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Recent Articles and Reports · Gender Wage Disparity in the Pittsburgh Region, co-author with Christopher Briem, American Behavioral Scientist, 53, no. 2 (October 2009): 239-260. · City Schools and Civic Capacity: Another Look at Pittsburgh, Boston and St. Louis, Voices in Urban Education, Annenberg Institute in School Reform, Brown University, Spring, 2009. · Social Return on Investment Case Study Analysis: Community Human Services In-Home Services/Homemaker Program and The Union Project Youth Barista Program, with Kathryn Collins and Huiping Xie. Applied Research about the Pittsburgh Region’s Nonprofit Sector, Tropman Report, 2008. · The Nonprofit Sector: An Economic and Community Asset, with Christopher Briem, Kathryn Collins and Hiuping Xie, Tropman Reports, vol. 7, no. 1, 2008. · The Impact of Nonprofit, Large Landowners on Public Finance in a Fiscally Distressed Municipality: A Case Study of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Working Paper WP07SD1. Cambridge, Mass.: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, December 2007. · Gender Wage Disparity in the Pittsburgh Region: Analyzing Causes and Differences in the Gender Wage Gap, with Chris Briem and Susan Hanson, University Center for Social and Urban Research, University of Pittsburgh, December 2007. · The Impact of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and UPMC Cancer Centers on the Pittsburgh Regional Economy, co-author with Christopher Briem. Prepared for the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. University Center for Social and Urban Research, University of Pittsburgh, October 2007. · Allegheny County Housing and Socio-Demographic Trends,” co-author with Christopher Briem and Angela Williams Foster. Prepared for the Allegheny County Comprehensive Plan, University Center for Social and Urban Research, University of Pittsburgh and McCormick Taylor, Inc., Pittsburgh, December 2005. · Allegheny County Economic Trends Report,” co-author with Christopher Briem. Prepared for the Allegheny County Comprehensive Plan, University Center for Social and Urban Research, University of Pittsburgh and McCormick Taylor, Inc., Pittsburgh, December 2005. · New Urbanism in the Inner City:  A Case Study of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,” co-author with Cliff Ellis. Journal of the American Planning Association, 70, no. 4 (Autumn 2004): 426-442. “The University and the Oakland Neighborhood:  From Conflict to Cooperation, or How the 800 Pound Gorilla Learned to Sit With -- and not on -- its Neighbors,” co-author with Tracy Soska, Chapter 2 in D. Perry and W. Wiewel (eds). The University as Urban Developer: Case Studies and Analysis. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2005. “Managing Brownfields as Community Assets,” co-author with Stephen Farber. Chapter 8 in F. Wagner, T. Joder, A. Mumphrey, Jr., K. Akundi, A. Artibise (eds) Revitalizing the City:  Strategies to Contain Sprawl and Revive the Core.  Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2005. “Brownfields and Community Development,” co-author with Margaret Dewar, in R. Greenstein and Y. Sungu-Eryilmaz (eds) Recycling the City:  The Use and Reuse of Urban Land. Cambridge, Mass.: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2004. “The Importance of Design:  New Urbanism and community revitalization,” Shelterforce 23, no. 2 (March/April 2001): 18-20. "Canadian Foreign Direct Investment, the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Pittsburgh Regional Economy," co-author with Clyde Mitchell-Weaver, Région et Développement, 10, (1999): 57-88. "Multi-layered Economic Restructuring in an Old Industrial Region:  The Pittsburgh Transition," Great Lakes Geographer 6, nos. 1-2 (1999): 12-28. "Cross National Comparison of Post Cold War Defense Conversion and Labor Policies:  Sweden and the United States," Environment and Planning C:  Government and Policy 17, no.2 (April 1999): 145-160. "The Post Industrial Revitalization of Pittsburgh:  Myths and Evidence," Community Development Journal, 34, no. 1 (January 1999): 4-12.