Lisa J Servon
Biographic Data
| ID | 278949 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa J Servon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa J |
| FAMILY NAME | Servon |
| SIGNATURE | SERVON L J |
| AFFILIATIONS | New School |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Gender and Financialization of the Criminal Justice System
(1) The increase in women’s mass incarceration over the past forty years raises questions about how justice-involved women experience the financial aspects of the criminal justice system. (2) We conducted in-depth interviews with twenty justice-involved women and seven criminal law and reentry professionals, and conducted courtroom observations in southeastern Pennsylvania. (3) The results from this exploratory research reveal that women’s roles …
Are Payday Loans Harmful to Consumers
Are Payday Loans Harmful to Consumers? Response to Horowitz
Cittaslow: Going Glocal in Spain
Concerns about the long-term effects of development based on pro-growth capitalism and the perceived homogenizing effects of globalization have given rise to movements, such as Cittaslow (the Slow City movement), that promote alternative strategies. These movements, which exist primarily in smaller cities and towns, focus on locality, the ordinariness of place, and sustainable, homegrown economies. We make two related arguments. First, we argue t…
Sensory Global Towns: An Experiential Approach to the Growth of the Slow City Movement
This paper explores, through the example of the Slow City (Cittaslow) movement, how an analytical focus on the experiential dimensions of urban experience adds new layers of knowledge to our understandings of how and why town leaders engage with urban frameworks and principles. The global growth of the Italian-based Cittaslow movement has been explained both as part of a deceleration narrative and as a transferable urban development framework. We…
Estimating the capital gap for small businesses in New York city
Previous research suggests that inefficiencies in the small business market exist surrounding the availability of capital by Small and Microenterprises (SMMEs). Using data from the 1992 Characteristics of Business Owners Survey (CBO), the 2002 Survey of Business Owners (SBO), and the 2003 Survey of Small Business Finance (SSBF) this paper empirically estimates the "capital gap"- that is the unmet capital demand for business by SMMEs. We find that…
The Role of Community Technology Centers in Promoting Youth Development
Recent data suggest that the digital divide between White and minority youth persists, particularly in terms of home access to computers and the Internet. Community technology centers (CTCs) are an important alterative access point, especially for low-income youth of color. Such institutions, however, do much more, providing not just access, but general youth development, including the opportunity for youth to voice their stories, contribute to c…
Vernacular Culture and Urban Economic Development: Thinking Outside the (Big) Box
Problem: This article addresses the increasing homogeneity of urban commercial areas and the loss of local culture associated with this trend. It seeks to identify strategies that build effectively on vernacular culture as an asset in neighborhood development. Purpose: We aim to identify tools that advance the cultural preservation approach to urban economic development and to describe instances in which planners and neighborhood groups have appl…
CDCs and the Changing Context for Urban Community Development: A Review of the Field and the Environment
This review takes Rebuilding Communities as a starting point to survey the community development literature, the community development field, and external environmental factors, in order to examine what has happened over the past fifteen years to shape the context in which urban community development corporations (CDCs) now operate. This paper is both a bounded literature review and an environmental scan. We identify categories of changes and inf…
Bridging the Digital Divide: Technology, Community, and Public Policy
Bridging the Digital Divide: Technology, Community, and Public Policy
Community Technology Centers: Narrowing the Digital Divide in Low-Income, Urban Communities
As access to information technology (IT) and the ability to use it increasingly become part of the toolkit necessary to participate and prosper in an information-based society, many fear that the IT revolution is bypassing low-income, urban communities. In the absence of comprehensive public or private efforts to close the technology gap, community technology centers (CTCs) have emerged at the grassroots level. The purpose of this article is to d…
Community Technology Centers and the Urban Technology Gap
Urban poverty and access to information technology: A role for local government
(1997). Urban poverty and access to information technology: A role for local government. Journal of Urban Technology: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 61-81
Community Technology Centers: Narrowing the Digital Divide in Low-Income, Urban Communities
As access to information technology (IT) and the ability to use it increasingly become part of the toolkit necessary to participate and prosper in an information-based society, many fear that the IT revolution is bypassing low-income, urban communities. In the absence of comprehensive public or private efforts to close the technology gap, community technology centers (CTCs) have emerged at the grassroots level. The purpose of this article is to d…
Sensory Global Towns: An Experiential Approach to the Growth of the Slow City Movement
This paper explores, through the example of the Slow City (Cittaslow) movement, how an analytical focus on the experiential dimensions of urban experience adds new layers of knowledge to our understandings of how and why town leaders engage with urban frameworks and principles. The global growth of the Italian-based Cittaslow movement has been explained both as part of a deceleration narrative and as a transferable urban development framework. We…
The Role of Community Technology Centers in Promoting Youth Development
Recent data suggest that the digital divide between White and minority youth persists, particularly in terms of home access to computers and the Internet. Community technology centers (CTCs) are an important alterative access point, especially for low-income youth of color. Such institutions, however, do much more, providing not just access, but general youth development, including the opportunity for youth to voice their stories, contribute to c…
Community Technology Centers and the Urban Technology Gap
Are Payday Loans Harmful to Consumers
Cittaslow: Going Glocal in Spain
Concerns about the long-term effects of development based on pro-growth capitalism and the perceived homogenizing effects of globalization have given rise to movements, such as Cittaslow (the Slow City movement), that promote alternative strategies. These movements, which exist primarily in smaller cities and towns, focus on locality, the ordinariness of place, and sustainable, homegrown economies. We make two related arguments. First, we argue t…
Gender and Financialization of the Criminal Justice System
(1) The increase in women’s mass incarceration over the past forty years raises questions about how justice-involved women experience the financial aspects of the criminal justice system. (2) We conducted in-depth interviews with twenty justice-involved women and seven criminal law and reentry professionals, and conducted courtroom observations in southeastern Pennsylvania. (3) The results from this exploratory research reveal that women’s roles …
Urban poverty and access to information technology: A role for local government
(1997). Urban poverty and access to information technology: A role for local government. Journal of Urban Technology: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 61-81
Community Technology Centers: Narrowing the Digital Divide in Low-Income, Urban Communities
As access to information technology (IT) and the ability to use it increasingly become part of the toolkit necessary to participate and prosper in an information-based society, many fear that the IT revolution is bypassing low-income, urban communities. In the absence of comprehensive public or private efforts to close the technology gap, community technology centers (CTCs) have emerged at the grassroots level. The purpose of this article is to d…
Community Technology Centers and the Urban Technology Gap
Bridging the Digital Divide: Technology, Community, and Public Policy
Bridging the Digital Divide: Technology, Community, and Public Policy
CDCs and the Changing Context for Urban Community Development: A Review of the Field and the Environment
This review takes Rebuilding Communities as a starting point to survey the community development literature, the community development field, and external environmental factors, in order to examine what has happened over the past fifteen years to shape the context in which urban community development corporations (CDCs) now operate. This paper is both a bounded literature review and an environmental scan. We identify categories of changes and inf…
Vernacular Culture and Urban Economic Development: Thinking Outside the (Big) Box
Problem: This article addresses the increasing homogeneity of urban commercial areas and the loss of local culture associated with this trend. It seeks to identify strategies that build effectively on vernacular culture as an asset in neighborhood development. Purpose: We aim to identify tools that advance the cultural preservation approach to urban economic development and to describe instances in which planners and neighborhood groups have appl…
The Role of Community Technology Centers in Promoting Youth Development
Recent data suggest that the digital divide between White and minority youth persists, particularly in terms of home access to computers and the Internet. Community technology centers (CTCs) are an important alterative access point, especially for low-income youth of color. Such institutions, however, do much more, providing not just access, but general youth development, including the opportunity for youth to voice their stories, contribute to c…
Estimating the capital gap for small businesses in New York city
Previous research suggests that inefficiencies in the small business market exist surrounding the availability of capital by Small and Microenterprises (SMMEs). Using data from the 1992 Characteristics of Business Owners Survey (CBO), the 2002 Survey of Business Owners (SBO), and the 2003 Survey of Small Business Finance (SSBF) this paper empirically estimates the "capital gap"- that is the unmet capital demand for business by SMMEs. We find that…
Sensory Global Towns: An Experiential Approach to the Growth of the Slow City Movement
This paper explores, through the example of the Slow City (Cittaslow) movement, how an analytical focus on the experiential dimensions of urban experience adds new layers of knowledge to our understandings of how and why town leaders engage with urban frameworks and principles. The global growth of the Italian-based Cittaslow movement has been explained both as part of a deceleration narrative and as a transferable urban development framework. We…
Cittaslow: Going Glocal in Spain
Concerns about the long-term effects of development based on pro-growth capitalism and the perceived homogenizing effects of globalization have given rise to movements, such as Cittaslow (the Slow City movement), that promote alternative strategies. These movements, which exist primarily in smaller cities and towns, focus on locality, the ordinariness of place, and sustainable, homegrown economies. We make two related arguments. First, we argue t…
Are Payday Loans Harmful to Consumers
Are Payday Loans Harmful to Consumers? Response to Horowitz
Gender and Financialization of the Criminal Justice System
(1) The increase in women’s mass incarceration over the past forty years raises questions about how justice-involved women experience the financial aspects of the criminal justice system. (2) We conducted in-depth interviews with twenty justice-involved women and seven criminal law and reentry professionals, and conducted courtroom observations in southeastern Pennsylvania. (3) The results from this exploratory research reveal that women’s roles …
Sociology (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Citation (3 works) · Digital divide (3 works)