Daniel Benjamin Abramson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1680635 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Benjamin Abramson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Abramson |
| SIGNATURE | ABRAMSON D B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5070-8619 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
How Right-of-Way Adaptations Support Urban Resilience
On your own, together
When disasters isolate communities from external support, their members must turn to each other for mutual assistance. This study explores (1) resource management, (2) information sharing, and (3) community leadership and civic participation as dimensions of peer-to-peer sharing for more efficient distribution of local resources under "islanded" conditions. Interviews with members and leaders of three neighborhood-scale communities in Washington …
Understanding the role of individual- and community-based resources in disaster preparedness
Factors Influencing Willingness to Share Resources Postdisaster
When large-scale disasters occur, people often are left on their own to seek critical resources: food, water, medications, and other important items. Historically, government agencies have developed disaster preparedness strategies focused primarily on either the level of the individual or household or on the ability of government agents to provide relief to affected areas. Such approaches do not consider the potential for community members to sh…
Ancient and current resilience in the Chengdu Plain
The Dujiangyan irrigation system, China’s largest, is one of the world’s most important examples of sustainable agropolitan development, maintained by a relatively decentralised system of governance that minimises bureaucratic oversight and depends on significant local autonomy at many scales down to the household. At its historic core in the Chengdu Plain, the system has supported over 2000 years of near-continuously stable urban culture, as wel…
The Meaning of Growth
A Long View of Resilience in the Chengdu Plain, China
The Chengdu Plain is an agroecosystem that depends on the Dujiangyan (Capital River Weir) for its functioning. This system has been sustained at high levels of productivity for more than two thousand years, experiencing only a few disturbances that have disrupted its functioning. Integrating field and documentary research on ecological, market, and governance factors, this article discusses the remarkable resilience of this system from the late Q…
Periurbanization and the politics of development-as-city-building in China
Transitional Property Rights and Local Developmental History in China
Among the societies that are moving from a centrally planned economy with weak property rights towards a market-oriented economy with stronger and more privatised property rights, China is undergoing an especially rapid and extensive urbanisation that obscures the diversity and relevance of local pre-Reform property arrangements. Official discourse emphasises the formalisation, clarification and, to some extent, the privatisation of property righ…
Places for the Gods
Among the many revivals of older urban practices in China since the death of Mao and the Reforms of Deng Xiaoping is the resurgence of unofficial folk-religious space. As a national phenomenon, it is an uneven process, but where it has become prevalent, it presents challenges both to official standard urban-planning practice, as well as to the public presentation of planning practice. This paper describes how nonstandard practices can emerge in t…
"Urban-Rural Integration" in the Earthquake Zone
One of the more recent movements in China’s policy for periurban planning and development is the pursuit of “town and country integration” (cheng xiang yi ti hua). The officially reframed approach to planning suggests possibilities for the official reconsideration of developmental practice, but entrenched conditions of governance, land, environmental and developmental policy, and the planning profession itself constrain these possibilities. Perha…
Using GIS in community design charrettes
The “Studio Abroad” as a Mode of Transcultural Engagement in Urban Planning Education
This article reviews the dynamics and achievements of a ten-year series of collaborative planning studios and field research between faculty and students from urban planning and design programs in Canadian and Chinese universities, with additional perspective gained by observations of other collaborations. Focusing on the pedagogical and cross-cultural communicative aspects of the experience, the article suggests some key features of successful i…
The Chinese City in Space and Time
Marketization’ and institutions in Chinese inner-city redevelopment
Periurbanization and the politics of development-as-city-building in China
Places for the Gods
Among the many revivals of older urban practices in China since the death of Mao and the Reforms of Deng Xiaoping is the resurgence of unofficial folk-religious space. As a national phenomenon, it is an uneven process, but where it has become prevalent, it presents challenges both to official standard urban-planning practice, as well as to the public presentation of planning practice. This paper describes how nonstandard practices can emerge in t…
"Urban-Rural Integration" in the Earthquake Zone
One of the more recent movements in China’s policy for periurban planning and development is the pursuit of “town and country integration” (cheng xiang yi ti hua). The officially reframed approach to planning suggests possibilities for the official reconsideration of developmental practice, but entrenched conditions of governance, land, environmental and developmental policy, and the planning profession itself constrain these possibilities. Perha…
Marketization’ and institutions in Chinese inner-city redevelopment
Transitional Property Rights and Local Developmental History in China
Among the societies that are moving from a centrally planned economy with weak property rights towards a market-oriented economy with stronger and more privatised property rights, China is undergoing an especially rapid and extensive urbanisation that obscures the diversity and relevance of local pre-Reform property arrangements. Official discourse emphasises the formalisation, clarification and, to some extent, the privatisation of property righ…
On your own, together
When disasters isolate communities from external support, their members must turn to each other for mutual assistance. This study explores (1) resource management, (2) information sharing, and (3) community leadership and civic participation as dimensions of peer-to-peer sharing for more efficient distribution of local resources under "islanded" conditions. Interviews with members and leaders of three neighborhood-scale communities in Washington …
A Long View of Resilience in the Chengdu Plain, China
The Chengdu Plain is an agroecosystem that depends on the Dujiangyan (Capital River Weir) for its functioning. This system has been sustained at high levels of productivity for more than two thousand years, experiencing only a few disturbances that have disrupted its functioning. Integrating field and documentary research on ecological, market, and governance factors, this article discusses the remarkable resilience of this system from the late Q…
Using GIS in community design charrettes
The “Studio Abroad” as a Mode of Transcultural Engagement in Urban Planning Education
This article reviews the dynamics and achievements of a ten-year series of collaborative planning studios and field research between faculty and students from urban planning and design programs in Canadian and Chinese universities, with additional perspective gained by observations of other collaborations. Focusing on the pedagogical and cross-cultural communicative aspects of the experience, the article suggests some key features of successful i…
Ancient and current resilience in the Chengdu Plain
The Dujiangyan irrigation system, China’s largest, is one of the world’s most important examples of sustainable agropolitan development, maintained by a relatively decentralised system of governance that minimises bureaucratic oversight and depends on significant local autonomy at many scales down to the household. At its historic core in the Chengdu Plain, the system has supported over 2000 years of near-continuously stable urban culture, as wel…
Marketization’ and institutions in Chinese inner-city redevelopment
The Chinese City in Space and Time
The “Studio Abroad” as a Mode of Transcultural Engagement in Urban Planning Education
This article reviews the dynamics and achievements of a ten-year series of collaborative planning studios and field research between faculty and students from urban planning and design programs in Canadian and Chinese universities, with additional perspective gained by observations of other collaborations. Focusing on the pedagogical and cross-cultural communicative aspects of the experience, the article suggests some key features of successful i…
Using GIS in community design charrettes
Transitional Property Rights and Local Developmental History in China
Among the societies that are moving from a centrally planned economy with weak property rights towards a market-oriented economy with stronger and more privatised property rights, China is undergoing an especially rapid and extensive urbanisation that obscures the diversity and relevance of local pre-Reform property arrangements. Official discourse emphasises the formalisation, clarification and, to some extent, the privatisation of property righ…
Places for the Gods
Among the many revivals of older urban practices in China since the death of Mao and the Reforms of Deng Xiaoping is the resurgence of unofficial folk-religious space. As a national phenomenon, it is an uneven process, but where it has become prevalent, it presents challenges both to official standard urban-planning practice, as well as to the public presentation of planning practice. This paper describes how nonstandard practices can emerge in t…
"Urban-Rural Integration" in the Earthquake Zone
One of the more recent movements in China’s policy for periurban planning and development is the pursuit of “town and country integration” (cheng xiang yi ti hua). The officially reframed approach to planning suggests possibilities for the official reconsideration of developmental practice, but entrenched conditions of governance, land, environmental and developmental policy, and the planning profession itself constrain these possibilities. Perha…
Periurbanization and the politics of development-as-city-building in China
The Meaning of Growth
A Long View of Resilience in the Chengdu Plain, China
The Chengdu Plain is an agroecosystem that depends on the Dujiangyan (Capital River Weir) for its functioning. This system has been sustained at high levels of productivity for more than two thousand years, experiencing only a few disturbances that have disrupted its functioning. Integrating field and documentary research on ecological, market, and governance factors, this article discusses the remarkable resilience of this system from the late Q…
Ancient and current resilience in the Chengdu Plain
The Dujiangyan irrigation system, China’s largest, is one of the world’s most important examples of sustainable agropolitan development, maintained by a relatively decentralised system of governance that minimises bureaucratic oversight and depends on significant local autonomy at many scales down to the household. At its historic core in the Chengdu Plain, the system has supported over 2000 years of near-continuously stable urban culture, as wel…
Understanding the role of individual- and community-based resources in disaster preparedness
Factors Influencing Willingness to Share Resources Postdisaster
When large-scale disasters occur, people often are left on their own to seek critical resources: food, water, medications, and other important items. Historically, government agencies have developed disaster preparedness strategies focused primarily on either the level of the individual or household or on the ability of government agents to provide relief to affected areas. Such approaches do not consider the potential for community members to sh…
On your own, together
When disasters isolate communities from external support, their members must turn to each other for mutual assistance. This study explores (1) resource management, (2) information sharing, and (3) community leadership and civic participation as dimensions of peer-to-peer sharing for more efficient distribution of local resources under "islanded" conditions. Interviews with members and leaders of three neighborhood-scale communities in Washington …
How Right-of-Way Adaptations Support Urban Resilience
Economic growth (9 works) · Economics (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (7 works) · China (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Urban planning (6 works) · Business (4 works) · Civil engineering (4 works)