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Geronimo PhD ’24 receives ACSP Best Dissertation in Planning
Laura Geronimo Ph.D. ’24 is the recipient of the 2016 ACSP Barclay Gibbs Jones Award for Best Dissertation in Planning. Her thesis explores the political economy of coastal climate adaptation, or the struggle for power and resources between competing interest groups.
GenAI, Ingenuity, the Law, and Unintended Consequences
Andrews begins by asking the age-old question: “If people want the benefits of innovations, must they simply accept the unintended adverse consequences”? He implies that there
are certain tools and techniques that could assist designers in addressing challenges before they take root, so that the challenges may be easily preventable before diffusion of an innovation into the market.
Herts Named New Superintendent of Civil Rights Monument
The National Park Service (NPS) has announced the selection of Rolando Herts, Ph.D. Planning and Public Policy ’11, as superintendent of Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument and Freedom Riders National Monument in Alabama, effective Sep. 9.
Residents compare Clifton council members fighting over seats to preschoolers
A longtime observer of New Jersey’s local governments, Marc Pfeiffer, a researcher at Rutgers’ Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, said part of the problem can be attributed to the recent member turnover on the City Council, with the exit of James Anzaldi as mayor after more than 30 years and the deaths of members Peter Eagler and Lauren Murphy.
EAC Included in $16 Million Climate Project Funding
Funding will support NJ projects such as enhancing the New Jersey Resilience Toolkit for municipal-level planning, a $2 million project headed by Lucas Marxen at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy.
American Dream says it’s 87% occupied. But Meadowlands towns are still owed $13 million
“Economic conditions change. Your expectations have to change,” said Marc Pfeiffer, associate director of the Bloustein Local Government Research Center at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. “They wouldn’t be able to cut that same type of deal today.”
Extreme Heat Means Tough Choices for NYC Building Owners
Aside from thermal cracks, a related focus for structural engineers are gaps between dissimilar materials that respond to heat differently. For both of these reasons, New York City buildings will likely see an uptick in thermal cracking and weathering this century, according to Rutgers’ Andrews.
NJSPL – Examining New Income Distribution Data from the U.S. BEA
The United States Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) recently began publishing state-level data on the distribution of personal income across households. Newly released data offer an opportunity to examine the distribution of income and income inequality in New Jersey compared to the nation and other states over the last decade, with the possibility of eventually incorporating these measures into the R/ECON state economic forecast.
New Income Distribution Data from the U.S. BEA
Based on the BEA data for 2022, New Jersey’s median personal income ranked 4th in the nation at $137,252, about 23% higher than the national median.
How does New Jersey benefit from tax incentives given to film, TV and AI industries?
“It’s simply because AI is such a hot topic right now, such a hot term, I’m not sure how this would necessarily differ from any of the targeted industries they already identify, which are mostly high-tech industries,” Irving said.
How a major hurricane could upend Cape and Islands’ economy
“The houses that were affected by Sandy that suffered damage, for three years they were worth less than neighboring houses, but by year four the market had forgotten. And they were worth just as much as neighboring houses,” Andrews said.
Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Flooded Into Newark Schools From Covid. Where It All Landed Is Not So Clear
Some of that spending has raised the ire of elected officials in New Jersey–most recently a $50,000 “Superintendent Fun Day” that paid for staff and their families to party at an upscale suburban wedding venue. “The type of outing they do is often found in the private sector,” said Marc Pfeiffer