. Bear Down and Go Blue. |


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The Republican base is throwing the fear of God into the party establishment. This is a good thing, given what that establishment has spent the last ten years doing. Even an occasional error such as Ms. O'Donnell is worth it in the longer view (and yes, I think that O'Donnell is an error).
A Republican Party that is brought closer to the American people can only be stronger, though it could be hard on Senator McConnell and his ilk.
Where were the Tea Partiers during Bush II? They were being "represented" by a Republican Party that was making moves that they profoundly disagreed with. That's why they're not worried about throwing out incumbent Republicans. They don't trust them any more than they trust the Democrats.
If the days of voting for someone just because they carried an "R" or "D" label are over, that's a good thing, isn't it?
Don't pay your taxes, lie about your college education, and stop paying the mortgage on your house. This is the requirement to run for Senator on the Tea Party ticket.
Is the moral state of our country so bad that we rush to the polls to vote for incredibly unqualified people that do not obey our laws and have ultra extreme views?
It's no wonder India and China are outpacing us. We are our own worst enemy.
@parrosenok - the fate of the tea party candidates will often depend on the Democrat they're facing.
It is one thing to let the incumbent know you're displeased with them, it is another when looking down the road to think what this candidate can do for you (or to you as the case may be) if given the power.
I predict we'll get tea party senators, but I'd be surprised to see a tea party mayor or governor. Just too much power in many of those roles.
Katie10 is disillusioned if she believes the current state of economic and governmental decline is sooley because of progressive policies the past 40 years. The marker is 1981 when supply side free enterprise (AKA Reaganomics) became the norm under the so called Reagan Revolution. Reganomics has been tried twice under eight years of Reagan and eight years of Bush II and the results are clear: frequent costly financial crises, stagnant wages for average workers versus exponential growth of compensation for CEO's resulting in severe income inequality not seen since The Great Depression, unfunded unnecessary wars, tax cuts favoring the weathiest at war time, inability for political compromise because of ideology, a growing underclass, shrinking middle class, and so on. There's plenty to be angry about and one wonders where all the teabaggers were during the George W. Bush administration when his wrecking crew was in full force?
So, Katie, if you're going to kick out all the liberals and all the entrenched right-wingers, what the heck are you going to elect? Have you ever read the history of Germany in the 1930s?
This woman is clearly a Sarah Palin clone. I thought the lunatic far-right nutters and fundamentalists who are currently in the ascendancy were against such things as cloning, stem-cell research, family planning, contraception, safe abortion, the teaching of real science in schools, and filthy subversive liberal pinko commie radical ideas such as democracy and human rights.
There is a revolution going on in the US. These are not all Tea Party People. We are hearing the voice of mainstream America speaking out against government overreach into our lives, loss of freedom, Obama's agenda and too much spending by incumbents on both sides. Liberals do not know what to do with this phenomenon and entrenched Republicans are amazed at just how angry most of the country is. November will make history I think, and change the progressive agenda that has infested this country for 40 years.
The article defies its own thesis:
It first asks "Has the Grand Old Party moved so far right that voters will reject it in the elections in November?"
and then describes how instead of RINO Delaware voters preferred someone a lot more conservative. Given that anti-incumbent mood is present also among the moderates and even the Democrats, the Democratic party prospectives in November are grim.
I would have thought this pretty much guarantees the election of a Democrat from Delaware in November. Independent voters are very unlikely to vote for extremists from the far right are they? As such, they will move to the 'moderate left'.
Not the brightest move by the Republicans it seems to me, but I'll have to confess that I'm not a USA resident and American political logic absolutely mystifies me at times.
Your bizarre logic works only if she acts the same as the present gang in Congress, spending more and taxing more.
Americans are, quite wisely, firing any and all incumbents who they are not 99% certain about. And with good reason.
This is the swiftest way to clean up the mess which is a government comprised of so many elected individuals who have shown a reckless disregard for the well being of the citizens.
Americans are using the only "rapid deployment" weapon which their democracy gives them -- their "firing" votes against incumbents -- to put their entire government on notice that it has committed multiple and egregious firing offenses.
Americans should keep firing incumbents until every legislator, executive office holder and member of the judiciary, at federal, state and local levels, are so fearing for their jobs, that they start doing their jobs, and demonstrate that they know who is in charge:
the American people.
Firing errant politicians is the best deterrent to future abuses of Americans by its government. It also makes room for people who may still carry American ideals to serve.
Not a bad restaffing strategy if you think about it.
Christine O'Donnell has campaigned for a balanced budget. She has campaigned against masturbation. Congress enacts taxes on alcohol to discourage drinking. If she is elected, will Ms. O'Donnell propose a tax on masturbation?
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Revolutionary Tea Parties in every state, comprised of culturally and economically conservative majorities, are democratically purging the Neocon and Neolib plutocrats from their Congress.
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GWIPP Research: Hal Wolman
This page features research funded through GWIPP and performed by Hal Wolman.
Hal Wolman is a professor in the Department of Political Science and the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration at GW. He is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, and a member of the MacArthur Foundation's Building Resilient Regions network.
Dr. Wolman's fields of interest include urban and metropolitan policy and politics, local and regional economic development, state and local fiscal policy, and comparative urban policy and politics. Much of his work is interdisciplinary, drawing upon the fields of political science, policy analysis, and economics. He teaches Urban Problems and Policy Analysis, Urban Politics, and Politics and the Policy Process.
Professor Wolman holds a Ph.D in Political Science from the University of Michigan and a Master's in Urban Planning from M.I.T. Prior to coming to GW, Dr. Wolman was Director of the Policy Sciences graduate program at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County from 1997-2000. Before that, he was a professor of Political Science and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University. He also served as a Research Associate for the Urban Institute's Public Finance Program from 1978-1984.
Dr. Wolman also has experience in the world of public affairs and policy making, both as staff director of the House Subcommittee on the Cities and as a legislative assistant to Senator Adlai E. Stevenson. He was also Director of Research for the White House conference on Balanced Growth and Economic Development. He recently served as the staff consultant to the National Research Council's Committee on the Future of American Cities.
Professor Wolman's authored and edited books include Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects (Brookings Institution, 2008) Governance and Opportunity in Metropolitan Areas (National Academy Press, 1999), Theories of Urban Politics (Sage Publications, 1995), Urban Politics and Policy: A Comparative Approach (Basil Blackwell, 1992), and Comparing Housing Systems: Housing Performance and Housing Policy in the U.S. and Britain (Oxford University Press, 1992). Other research and publications explore regional economic resilience, the determinants of urban and regional economic growth, national urban policy, comparative urban policy and politics, local governments and fiscal autonomy, policy transfer among governments, the effect of population change on urban representation in Congress, city-suburban disparities in income and their causes, the relationship of cities to suburbs, the effect of mayoral change on public policy, and changing intergovernmental relations; as well as specific problems and policies in the areas of urban economic development, urban fiscal problems, housing and community development, urban labor markets, welfare, and transportation.
Title: National Grants System and Cities During the Great Recessions: Drawing Lessons from a Cross-National Analysis
Funding: German Marshall Fund of the United States
Researcher(s): Hal Wolman
Start Date: June 2012
Status: Current
Category: International and Comparative Policy, State and Local Fiscal Policy
Summary: The project examines the ways in which national grant systems have met the needs of city governments in the United States and developed Western nations during the Great Recession. It tracks changes in national and intermediate level grants to local governments over the course of the recession in OECD countries and focuses particularly on national grant systems and their effects on local governments in the US, Italy, Spain, Germany, the UK, and Canada. The comparison will provide useful and important lessons to national governments about the effects of grant systems on city governments.
Title: Regional Economic Resilience (click for more on the Building Resilient Region Network)
Funding: MacArthur Foundation (through the University of California-Berkeley)
Researcher(s): Hal Wolman, Pat Atkins, Sarah Ficenec, and Travis St. Clair
Start Date: June 2008
Status: Current
Category: Economic and Industrial Development Policy Studies, Urban Policy, Economic and Industrial Policy
Summary: As part of the MacArthur Foundation's project on regional resilience, the primary goals of our study are to identify through rigorous quantitative analysis economically resilient and economically non-resilient regions, to explore the differences between the two (why are some resilient and others not), and to come to some conclusions about the way in which regional economies can become more resilient. In particular we are examining whether regions that have experienced negative economic shocks recover and, if so, how. We are also exploring through a set of intensive case studies the role of economic agency (private sector decision making in markets, hierarchies, and networks) and public policy, planning, and politics, in that process.
"Chronically-Distressed Metropolitan Area Economies," Travis St. Clair, Howard Wial (Brookings Institution), and Hal Wolman, April 2012. Paper presented at the annual meeting of The Urban Affairs Association, April 2012.
"Exploring Regional Economic Resilience." Ned Hill (Cleveland State University), Howard Wial (Brookings Institution), and Hal Wolman, April 2007. Paper presented at the annual meeting of The Urban Affairs Association, April 2008.
Working Paper 040 - Economic Shocks and Regional Economic Resilience. Edward Hill, Travis St. Clair, Howard Wial, Hal Wolman, Pat Atkins, Pamela Blumenthal, Sarah Ficenec, Alec Friedhoff, for Brookings, George Washington University, Urban Institute, Building Resilient Region Project conference on Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects: Building Resilient Regions. Washington, DC, May 20-21, 2010.
Working Paper 043- Building Regional Economic Resilience: What Can We Learn from Other Fields. Sarah V. Ficenec. George Washington Institute of Public Policy (GWIPP). Draft December, 2010.
Working Paper 045- Building Economic Development Networks in Detroit: A Comparison of Methods of Social Network Analysis. Sarah Ficenec. George Washington Institute of Public Policy (GWIPP). Draft April, 2010.
Title: Significant Features of the Property Tax
Researcher(s): Charlotte Kirschner, Pat Atkins, Hal Wolman, Garry Young, Kristin Broughton, Dan Coogan, Matt Darst, Dillon Kiel, Lisa Lowry, Daniel Ramsey
Funding: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Start Date: June 2006
Status: Current
Category: Economic and Industrial Development Policy
Summary: This multi-year undertaking between the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and GWIPP aims to provide a rich compendium of data and information for policymakers, practitioners, elected officials, researchers, and journalists on the local property tax in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. It is inspired by and meant to replace, at least partially, the Significant Features of Fiscal Federalism report that the US Advisory Commission of Intergovernmental Relations (ACIR) published annually before the Commission was disbanded in 1996. The online database makes it easy to compare features of the property tax across states or to learn about the property tax in detail for one or more specific states. Access to the database is available at no cost at: http://www.lincolninst.edu/subcenters/significant-features-property-tax/. The database currently provides features of the property tax as they were in calendar year 2006. These data will be updated annually, with 2007 and 2008 data expected to be released during the spring and summer 2010.
GWIPP and Lincoln have held two property tax roundtables during the course of the project. The first round table brought property tax scholars from across the country to Washington, DC in October 2007 to discuss the erosion of the property tax base. The second roundtable, held in February 2009, examined the impacts of changes in the property tax on local autonomy. GWIPP staff presented research papers at both roundtables. An edited volume from the first roundtable, "Erosion of the Property Tax Base: Trends, Causes, and Consequences," was published in May 2009 and is available at http://www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/1570_erosion-property-tax-base. The edited volume from the second roundtable is forthcoming.
Erosion of the Property Tax Base: Trends, Causes, and Consequences. Nancy Y. Augustine, Michael Bell, David Brunori, and Joan M. Youngman, 2009.
The Property Tax and Local Autonomy. Michael Bell, David Brunori, and Joan Youngman, editors, forthcoming.
Working Paper 027 - The Property Tax: Its Role and Significance in Funding State and Local Government Services, David Brunori, Richard Green, Michael Bell, Chanyung Choi, Bing Yuan, March 2006.
Working Paper 035 - Comparing Local Government Autonomy Across States. By Hal Wolman, Robert McManmon, Michael Bell, and David Brunori.
Title: Using Market Analysis of Home Values to Measure the Economic and Fiscal Effects of Multi-Use Trails
Researcher(s): Garry Young, Andrea Sarzynski, Joe Cordes, Hal Wolman, and Jeremy Larrieu
Funding: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Start Date: January 2010
Status: Current
Category: Housing Policy
Summary: Multi-use trails encourage and facilitate physical activity among all age groups. Their separation from motorized traffic makes them especially attractive for families with children. One concrete way to evaluate the economic benefit of trails to a community is to measure their impact on housing values. Does the presence of a trail affect housing prices? Does ease of access to a trail affect housing prices? In this proposed study we will estimate the economic impact of trail presence and access on housing values in Montgomery County, Maryland. In addition, the study will use its findings to calculate the impact of property tax revenues produced by the trails and compare those values with the construction and maintenance costs of the trails borne by the Montgomery County government.
Title: Implementing Regionalism: Connecting Emerging Theory and Practice to Inform Economic Development
Funding: The SURDNA Foundation
Researcher(s): Hal Wolman, Robert Weissbord, RW Ventures, Andrea Sarzynski, Alice Levy, and Diana Hincapie
Start Date: February 2010
Status: Completed
Category: Urban and Regional Policy
Summary: The project will undertake a thorough literature and case study review on regional systems and how they interact to bring about regional economic growth, organize the theoretical, empirical and case study literature into a coherent framework, and draw out the implications for economic development practice, including the types of emerging policies and programs that show signs of effectively driving positive economic outcomes. We will then convene leading national experts to vet and expand upon this work -- identifying further principles and successful practices for applying a regional framework to economic development of all kinds -- as well as to outline an applied research and product development agenda to fill remaining gaps in our collective knowledge and practice.
Work products:
Working Paper 041 - Spatial Efficiency and Regional Prosperity: A Literature Review and Policy Discussion. Andrea Sarzynski and Alice Levy. George Washington Institute of Public Policy (GWIPP). Draft August 16, 2010.
Working Paper 042- Cluster and Cluster-Based Development: A Literature Review and Policy Discussion. Hal Wolman and Diana Hincapie. George Washington Institute of Public Policy (GWIPP). Draft December 17th, 2010.
Working Paper 044- Government, Governance, and Regional Economic Growth. Hal Wolman and Alice Levy. George Washington Institute of Public Policy (GWIPP). Draft April, 2010.
Title: Economic Competitiveness of Washington, DC and the Region
Funding: District of Columbia Office of Revenue Analysis
Researcher(s): Hal Wolman, Garry Young, and Alice Levy
Start Date: June 2008
Status: Completed
Category: Economic and Industrial Development Policy
Summary: Our project asks what affects the economic competitiveness of the District of Columbia and why business establishments locate (or do not locate) in the District. To answer these questions, our analysis considers the factors that affect the overall regional economy and the factors that affect the District given the state or nature of the regional economy. The project will create a profile of the overall District economy as it relates to both the Washington metropolitan regional economy and the national economy. In addition, we will interview establishments that have recently located or opened within the Washington region to explore the various factors (e.g., land costs, business regulations, taxes) that influenced the decision to locate in the region and the further decision to locate at a specific spot within the region (either in or out of the District). Finally, we will produce a set of statistical models that predict economic performance for the region, and then for the District, that take into account the wide-range of factors that we know affect the economy, such as the nature of the local labor market, land costs, energy costs, taxation, transportation infrastructure, and so on. These models will give us the capacity to predict how changes in local conditions – including policy changes in areas such as taxation, education of the labor force, and business regulation – are likely to affect future economic performance.
Title: Assessing Change in Ohio's Older Industrial Cities
Funding: The Brookings Institution
Researcher: Hal Wolman
Start Date: March 2008
Status: Completed
Category: Economic and Industrial Development Policy Studies, Urban and Regional Policy
Summary: The purpose of this study is to assist Brookings' Metropolitan Policy Program in examining the changing fortunes of Ohio's older industrial cities since 1950. The research traces decade by decade change in population, economic well-being, and industrial structure from 1950 onwards of Ohio cities that had a population of at least 20,000 as of 1950. In addition, using the methodology developed for the prior national weak market study conducted by GWIPP for Brookings, we identify indicators of urban condition and performance and employ these indicators to develop a typology that places Ohio cities in categories of weak, moderate, and strong performers in an Ohio context.
Title: What Happens After Manufacturing Jobs Disappear? Non-Manufacturing Alternatives for Industrial Regions
Researcher(s): Hal Wolman, Nancy Y. Augustine, Pat Atkins, Leah Curran, Janet Stephens, Pamela Blumenthal,
Howard Wial (Brookings Institution), and Alec Friedhoff (Brookings Institution)
Funding: Sloan Foundation
Start Date: November 2006
Status: Completed
Category: Economic and Industrial Development Policy Studies
Summary: The continued loss of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. is a well-known and well-studied phenomenon that continues to be a concern to business, labor, elected officials and policymakers at all levels of government, and researchers. Yet we know relatively little about what happens in places that have lost manufacturing jobs. Have other jobs filled the vacuum, or is there a net loss of employment? If other jobs have replaced manufacturing jobs, what sectors have they been in, and how do wages in sectors where jobs have been gained compare to wages in the manufacturing sectors where jobs have been lost? What steps have the public sector, business and other sectors taken to change the industry, technological, and/or product mix of the metropolitan area economy, and how effective have those steps been? The study will focus on U.S. metropolitan areas that had concentrations of manufacturing jobs above the national average in 1990 and that lost manufacturing jobs between 1990 and 2005. It will describe the patterns of manufacturing job loss and non-manufacturing job gain (or, in a few cases, loss) that occurred in these areas. Through a set of case studies of eight metropolitan areas, it will then examine various policies and strategies by which government, business, and/or civic institutions sought to replace lost manufacturing jobs with new jobs in non-manufacturing industries.
Regional Policies and Strategies for Replacing Lost Manufacturing Jobs. Harold Wolman and Howard Wial, May 2009.
Title: Foreign Capital Cities and Their Relationship to the National Government: What Washington, DC Can Learn
Researcher(s): Hal Wolman, Garry Young, Jan Chadwick
Funding: Trellis Foundation
Start Date: January 2006
Status: Completed
Category: Washington Area Studies, International and Comparative Policy
Summary: The District of Columbia, as the capital of the United States, is in a unique set of circumstances with respect to other American cities, but it is not unique in the world. All countries have capital cities and they face many of the same problems as Washington, DC. The object of this study is to determine what can be learned from these cities and their relationship to their national governments that is relevant to the circumstances of Washington, DC, and will better inform the debate about the issues related to Washington's role as a capital city.
Working Paper 030 - Capital Cities and their National Governments: Washington, DC in Comparative Retrospective. Hal Wolman, Jan Chadwick, Anna Karruz, Julia Friedman, Garry Young, July 2007.
Title: Economic Competitiveness and the Determinants of Sub-National Economic Activity: A Literature Review
Funding: District of Columbia Office of Revenue Analysis
Researcher(s): Garry Young
Start Date: June 2008
Status: Completed
Category: Economic and Industrial Development Policy Studies
Summary: A review of existing theory and research findings on regional and local competitive advantage and on firm location decisions. The purpose of the literature review was to inform the development of a proposal to study economic competitiveness in the Washington, DC region.
Working Paper 033 - Literature Review on the Determinants of Residential Employment. Alice Levy, Robert Darst, Hal Wolman, and Garry Young, October 2008.
Working Paper 034 - Economic Competitiveness and the Determinants of Sub-National Area Economic Activity. Hal Wolman, Alice Levy, Garry Young, and Pamela Blumenthal, September 2008.
Title: The Determinants of Residential Employment: A Literature Review
Funding: District of Columbia Office of Revenue Analysis
Researcher(s): Hal Wolman, Garry Young, Alice Levy, Matt Darst
Start Date: June 2008
Status: Completed
Category: Social Policy, Housing Policy
Summary: A review of existing theory and research findings on the determinants of employment for individuals and the probability of employment for individuals with specific characteristics. The purpose of the literature review is to inform the development of a proposal to study the determinants of employment for residents of Washington, DC.
Working Paper 033 - Literature Review on the Determinants of Residential Employment. Alice Levy, Robert Darst, Hal Wolman, and Garry Young, October 2008.
Title: The Effect of State and Local Fiscal Policy on Local Economic Development
Funding: National Center for Real Estate Research
Researcher(s): David Brunori, Michael Bell, Hal Wolman, Joe Cordes, and Richard Green, School of Business (now at USC)
Start Date: August 2004
Status: Completed
Category: Economic and Industrial Development Policy Studies
Summary: Provide a synthesis and critique of current knowledge and research on 1) the factors driving local economic growth and development and 2) the effects of state and local fiscal policy upon local economic growth and development. The report will make clear where there is clear consensus, where there is disagreement, and where research is currently lacking.
Working Paper 026 - State and Local Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth and Development. Michael Bell, David Brunori, Richard Green, Hal Wolman, Joe Cordes, and Tanya Qadir, August 2005.
Title: The Ingredients for Successful and Vibrant Cities
Researcher(s): Hal Wolman, Royce Hanson, Pamela Blumenthal, Nancy Y. Augustine (GWIPP) and Ned Hill (Cleveland State University)
Funding: CEOs for Cities
Start Date: September 2005
Status: Completed
What are the ingredients that go into making a city successful? What public policy processes, investment strategies, and political actions are required to support the ingredients for city success? Affiliates of CEOs for Cities, a network of elected and appointed officials and business leaders in American cities, are being asked these questions to provide insight on the policies that help cities achieve success and help prioritize the allocation of political energy, capital, and financial resources to promote city renewal.
Blumenthal et. al, "Ingredients for Successful and Vibrant Cities," Report to CEOs for Cities, June 16th, 2008.
Wolman et. al, "Bringing Urban Leaders Together for Effective Change: What We Know." October 27th, 2006.
Blumenthal, P., Hill, E., and Wolman, H., " Understanding the Economic Performance of Metropolitan Areas in the United States," Urban Studies, March, 2009, pp. 605-627.
Wolman, H., Hill, E., Blumenthal, P., and Furdell, K., "Understanding Economically Distressed Cities," in R. McGahey and J. Vey (eds.), Retooling for Growth: Building a 21st Century Economy in America's Industrial Regions, Brookings Institution Press, 2008 pp. 151-178.
Curran, L.; Wolman, H.; Hill, E.; and Furdell, K, "Economic Well-Being and Where We Live:
Accounting for Geographic Cost of Living Differences," Urban Studies, December, 2006,
pp. 2443-2466.
Title: State and Local Fiscal Systems Face the Future
Funding: National Association of Realtors
Researchers: Hal Wolman, David Brunori, Michael Bell, Pat Atkins, Joe Cordes, and Bing Juan
Start Date: July 2005
Status: Completed
Category: State and Local Fiscal Policy
Summary: The project will examine recent trends in state and local revenues and expenditures and the current condition of state and local finances. In particular, it will assess the likely impact of foreseeable or potential future economic, social, political and technological changes on state and local revenues and expenditures.
Working Paper 025 - State and Local Fiscal Trends and Future Threats, David Brunori, Michael E. Bell, Hal Wolman, Patricia Atkins, Joseph J. Cordes, and Bing Yuan, 2005.
Title: Weak Market Cities: Research for the Brookings Institution's " America's Core Cities" Project
Funding: The Brookings Institution
Researcher(s): Hal Wolman and Kimberly Furdell, Ned Hill (Cleveland State University), Nancy Y. Augustine, and Pamela Blumenthal
Start Date:
Research: Completed
Summary: Preparation of a report for the Brookings Institution's "The Campaign for America's Core Cities: Research and Policy Development" project. The paper will define "weak market cities"; develop methodologies for identifying and ranking cities along a number of indicators of performance; create a statistically-based typology for weak market cities; and explain differences among core cities in terms of their condition in 2000 and performance between 1990 and 2000.
The current phase of the project broadens the scope of the original study to further characterize the differences between "weak market" and "non-weak market" cities, develop models to uncover which characteristics may have a causal relationship with key aspects of economic and residential health, and then expand analysis to examine additional cities within this framework.
Wolman, H., Hill, E., Blumenthal, P., and Furdell, K., "Understanding Economically Distressed Cities," in R. McGahey and J. Vey (eds.), Retooling for Growth: Building a 21st Century Economy in America's Industrial Regions, Brookings Institution Press, 2008 pp. 151-178.
Working Paper 032 - Understanding the Economic Performance of Metropolitan Areas in the United States. Pamela Blumenthal, Edward (Ned) Hill, and Hal Wolman, January 2008.
Working Paper 021 - Toward Understanding Urban Pathology: Creating a Typology of 'Weak Market' Cities, Kimberly Furdell and Hal Wolman, April 2006.
Working Paper 018 - Economic Well-being and Where We Live: Accounting for Geographic Cost-of-living Differences, Leah Curran, Harold Wolman, Edward W. (Ned) Hill and Kimberly Furdell, April 2005.
Title: Central City Population Loss and State Legislative Influence: Are City-Suburban Coalitions the Answer?
Funding: The Brookings Institution
Researcher(s): Hal Wolman, Nicholas Lyon, Margaret Weir (University of California-Berkeley), Todd Swanstrom (University of Missouri-St. Louis)
Start Date: April 2005
Status: Completed
Category: Urban Policy
Summary: As central cities have lost population relative to the rest of the state (and particularly to suburbs), their representation in state legislatures has decreased. How have cities attempted to respond to this loss of representation in an effort to retain their influence? The research explores the extent to which cities have attempted to achieve regional coalitions with their suburbs, as advocated by some analysts such as Myron Orfield who argue that cities and some of their suburbs increasingly share common interests. We selected major cities in four states: Illinois, Michigan, New York, and Ohio. Through interviews with mayoral aides, state legislators, and other actors as well as analysis of documents and roll call votes on important issues, we assessed the extent to which cities have engaged in coalitions with their suburbs and, more generally, what geographic areas or interests they do form coalitions with.
For more information about the Brookings Institution, visit www.brookings.edu.
Working Paper 003 - Cities and State Legislatures: Changing Coalitions and the Metropolitan Agenda, Harold Wolman, Todd Swanstrom, Margaret Weir, & Nicholas Lyon
Title: Lessons Learned in Homeland Security
Funding: Homeland Security Institute
Researchers: Hal Wolman
Start Date: October 2004
Status: Completed
Category: Homeland Security Policy
Summary: This project involves mining relevant information repositories to construct a qualitative database of the Lessons Learned from catastrophes, both man-made and natural, with an eye towards recognizing trends and patterns in problems and solutions.
Title: Soft Metrics for Critical Infrastructure Protection (Research Design)
Funding: Homeland Security Institute
Start Date: October 2004
Status: Completed
Category: Homeland Security Policy
Summary: This project involves creating a research design with two components. In the first component the GWIPP team will produce a survey methodology for measuring how the American people rank order national icons – such as national monuments, federal buildings, and significant natural landmarks – in terms of importance. In the second component the GWIPP team will develop a design for exploring how to measure the impact of a major terrorist attack on public perception in four areas – national security, governance, public confidence, and economic scope and duration.
Title: Fiscal Disparities among Local Governments in Metropolitan Areas: Their Extent and Causes
Funding: US Department of Housing and Urban Development
Researcher(s): Hal Wolman, Pat Atkins, Michael Bell, Joe Cordes, and Leah Curran
Start Date: August 2004
Status: Completed
Category: State and Local Fiscal Policy
Summary: The project explores the extent to which fiscal disparities exist among local jurisdictions within different kinds of metropolitan areas and why these disparities exist. We are particularly interested in the extent of fiscal disparities among suburban jurisdictions as well as between suburban jurisdictions and central cities. We calculate disparities among local governments in a small, regionally representative set of metropolitan areas. We also explore the characteristics of metropolitan areas that are associated with greater fiscal disparities. Finally, we will discuss the policy implications of these findings
Working Paper 019 - Intrametropolitan Area Revenue Raising Disparities and Equities, Patricia Atkins, Leah Curran, Michael Bell, Harold Wolman, and Joseph Cordes, 2005.
Title: Intra-Metropolitan Area Fiscal Capacity Disparities and the Property Tax: The Washington DC Region
Funding: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Start Date: August 2004
Status: Completed
Category: State and Local Fiscal Policy, Washington Area Studies
Summary: The study adapts a methodology developed by the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, to calculate disparities in the revenue capacity of local governments in the Washington,DC area. It then estimates the effect a shift to a real property tax on land only would have on these disparities. We found that the major disparities were between suburban jurisdictions; Washington D.C., the core center city in the metropolitan area, had an average revenue capacity. When revenue capacity was recalculated assuming a real property tax on land only, we found this had a slight positive effect on ameliorating differences in revenue-rising ability.
Title: State and Local Infrastructure Financing
Funding: National Center for Real Estate Research, National Association of Realtors
Researchers: Hal Wolman, Michael Bell, David Brunori, Royce Hanson, Chanyong Choi, Lori Metcalf, and Bing Yuan
Start Date: August 2004
Status: Completed
Category: State and Local Fiscal Policy
Summary: The report consists of four parts: The first part presents data on aggregate state and local infrastructure spending for the nation and for the fifty states individually. We define infrastructure to include highways (including streets and bridges), mass transit, air transportation, water transportation, water supply and sewerage. We collect and report spending trends for each category of infrastructure, including total spending by category and capital spending by category for the most recent year available (2002). The second part examines recent trends in federal intergovernmental assistance to state and local governments for infrastructure purposes. The third part is a literature review in order to develop a general understanding of the various financing mechanism used by state and local governments to finance infrastructure spending. The concluding part is an extensive literature review of the mechanisms available to state and local governments to undertake prioritization of infrastructure needs.
Working Paper 028 - State and Local Infrastructure Financing, Mike Bell, David Brunori, Royce Hanson, Chanyong Choi, Lori Metcalf, and Bing Yuan, November 2005
Title: Corporate Citizenship and Urban Problem Solving: The Changing Civic Role of Business Leaders in American Cities
Funding: The Brookings Institution
Researcher(s): Royce Hanson, Hal Wolman, David Connally, Katherine Pearson
Start Date: July 2004
Status: Completed
Category: Urban Policy
Summary: Historically, business leaders have played a major role in the building, rebuilding, and public policy of major American cities. However, recent urban literature has frequently asserted that there has been increasing disengagement of corporate leaders from civic efforts. In this study we identified and documented common patterns in the changes that have occurred in corporate citizenship and executive participation in civic affairs; analyzed factors that explain these changes in the structure, management, and organizational culture of firms; conducted two intensive case studies (Baltimore and Cleveland) that describe the responses of business leaders and their peak civic organizations to changes in membership, public leadership and agendas, and economic and social circumstances; and draw lessons that can be applied by business and political leaders seeking to establish and maintain public-private coalitions that are effective in resolving critical urban problems.
Hanson, R.; Wolman, H; Connolly, D.; McManmon, R.; and Pearson, K, "Corporate Citizenship and Urban Problem Solving: The Changing Civic Role of Business Leaders in American Cities," Journal of Urban Affairs, forthcoming.
Title: The Effect of State Policy on Urban Performance
Funding: The Fannie Mae Foundation
Researcher(s): Hal Wolman and Kimberly Furdell (GWIPP), and Ned Hill (Cleveland State University).
Start Date: September 2004
Status: Completed
Category: Urban Policy
Summary: To what extent and how does state government policy affect the performance of major cities within the state on a wide variety of indicators of resident well-being? The project will proceed by first identifying cities that have performed well between 1990-2000 on each of a series of 20 indicators (e.g., change in poverty rate, unemployment rate, housing affordability, crime rate, etc.). It will then model performance on each of these indicators to identify cities that performed better than the model would have predicted. Case studies will then be conducted to assess whether this better than expected performance was due to state (or city) policies directed at the state's cities.
Working Paper 016 - State Policy Effects on Urban Performance. Kimberly Furdell, Hal Wolman, Ned Hill, and Elaine Weiss, April 2005.
Working Paper 020 - Explaining City Performance: How Important is State Policy? Pamela Blumenthal, Kimberly Furdell, Elaine Weiss, and Hal Wolman, April 2006.
Working Paper 029 - What Explains Central City Performance? Hal Wolman, Ned Hill (Cleveland State University), Pat Atkins, Pamela Blumenthal, Kimberly Furdell, and Elaine Weiss, February 2007 (revised).
"States and Their Cities: Partnerships for the Future." Hal Wolman, Ned Hill, Patricia Atkins, Pamela Blumenthal, Leah Beth Curran, Kimberly Furdell, Jo Anne Schneider, and Elaine Weiss, 2007.
"State Policy Effects on Urban Performance." Kimberly Furdell, Hal Wolman, Ned Hill, and Elaine Weiss, April 2005. Paper presented at the annual meeting of The Urban Affairs Association, April 2008.
Title: Did Central Cities Come Back?
Funding: Fannie Mae Foundation
Researchers: Hal Wolman, Kimberly Furdell, and Ned Hill (Cleveland State)
Start Date:
Status: Completed
Category: Urban Policy
Summary: During the late 1990s, commentators frequently heralded the comeback of America's cities. This project examined the extent to which cities that were distressed in the 1980s could be said to have "come back" by the year 2000. It then modeled the economic and social structural determinants of city performance between 1980-2000 and identified those cities that performed significantly better or worse than the model would have predicted. Finally, it speculated on the reasons for these divergent performances – and particularly whether city or state policy could have played a role - and suggested a strategy for pursuing research to test these speculations. A paper, "Have Central Cities Come Back" was presented at the 2004 Urban Affairs Association Conference in Washington, DC on April 2, 2004.
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Working Paper 005 - Have central cities come back?, Kimberly Furdell, Edward W. (Ned) Hill, and Harold Wolman.
Title: Managing Growth and Workforce Housing in Edge Counties
Funding: Fannie Mae Foundation
Start Date: June 2002
Category: Planning, Growth Management, and Sprawl
Status: Completed
Summary: Researcher(s) completed detailed interviews with the primary policy officials responsible for growth management and affordable workforce housing in 37 of the fastest growing counties, including county managers, county executives, and chief county planners. Conversations with these officials show that much of their work continues to occur within planning tools and laws developed before rapid growth began, and that this situation increases their work load and reduces their capacity to respond in a comprehensive and strategic manner. These rapidly growing areas – with an onslaught of governance, fiscal and commercial decisions on land use – overtake the available community resources able to be devoted to handling growth and ensuring adequate housing supply. While factors such as sufficient amounts of developable land clearly deflate the immediate magnitude of growth and housing problems, the few counties with cohesive urban management plans better deploy resources and prepare for their fast-growth future.
Title: Evaluating the Success of Urban Success Stories of the 1990s
Funding: Fannie Mae Foundation
Researcher(s): Hal Wolman, Kimberly Furdell, and Ned Hill (Cleveland State)
Start Date: November 2001
Status: Completed
Category: Urban Policy
Summary: The project studied "urban success stories" which are defined as cities that gain the reputation of having rebounded from adversity, overcome their distressed condition, and experienced revitalization. The research evaluated the extent to which the well-being of the residents of these perceived "urban success story" cities actually improves as a result of the presumed success.
"Evaluating the Success of Urban Success Stories: Is Reputation a Guide to Best Practice?" Harold Wolman, Ned Hill, and Kimberly Furdell, 2004; Housing Policy Debate, 2005.
"Did Central Cities Come Back? Which Ones, How Far, and When?" Kimberly Furdell, Hal Wolman, and Ned Hill. Journal of Urban Affairs, 27(3), 283-306.
Working Paper 005 - Have Central Cities Come Back? Kimberly Furdell, Ned Hill, and Harold Wolman.
Title: Measuring Progress in the Greater Washington Region: 2001 Potomac Index
Funding: Brookings Institution
Researcher(s): Pat Atkins, Hal Wolman
Start Date: May 2001
Status: Completed
Category: Washington Area Studies
Summary: America Online, Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, Meyer Foundation, Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP. The 2001 Potomac Index charted the Washington region's progress on a series of indicators grouped around five major themes. Research indicators show that the Greater Washington region has a strong economy, a highly educated population, and an extensive educational, philanthropic and nonprofit sector. It lags in performance on other indicators with a shortage of affordable housing, poor water quality in the Anacostia River, significant traffic congestion, poor air quality, and consumption of land in excess of population growth. A survey conducted for the Index showed that four out of five residents rate the region as an excellent, very good, or good place to live.
Title: Defining and Measuring Sprawl
Funding: Fannie Mae Foundation
Researcher(s): Hal Wolman, Royce Hanson, George Galster (Wayne State), and Michael Ratcliffe (US Census Bureau)
Start Date: January 2001
Status: Completed
Category: Planning, Growth Management, and Sprawl
Summary: This project reviewed the literature on sprawl and concluded that it was a poorly defined and ambiguous concept. It then defined sprawl conceptually and operationalized it as seven patterns of land use, each of which consisted of a continuum ranging from very sprawl-like to very unsprawl-like. Each of these dimensions was then operationalized so that it could be calculated for urbanized areas. As an illustration, calculations on each of the dimensions were made for 13 urbanized areas and a standardized sprawl score was calculated for each.
Title: Ranking Areas by Dimensions of Sprawl
Researcher(s): Hal Wolman, Royce Hanson, George Galster (Wayne State), Michael Ratcliffe (US Census Bureau), and Jackie Cutsinger (Wayne State)
Funding: U.S. Geological Survey
Start Date:
Status: Completed
Summary: The project measured sprawl on seven dimensions for a sample of 50 of the largest US Extended Urban Areas. It then applied factor analysis to derive a set of factors combining the dimensions and calculated the "sprawl" scores for each of the 50 areas for each of the factors. A paper, "Verifying Sprawl's Distinct Dimensions," was presented at the 2004 meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, Washington, DC, on April 2, 2004.
"Verifying Sprawl's Distinct Dimensions," presented at the 2004 meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, Washington, DC, on April 2, 2004.
Title: Focus on Success: How do Children from Poor Families Escape from Poverty?
Funding: University of Maryland Baltimore County - The Ford Foundation
Researcher(s): Hal Wolman, Nancy Augustine, George Galster (Wayne State), David Marcote (UMBC), and Marvin Mandell (UMBC)
Start Date: October 2000
Status: Completed
Category: Social Policy
Summary: What accounts for the fact that some children who grow up in very poor households in a very poor neighborhood, nonetheless succeed? To answer this question we utilize PSID, a panel database, and follow the cohort of children born between 1967-1974 into their adulthood. We examine the adult outcomes of these children – income, employment, educational attainment, etc. – and, using simultaneous equation models, test the relative impact of parental background characteristics, parental behavior, neighborhood effects, social capital, and housing tenure as a child on adult outcomes.
Galster, G., Marcotte, D., Mandell, M., Wolman, H., and Augustine, N., "The Impact of Parental Homeownership on Children's Outcomes during Early Adulthood," Housing Policy Debate, 2007, Vol. 18 (4) pp. 785-828.
Galster, G.; Marcotte, D.; Mandell, M.; Wolman, H.; and Augustine, N., "The Influence of Neighborhood Poverty During Childhood on Fertility, Education, and Earnings Outcomes," Housing Studies, 2007, V. 22 (Sept.), pp. 723-751.


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>> Givenchy started forty minutes late this evening, due in part to the delayed arrival of Riccardo Tisci favorite Ciara — the photographers booed her on her way in. Speaking of arrivals — muse Mariacarla Boscono wasn't able to make it, so fellow brand face Natalia Vodianova, fresh of her Etam lingerie collection presentation yesterday, filled in.
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