R M Silverman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 8208 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | R M Silverman |
| NOMBRES | R M |
| APELLIDO | Silverman |
| FIRMA | SILVERMAN R M |
| AFILIACIONES | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2155-7871 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 52 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 194 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1947 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Using ChatGPT to enhance public participation
Purpose In May of 2024, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) proposed to reschedule marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). As part of the rescheduling process, public comments were solicited online during a three-month period. At the end of the public comment period, 42,903 comments were submitted. The collection and analysis of a large volume of public comments is a challenge for policymakers, especia…
Public discourse in the aftermath of the 2022 mass shooting in Buffalo, NY
Marijuana Dispensary Locations and Neighborhood Characteristics in New York City
New York State (NYS) passed the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA) in March of 2021 to legalize adult-use recreational cannabis that allows for its distribution, retail sale, and on-site consumption in licensed businesses. While the state (NYS) has imposed some spatial constraints on the dispensaries’ locations, it is unclear what the current spatial patterns of those dispensaries are and how they impact neighborhoods. This research exp…
Exploring Indonesian coastal communities' responses to the 2019 Ambon earthquake and preparedness for future disasters
Since the seventeenth century, megathrust earthquakes and tsunamis have occurred and have been recorded in Maluku Province, Indonesia. The Maluku community lives on land of most alluvial soil, areas where tsunamis have occurred, besides the active path of seismic and volcanoes, which has negatively impacted humans during disasters. Therefore, learning from past communities’ responses and experiences is vital to decrease the risk associated with p…
Building the Prison to Legal Drug Dealing Pipeline
Since 2012, twenty-four states have legalized adult-use recreational cannabis. To varying degrees, state laws allow for the production, distribution, retail sale, and on-site consumption of cannabis in licensed businesses. Accompanying cannabis, some legalization has acknowledged that black and brown communities were disproportionately impacted by the war on drugs. To address this, social equity provisions have been a component of their public po…
Rethinking demolition plans to fight neighborhood blight in shrinking cities
Spatial clustering of property abandonment in shrinking cities
Many low-income and minority-concentrated neighborhoods have been struggling for decades with the acute problem of endemic abandonment in shrinking cities. Using high-resolution spatial–temporal data, this study attempts to extend our understanding of the influence of abandonment on future abandonment and the impact of interventions such as demolition by identifying spatial patterns of housing abandonment and demolition in Buffalo, New York when …
Neighbourhood accessibility and walkability of subsidised housing in shrinking US cities
This article advances the discussion of subsidised housing and accessible and walkable neighbourhoods by focusing on the characteristics of cities experiencing population decline. We examine the neighbourhood context of subsidised housing with respect to walkability and accessibility in shrinking cities using Walk Score and a walkability index that considers the unique neighbourhood dynamics in these cities and access to anchor institutions and t…
Housing Choice Vouchers (HCVs) on the Geographic, Socio-economic, and Public Policy Periphery
This article examines the geographic and socio-economic distribution of housing choice vouchers (HCVs) in the city of San Diego, California. It focuses on how the concentration of HCVs on geographic, socio-economic, and public policy peripheries forms a nexus that limits housing options for low-income residents. The analysis is based on a unique database that combines three datasets. One includes data for 13,973 individual HCV recipients measurin…
The enduring backlash against racial justice in the United States
Rethinking shrinking cities
This review essay contextualizes the articles included in the Journal of Urban Affairs’ special issue on promoting social justice and equity in shrinking cities. It introduces a framework to guide the analysis of shrinking cities and the formulation of urban revitalization policies. The essay begins by anchoring the literature on shrinking cities to a broader critique on globalization. Following this discussion, the emergence of a new urban form,…
Promoting Social Justice and Equity in Shrinking Cities
Shrinking cities are a global phenomenon, with notable examples in Europe, North America, Asia, and other parts of the world. Past research has examined shrinking cities in reference to spatial pat
Are We Still Going Through the Empty Ritual of Participation? Inner-City Residents' and Other Grassroots Stakeholders' Perceptions of Public Input and Neighborhood Revitalization
This article revisits Arnstein's 'ladder of citizen participation' focusing on inner-city residents' perceptions of public input in neighborhood revitalization projects. It draws from data collected in Buffalo, New York for a larger project that aimed to address negative externalities caused by neighborhood change. Data were collected using focus groups in neighborhoods in the early stages of revitalization. Nine focus groups took place across th…
There goes our family friendly neighborhood
This article examines residents' perceptions of inner-city revitalization in legacy cities. The analysis focuses on neighborhoods undergoing revitalization in a legacy city, Buffalo, NY. The article draws from data for a larger research project called Turning the Corner which was sponsored by the Urban Institute. The focus of that project was to identify planning strategies to address negative externalities caused by neighborhood change and heigh…
Special Issue
In cities and settlements across the world, calls for equitable community development policy are unparalleled. [...]
The Impact of Single-Family Rental Reits on Regional Housing Markets
The U.S. Congress authorized the creation of real estate investment trusts (REITs) in 1960 so companies could develop publically traded real estate investment portfolios. REITs focus on commercial property, retail property, and rental property. During the last decade, REITs became more active in regional housing markets across the U.S. Single-family rental (SFR) REITs have grown tremendously, buying up residential properties across the country. I…
Model CBAs and Community Benefits Ordinances as Tools for Negotiating Equitable Development
Community benefits agreements (CBAs) allow coalitions of labor and grassroots organizations to negotiate for concessions in the development process. One goal of a CBA is to more broadly distribute the benefits of new development to distressed communities and historically disenfranchised groups. Since their emergence in the 1990s, CBAs have not been well institutionalized. To date, there have been roughly 30 CBAs adopted across the United States. …
Community benefits agreements (CBAs)
Purpose Community benefits agreements (CBAs) redistribute the benefits of new development to distressed communities and historically disenfranchised groups. They allow coalitions of labor and grassroots organizations to negotiate for concessions in the development process. Yet, CBAs are a relatively new tool used in planning and local economic development, and specification about their content and scope is evolving. Some of the earliest CBAs were…
Siting Affordable Housing in Opportunity Neighborhoods
In this article, we examine the content and structure of the new affirmatively furthering fair housing mapping tool (AFFH-T) developed by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as part of its new assessment of fair housing (AFH) process. Our analysis is focused on the degree to which the data included in the AFFH-T is suitable for the development of plans to site affordable housing in opportunity neighborhoods, and the utility o…
Neighborhood characteristics and the location of HUD-subsidized housing in shrinking cities
This article focuses on the manner in which affordable housing fits into anchor-based strategies for urban revitalization. It involves quantitative analysis of the location of existing HUD-subsidized housing in relation to neighborhood characteristics. The goal of the article is twofold. First, we examine the degree to which neighborhood characteristics associated with neighborhoods of opportunity correlate with the location of HUD-subsidized hou…
Urban Policy Without Broaching the Topic of Race, Really? Response to David Imbroscio’s “Urban Policy as Meritocracy
Moving Beyond the Great Recession
More than 50 years after Lyndon Baines Johnson’s declaration of a War on Poverty and 7 years after the official end of the Great Recession, we find that US poverty rates hover around 15% and the ga
A Community Partnership to Respond to an Outbreak
The NCDOH's multisector partnership with hospitals, physicians, and community organizations to address the H1N1influenza pandemic was nontraditional and allowed for leveraging of public health resources. The three-phase model can be replicated for future infectious disease outbreaks
Climbing Mount Laurel
William Worthy’s Concept of “Institutional Rape” Revisited
This article examines the role of anchor institutions in the urban revitalization process. We use case study analysis to understand how concerns about residential displacement are addressed by anchor institutions in the urban planning process. This analysis is designed to build upon William Worthy’s critique of anchor-based development during the 1960s and 1970s. Our analysis examines the degree to which his concept of “institutional rape” applie…
Dawn of the Dead City
This article examines residential vacancy patterns in Buffalo, NY, using data from a unique data set. It includes variables from HUD Aggregate USPS Administrative Data on Address Vacancies, the American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates for 2005–2009, housing choice voucher (HCV) records of local public housing agencies, and municipal in rem property records. Multiple regression is used to identify significant relationships between vacancy …
Networked Urbanism
William Worthy’s Concept of “Institutional Rape” Revisited
This article examines the role of anchor institutions in the urban revitalization process. We use case study analysis to understand how concerns about residential displacement are addressed by anchor institutions in the urban planning process. This analysis is designed to build upon William Worthy’s critique of anchor-based development during the 1960s and 1970s. Our analysis examines the degree to which his concept of “institutional rape” applie…
Model CBAs and Community Benefits Ordinances as Tools for Negotiating Equitable Development
Community benefits agreements (CBAs) allow coalitions of labor and grassroots organizations to negotiate for concessions in the development process. One goal of a CBA is to more broadly distribute the benefits of new development to distressed communities and historically disenfranchised groups. Since their emergence in the 1990s, CBAs have not been well institutionalized. To date, there have been roughly 30 CBAs adopted across the United States. …
CDCs and Charitable Organizations in the Urban South
This article examines how community development corporations (CDCs) and other nonprofits access social capital when constructing collaborative partnerships for urban revitalization projects. Data from interviews with the directors of CDCs and charitable organizations in Jackson, Mississippi, are used for the analysis in this research. The findings indicate that the organizations studied mobilize two mutually exclusive forms of social capital when…
The Influence of Nonprofit Networks on Local Affordable Housing Funding
This article examines public administrators' perceptions of the effects of nonprofit networks on local affordable housing decisions. It builds on a larger body of research concerning the affordable housing activities of community-based organizations (CBOs). This analysis is based on a national survey of public administrators responsible for affordable housing programs in U.S. cities with populations over 100,000. The survey included questions abo…
Neighborhood characteristics and the location of HUD-subsidized housing in shrinking cities
This article focuses on the manner in which affordable housing fits into anchor-based strategies for urban revitalization. It involves quantitative analysis of the location of existing HUD-subsidized housing in relation to neighborhood characteristics. The goal of the article is twofold. First, we examine the degree to which neighborhood characteristics associated with neighborhoods of opportunity correlate with the location of HUD-subsidized hou…
Making Waves or Treading Water? An Analysis of Charter Schools in New York State
This article compares charter schools and other public schools in New York State. School Report Card (SRC) data measuring student, teacher, and school characteristics from the state’s 16 urban school districts with charter schools were examined. Descriptive and multivariate analysis was used. The findings suggest that there are more similarities in student outcomes between charter schools and other public schools than differences. Although charte…
The Four Horsemen of the Fair Housing Apocalypse
This article examines US fair housing policy from a critical perspective. We describe the impact of the expansion of neoliberal ideology on the fair housing assistance program (FHAP), the fair housing initiatives program (FHIP), and the scope of US Department of Justice activities. Prior findings from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and IRS Form 990 are summarized. We argue that neoliberalism has contributed to the underd…
The enduring backlash against racial justice in the United States
Urban Education and Neighborhood Revitalization
Are We Still Going Through the Empty Ritual of Participation? Inner-City Residents' and Other Grassroots Stakeholders' Perceptions of Public Input and Neighborhood Revitalization
This article revisits Arnstein's 'ladder of citizen participation' focusing on inner-city residents' perceptions of public input in neighborhood revitalization projects. It draws from data collected in Buffalo, New York for a larger project that aimed to address negative externalities caused by neighborhood change. Data were collected using focus groups in neighborhoods in the early stages of revitalization. Nine focus groups took place across th…
There goes our family friendly neighborhood
This article examines residents' perceptions of inner-city revitalization in legacy cities. The analysis focuses on neighborhoods undergoing revitalization in a legacy city, Buffalo, NY. The article draws from data for a larger research project called Turning the Corner which was sponsored by the Urban Institute. The focus of that project was to identify planning strategies to address negative externalities caused by neighborhood change and heigh…
Sandwiched between Patronage and Bureaucracy
This article examines how directors of community-based housing organisations (CBHOs) in the US define the role of citizen participation in their organisations. In particular, it describes how local political and administrative structures affect the scope of citizen participation in the governance and decision-making processes of CBHOs. This is an important topic since these organisations implement housing and community development programmes in u…
The role of citizen participation and action research principles in Main Street revitalization
This article examines the use of citizen participation techniques during the planning process for neighborhood revitalization in the Village of Depew which is an industrial suburb of Buffalo, New York. The article focuses on how action research principles can inform and enhance traditional approaches to citizen participation. In particular, we discuss our role as university-based consultants in the local planning process and how drawing from acti…
Bargaining for Brooklyn
Progressive Reform, Gender and Institutional Structure
This article examines the institutional context in which community-based organisations are embedded. Two emergent themes in the literature on community development are examined critically: the woman-centred model for community organising; and the thesis concerning the community development industry system. The analysis is based upon data from field research with community development corporations (CDC) in Detroit, Michigan. The findings from this…
Ethnic Solidarity and Black Business
This paper examines the development of a separate economic niche for black entrepreneurs in Chicago's ethnic beauty aids industry. It argues that this economic niche developed in response to advantages black entrepreneurs had in mobilizing ethnic resources in the black community. The paper's findings lend support to general theoretical arguments stating that ethnicity, race, and other symbols for identity function as low-cost screening devices fo…
The Impact of Single-Family Rental Reits on Regional Housing Markets
The U.S. Congress authorized the creation of real estate investment trusts (REITs) in 1960 so companies could develop publically traded real estate investment portfolios. REITs focus on commercial property, retail property, and rental property. During the last decade, REITs became more active in regional housing markets across the U.S. Single-family rental (SFR) REITs have grown tremendously, buying up residential properties across the country. I…
Community benefits agreements (CBAs)
Purpose Community benefits agreements (CBAs) redistribute the benefits of new development to distressed communities and historically disenfranchised groups. They allow coalitions of labor and grassroots organizations to negotiate for concessions in the development process. Yet, CBAs are a relatively new tool used in planning and local economic development, and specification about their content and scope is evolving. Some of the earliest CBAs were…
Siting Affordable Housing in Opportunity Neighborhoods
In this article, we examine the content and structure of the new affirmatively furthering fair housing mapping tool (AFFH-T) developed by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as part of its new assessment of fair housing (AFH) process. Our analysis is focused on the degree to which the data included in the AFFH-T is suitable for the development of plans to site affordable housing in opportunity neighborhoods, and the utility o…
Urban Policy Without Broaching the Topic of Race, Really? Response to David Imbroscio’s “Urban Policy as Meritocracy
The Nonprofitization of Public Education
This article examines charter schools applying a nonprofit conceptual frame of reference. The proliferation of charter schools is framed as a form of nonprofitization of public education. The implications of this trend are discussed. This discussion is contextualized through an examination of charter schools in New York. The case analysis is supported with data from the New York State Department of Education, the US Census Public Education Financ…
The Effects of Racism and Racial Discrimination on Minority Business Development
Journal Article The Effects of Racism and Racial Discrimination on Minority Business Development: The Case of Black Manufacturers in Chicago's Ethnic Beauty Aids Industry Get access Robert Mark Silverman Robert Mark Silverman University of WisconsinMilwaukee, Department of SociologyMilwaukee, WI 53201 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 31, Issue 3, Spring 1998, Pages 571–597,…
Aboriginal Peoples and Canadian Criminal Justice
National Advertising in Newspapers
Journal Article National Advertising in Newspapers Get access National Advertising in Newspapers. By NEIL H. BORDEN, MALCOLM D. TAYLOR and HOWARD T. HOVDE. (Cambridge : Harvard University Press (Oxford University Press), 1946. Pp. xiv + 486. 28s.) R. Silverman R. Silverman National Institute of Economic and Social Research, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 57, Issue 226, …
Aboriginal Peoples and Canadian Criminal Justice
The Effects of Racism and Racial Discrimination on Minority Business Development
Journal Article The Effects of Racism and Racial Discrimination on Minority Business Development: The Case of Black Manufacturers in Chicago's Ethnic Beauty Aids Industry Get access Robert Mark Silverman Robert Mark Silverman University of WisconsinMilwaukee, Department of SociologyMilwaukee, WI 53201 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 31, Issue 3, Spring 1998, Pages 571–597,…
Black Business, Group Resources, and the Economic Detour
This article examines the experiences and attitudes of contemporary Black manufacturers in the ethnic beauty aids industry. This industry produces specialized haircare products and cosmetics for Black consumers. Although this article focuses on owners of manufacturing businesses in a single industry, it is important because Black manufacturers have historically been active in the ethnic beauty aids industry. The historical embeddedness of Black m…
Ethnic Solidarity and Black Business
This paper examines the development of a separate economic niche for black entrepreneurs in Chicago's ethnic beauty aids industry. It argues that this economic niche developed in response to advantages black entrepreneurs had in mobilizing ethnic resources in the black community. The paper's findings lend support to general theoretical arguments stating that ethnicity, race, and other symbols for identity function as low-cost screening devices fo…
CDCs and Charitable Organizations in the Urban South
This article examines how community development corporations (CDCs) and other nonprofits access social capital when constructing collaborative partnerships for urban revitalization projects. Data from interviews with the directors of CDCs and charitable organizations in Jackson, Mississippi, are used for the analysis in this research. The findings indicate that the organizations studied mobilize two mutually exclusive forms of social capital when…
Social capital and community
This is a brief examination of this special issues contents with regard to the articles on social capital and community‐based organizations
Problem of the Century
Vying for the Urban Poor
In this article the mobilization of social capital is examined as it relates to the formation of collaborative partnerships among charitable organizations. It is argued that social capital, expressed through social ties and mutual trust, forms the foundation for such partnerships. Specifically, collaborative activities built upon religiously based social capital mobilized among charitable organizations are focused upon in this study. The extensiv…
Progressive Reform, Gender and Institutional Structure
This article examines the institutional context in which community-based organisations are embedded. Two emergent themes in the literature on community development are examined critically: the woman-centred model for community organising; and the thesis concerning the community development industry system. The analysis is based upon data from field research with community development corporations (CDC) in Detroit, Michigan. The findings from this…
Community socioeconomic status and disparities in mortgage lending
This note examines the effects of community socioeconomic status on mortgage lending patterns in Metropolitan Detroit. Data from 2000 HMDA reports and the 2000 U.S. Census are analyzed using multiple regression. The results from this analysis have two important implications for research on mortgage lending. First, they indicate that the effects of variables linked to a community's socioeconomic status on mortgage lending patterns are highly inter…
Introduction
Central city socio‐economic characteristics and public participation strategies
Purpose This article aims to examine the mechanisms used by municipalities to stimulate public participation and, in part, to argue that contrasts between the socio‐economic make‐up of central cities in the USA and Canada explain these divergent techniques. Design/methodology/approach The article is based on a survey of planning departments measuring the types of public participation strategies used by local governments. Findings The article's fi…
Building a Better Neighborhood Housing Partnership
Prior research has examined the role of intermediary organizations in affordable housing development and community-based housing organization (CBHO) capacity building. This article built on this work by examining an applied research project aimed at assessing the feasibility of creating a neighborhood housing partnership (NHP) organization in Buffalo, New York NHPs are nonprofit umbrella organizations created through public-private partnerships. …
The Influence of Nonprofit Networks on Local Affordable Housing Funding
This article examines public administrators' perceptions of the effects of nonprofit networks on local affordable housing decisions. It builds on a larger body of research concerning the affordable housing activities of community-based organizations (CBOs). This analysis is based on a national survey of public administrators responsible for affordable housing programs in U.S. cities with populations over 100,000. The survey included questions abo…
The role of citizen participation and action research principles in Main Street revitalization
This article examines the use of citizen participation techniques during the planning process for neighborhood revitalization in the Village of Depew which is an industrial suburb of Buffalo, New York. The article focuses on how action research principles can inform and enhance traditional approaches to citizen participation. In particular, we discuss our role as university-based consultants in the local planning process and how drawing from acti…
Bargaining for Brooklyn
Sandwiched between Patronage and Bureaucracy
This article examines how directors of community-based housing organisations (CBHOs) in the US define the role of citizen participation in their organisations. In particular, it describes how local political and administrative structures affect the scope of citizen participation in the governance and decision-making processes of CBHOs. This is an important topic since these organisations implement housing and community development programmes in u…
Networked Urbanism
Boomburbs
Boomburbs: the rise of America's accidental cities, by Robert E. Lang and Jennifer B. LeFurgy, Washington, DC, Brookings Institution Press, 2007, 212 pp., US$22.95 (paperback), ISBN-10 0815703031
Black Real Estate Professionals' Perceptions of Career Opportunities
This article focuses on black professionals' perceptions of career opportunities in the real estate industry and discrimination in housing markets. The analysis is based on a national survey of black real estate professionals administered between July and December of 2009. Findings from the article suggest that black real estate professionals adopt a business strategy scholars have referred to as the economic detour. Following this strategy, thei…
The Nonprofitization of Public Education
This article examines charter schools applying a nonprofit conceptual frame of reference. The proliferation of charter schools is framed as a form of nonprofitization of public education. The implications of this trend are discussed. This discussion is contextualized through an examination of charter schools in New York. The case analysis is supported with data from the New York State Department of Education, the US Census Public Education Financ…
Themed issue on inner-city empowerment and revitalization
Historically, the community development field has focused on addressing the needs of inner-city neighborhoods. Although other areas of inquiry examined by community development researchers and prof
Dawn of the Dead City
This article examines residential vacancy patterns in Buffalo, NY, using data from a unique data set. It includes variables from HUD Aggregate USPS Administrative Data on Address Vacancies, the American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates for 2005–2009, housing choice voucher (HCV) records of local public housing agencies, and municipal in rem property records. Multiple regression is used to identify significant relationships between vacancy …
The Four Horsemen of the Fair Housing Apocalypse
This article examines US fair housing policy from a critical perspective. We describe the impact of the expansion of neoliberal ideology on the fair housing assistance program (FHAP), the fair housing initiatives program (FHIP), and the scope of US Department of Justice activities. Prior findings from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and IRS Form 990 are summarized. We argue that neoliberalism has contributed to the underd…
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