New Publication

John L. Renne, Thomas W. Sanchez, and Todd Litman
Carless and Special Needs Evacuation Planning: A Literature Review
Journal of Planning Literature November 2011 26: 420-431, first published on October 10, 2011 doi:10.1177/0885412211412315

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New Publication

Fall 2011
Transportation, Accessibility and Equity

Feature Articles

• Public Transit’s Imperiled Future (153 KB)
  By Lisa Schweitzer
• Getting There: Putting Accessibility into Practice for Progressive Transportation Planning
  By Jonathan Levine and Joe Grengs
• What is Transportation Equity?
  By Tom Sanchez
• Race, Class and Public Transit in the Motor City
  By Joel M. Batterman
• Fruits, Veggies and Mass Cycling
  By Kevin J. Krizek
• Liberalism, neoliberalism and Urban Transportation
  By Aaron Golub
• Public Works, Public Networks: Community-Centric Telecommunications Planning (418 KB)
  By Greta Byrum and Benjamin Lennett
• Foreclosures and the Federal Response
  By Neil Mayer
• Christopher St. John and the Maine Center for Economic Policy
  By Pierre Clavel
• Cuba Protects Private Housing, Not Capitalist Real Estate
  By Jill Hamberg
• “This Square is our Home!”: The Organization of Urban Space in the Spanish 15-M Movement
  By Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago

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MURP Students Contribute to 16 Blocks Magazine

VT MURP Students Leslie Tate and Jed Grubbs' article on the Stroubles Creek Watershed was recently published in the local magazine 16 Blocks.

The creek as it runs behind the office at Old Town Hall

STROUBLES CREEK

Disrepair

If not for Stroubles, the Town of Blacksburg would not exist. At least not where it is today. Freshwater springs exist on both the east and west corner of the town’s 16 blocks and the community was purposefully positioned between these springs. The branches of these springs, along with a third branch, meet to become Stroubles Creek, which had provided Blacksburg with drinking water for over 150 years until health concerns forced us to draw downstream from the New River. Today, however, a visitor strolling through town is likely unaware that moving waters are buried beneath the concrete. Yet they continue to flow, and while we may have put Stroubles out of sight and out of mind, it has not ceased to assert its influence or wane in its importance.

~ Access the remainder of the article here.

UAP Students Contribute Article to Local 16 Blocks Magazine

It’s 1922. Ragtime music’s playing while prohibition is gaining ground. The 19th Amendment passed giving women the right to vote, and the world’s witnessing sweeping political, social and economic changes after the Great War. Here in Blacksburg, changes are happening and new buildings are being constructed on Virginia Tech’s campus and in downtown. The town is growing and a local theater was completed that year. This theater – the Lyric – is not the one we know and cherish today.

~ Read the full article here.

New Publication

Yang Zhang, Assistant Professor in the UAP, had his article published in The Journal of Planning Education and Research. And abstract for the article, Residential Housing Choice in a Multihazard Environment: Implications for Natural Hazards Mitigation and Community Environmental Justice, can be found at this link.

The full article is found is in the following issue of the journal: Journal of Planning Education and Research 2010;30 117-131