I am happy to issue the Spring 2022 newsletter of the Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning. While last year was a challenge, with all of our courses delivered remotely, this year was even more disorienting with a tentative move back to campus, a new course management system (Canvas), a new “attend anywhere” teaching modality offering simulcast remote and in-person instruction, and mask and vaccine requirements for campus buildings. These combined to create new challenges, but our staff and faculty stepped up, and we made it through.
I expect this coming fall will go more smoothly with more activities, classes and meetings transitioning back to campus. Also this fall, Toulan School leadership will transition as Dr. Greg Schrock will take over as school director. It’s been a real privilege to lead our school for the past five years, and I am excited to pass the baton to Greg and return to normal teaching and research activities. Other changes in the school include the promotion of faculty members Dr. Lisa Bates to Professor, and Dr. Kacy McKinney to Senior Instructor - congratulations to you both.
Our team will undergo another big transition with the retirement of Dr. Connie Ozawa this summer. For 28 years, Dr. Ozawa has served as core faculty in the planning area with a focus on environmental policy and management, planning theory and practice, and negotiation and dispute resolution. Dr. Ozawa co-edited with other school faculty “The Portland Edge: Challenges and Successes in Growing Communities” (2004) and authored “Recasting Science: Consensus-Based Procedures in Public Policy Making” (1991). Her more recent scholarship focuses on community resilience, collaborative governance, working with practitioners and decision-makers in Oregon and around the world. Dr. Ozawa held important leadership roles at various times in her career, serving as Toulan School director from 2009 to 2015, a member of our AAUP bargaining team during three rounds of contract negotiations, and more recently, as member and chair of the Planning Accreditation Board which accredits professional planning programs across North America. Join me in wishing her the best in the next chapters of her life and career.
The Toulan School team suffered a significant loss this past Spring with the passing of Will Macht. He was an important resource on development and real-estate and was an instructor of undergraduate and graduate real estate courses for decades. For more about his long and storied career, from law and international development finance to urban development and planning, see his obituary in The Oregonian. See Gerry Mildner’s post for more about Will’s connection to the real estate and planning programs here at PSU.
With over 15 faculty and 300 students spread over five degree programs and five graduate certificates, it is impossible to include all of the news from our students and faculty here. I will highlight some of the biggest news and web links will allow you to explore further. A list of recent research projects, articles and reports can be found below my signature.
Dr. Kacy McKinney’s arts-based scholarship on housing and homelessness produced a significant project involving student and community researchers and artists - the 80-page comic book, Changing the Narrative: Stories of Student Homelessness and Housing Instability. The project is funded by the Homelessness Research and Action Collaborative (led by Toulan School faculty Dr. Marisa Zapata) and the Regional Arts and Culture Council. In partnership with Street Roots, 6000 copies of the book were sold, leading to $24,000 in sales going directly to Street Roots vendors. Dr. McKinney is part of a group of campus faculty developing a proposal for a new degree program in Comic Studies, and is offering a new course, “Research into Comics” this coming fall.
The Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies (IMS) continued to grow its programming under the leadership of Interim Director Dr. Greg Schrock. The Community Recovery Fellowship (CRF) program ran for its second year, placing 12 students with 11 community-based and frontline serving organizations in and around Portland. A symposium in January 2022 highlighted some of the CRF program accomplishments and impacts, and the program is still accepting applications for this summer. And IMS launched the Metropolitan Engaged Research Initiative (MERI) grant program to support faculty-led engaged research projects. TSUSP Associate Professor Dr. Megan Horst was one of two CUPA faculty supported this past year through the MERI program. You can follow IMS on LinkedIn to learn more about upcoming projects and initiatives.
Our faculty, staff and students had another strong year of recognition. Timothy Smith, FAICP, adjunct instructor of our urban design workshop was admitted as a member of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners. Hannah Silver, adjunct faculty member who teaches the design analysis and planning dynamics courses in our MURP core won the annual teaching award for the Toulan School. Assistant professor Ozzy Tunalilar is the winner of this year's Craig Wollner Memorial Award - given to a single assistant professor from the college for their excellence in scholarship, teaching and service. Finally, Nora Quiros, Toulan School department manager, was awarded the college-wide staff award this year.
Kyuri Kim, PhD student in Urban Studies received the IBPI Excellence in Active Transportation Scholarship. Trevor Luu, Spring 2022 MURP graduate received the IBPI Active Transportation w/ Alta Planning + Design Scholarship. Caroline Crisp, Spring 2022 MURP graduate received the WTS Portland Beverley Swaim Leadership Legacy Graduate Scholarship. Kelly Rodgers, PhD student in Urban Studies received the National Institute for Transportation and Communities Outstanding Student of the Year. Spring 2022 MURP graduate Nick Meusch received the 2021-22 APTF Board Scholarship. Mary Chase was awarded outstanding graduating MURP student as part of the national American Planning Association (APA) Outstanding Student award program. Finally, Spring 2022 Community Development graduate Kenja Bettis was awarded the 2022 Glasper West Leadership Award for community development.
Thanks so much for your interest and support of the Toulan School community. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to me if ever want to connect about anything school related. Have a great summer!
Aaron Golub
Director and Professor
Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning
Portland State University
Faculty and Student Projects and Publications 2021-22
Faculty and students are involved in a wide variety of research projects. Just a sampling of recent work is presented below in a list of recent projects and publications. Research in TSUSP is organized through several research centers such as the Center of Urban Studies, the Institute for Sustainable Solutions, the Population Research Center, the Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC), the Northwest Economic Research Center, and the Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative.
Bates. In Unprecedented Times, Nothing Less Than Universal Rent Relief Will Do. Shelterforce.
Bates. Tired, But Hopeful. Planning Theory & Practice.
Bates, et al. Panel: Opportunity in the Crisis: Findings from a Year of Research on Renters in the Pandemic and the Programs Needed to Stabilize Them.
Bates, Zapata, Greene & Knowlton. Cost of Oregon Evictions Report. Portland State University Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative.
Corbin. In Red, Black, and Green: The Political Ecological Eras of Oakland, California from 1937-2020. Presentation at 2021 MaGrann Conference: Intimate Toxicities, Department of Geography, Rutgers University.
Conlon. Plastic Roads: Not all they’re paved up to be. International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology.
Conlon. A social systems approach to sustainable waste management: leverage points for plastic reduction in Colombo, Sri Lanka. International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology.
Denham, Rozance, Malone & Goodling. Sustaining Future Environmental Educators: Building Critical Interdisciplinary Teaching Capacity Among Graduate Students. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences.
Dill & McNeil. Are Shared Vehicles Shared by All? A Review of Equity and Vehicle Sharing. Journal of Planning Literature.
Dill & Liu. "Economic Impacts of Street Improvements: Findings from Portland Area" TREC Friday Seminar Series.
Zhou, Liu, Wei & Golub. Bi-Objective Optimization for Battery Electric Bus Deployment Considering Cost and Environmental Equity. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Ho, York & Hystad. Public Health Chapter in Dalton & Fleishman, editors. Fifth Oregon Climate Assessment. Oregon Climate Change Research Institute, Oregon State University.
Horst, team member on project: Incentivizing Land Access For Small, Beginning And Socially Disadvantaged Farmers And Ranchers: Research, Extension And Community Of Practice
Schrock, Horst, & Ock. Incorporating an Equity Lens into Climate Action Planning in Portland, Oregon. In Justice in Climate Action Planning, Peterson & Ducros, eds.
Horst, McClintock, Baysse-Lainé, et al. Translating land justice through comparison: a US–French dialogue and research agenda. Agric Human Values.
Lee, Smart & Golub. Difference in travel behavior between immigrants in the US and US born residents: the immigrant effect for car-sharing, ride-sharing, and bike-sharing services. Transportation research interdisciplinary perspectives.
Lee & Golub. The residential property value premium of the proximity to carsharing and bikesharing services: Evidence from New York City. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Macht. Drones for Development. Urban Land.
Marotta. Windows into the Ethically Made: Affect, Value, and the ‘Pricing Paradox’ in the Maker Movement Journal of Cultural Economy.
Marotta. “Weighing Anchor," for a symposium paper on the life and scholarship of Lauren Berlant (ed. Ben Anderson) The Geographical Journal.
Marotta. Old Detroit, New Detroit: ‘Makers’ and the Impasse of Place Change. Cultural Geographies.
McKinney, Hardy, Ruffu & Handley-Merk. Changing the Narrative Around Homelessness Through Collaborative Comics Research.
McNeil. Streetsblog podcast: PSU-PBOT transportation community class model in Salt Lake City.
Kim, Malizia, Nelson, Wolf-Powers, Ganning, & Schrock. Real Estate Development and Economic Development Planning Education: Pragmatic Turn or Trojan Horse? Journal of Planning Education and Research.
Lowe, Schrock, Jain, & Conway. Genesis at work: Advancing inclusive innovation through manufacturing extension. Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit.
Schrock & Lowe. Inclusive innovation editorial: The promise of inclusive innovation. Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit,
Shmueli, Ozawa & Kaufman. Collaborative Planning for Disaster Preparedness and Response. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
Sullivan. The Paradox of Change in the American West: Global Climate Destruction and the Reallocation of Urban Space and Priorities. (with Professor A. Dan Tarlock), University of Oregon Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation
Sullivan. The Natural Resource Protection Conundrum. (with Caleb J. Huegel) Willamette University Law Review
Tunalilar & Carder. Oregon Department of Human Services grant to conduct a 20-month study on administrator turnover and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in assisted living facilities.
Tunalilar, Carder, Dys, & Elliott. Considerations for Survey Research in Assisted Living. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.
Dys, Tunalilar & Carder. Cognition-Enhancing, Antipsychotic, and Opioid Medication Use Among Assisted Living and Residential Care Residents in Oregon. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.
Tunalilar, Lin & Carder Survey Deficiencies as Quality Indicators in Oregon Assisted Living Communities. The Gerontologist.
Lin & Tunalilar. Rapid Adoption of Electronic Health Record and Health Information Exchange Among Assisted Living Communities, 2010-2018. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Tunalilar. Administrator Turnover in Oregon Assisted Living and Residential Care Communities, March 2020-February 2021. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.
Bucy, Carder & Tunalilar “Dying in Place: Factors Associated with Hospice Use in Assisted Living and Residential Care Communities in Oregon.” Journal of Aging and Environment.
Cater, Tunalilar, White, Hasworth & Winfree “Home is Home”: Exploring the Meaning of Home across Long-Term Care Settings. Journal of Aging and Environment.
Dr. Tunalilar co-authored an op-ed celebrating Older Americans Month https://pamplinmedia.com/ocn/57-opinion/545123-436454-ohsu-professors-clackamas-county-residents-can-age-their-way
He, Tao, Cheung, Puczkowsky & Lin. Transit-oriented development, perceived neighbourhood gentrification and sense of community: A case study of Hong Kong. Case Studies on Transport Policy.
Tan, McNeil, MacArthur & Rodgers. Evaluation of a Transportation Incentive Program for Affordable Housing Residents. Evaluation of a Transportation Incentive Program for Affordable Housing Residents. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board.
Aghababaei, Koliou, Watson & Xiao. Quantifying Post-Disaster Business Recovery through Bayesian Methods. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering Maintenance, Management, Life-Cycle Design and Performance.
Zapata & MacArthur. Awarded grant from National Academies of Science (NAS): TCRP J-11/Task 40: Homelessness: A Guide for Public Transportation.