Ariel H Bierbaum
Biographic Data
| ID | 4217647 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ariel H Bierbaum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ariel H |
| FAMILY NAME | Bierbaum |
| SIGNATURE | BIERBAUM A H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6659-8082 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Leveraging Community Schools for Community Development
This study leverages data collected from a study of Baltimore's 21 st Century School Buildings Program to understand the potential of a school facilities investment to catalyze community development. We leverage a school-community partnership typology to examine partnerships at 21CSBP schools in three neighborhoods. We found that schools provided critical resources to their school and place-based communities and were linked to community developme…
School-Centered Community Development and a Quest for Spatial Justice
The role of public education and schools in the struggle for spatial justice is underappreciated because school and neighborhood improvement have largely been viewed as distinct processes. This article builds a conceptual and empirical argument to explore the intersections of spatial and educational justice specifically in community development practice. We draw on qualitative data collected from a study of Baltimore’s twenty-first Century School…
School-centered community development
This article uses the case of Baltimore’s 21st Century School Buildings Program (21CSBP) to investigate the potential of leveraging a school facilities investment for community development. We find that school facilities investments have the potential to catalyze community development along four domains: social, institutional, economic, and physical. However, existing market conditions and community trust and social cohesion can facilitate or con…
School desegregation, school re-zoning, and growth management in two Maryland counties
This article examines how school and non-school policies interact to reinforce or disrupt school segregation in the context of suburban communities and how these systems are maintained by structural and institutional mechanisms. Methodologically, we use a case study approach to delve deeply into the interpretation and implementation of school attendance zone redesign and non-school policies, specifically land use policies and tools. We draw on ne…
Toward Mobility Justice
Problem, research strategy, and findings Transportation equity research addresses questions of participation and planning process or the distribution of transportation’s benefits and burdens. This work largely elides issues related to youth and student travel. Existing work on school trip mode choice does not engage deeply with the equity implications of its findings. Education equity researchers identify the abstract notion of choice as equity e…
News Media’s Democratic Functions in Public Education
Many school districts have closed public schools, despite opposition. The controversial nature of closures has inspired extensive newspaper coverage. This article addresses two questions: How do newspaper media frame public school closures? To what extent does this coverage fulfill media’s democratic functions? I examine coverage of school closures in 13 cities between 2005 and 2013. Across coverage of pre-closure catalysts, decision-making proce…
Managing shrinkage by “right-sizing” schools
This article situates school facilities management decisions—specifically school closures and building disposition—in the shrinking cities discourse as a first step toward better understanding and managing shrinkage as a multi-sectoral and multi-scalar phenomenon. I ask: how do school closure and disposition decisions respond to and perpetuate shrinkage? First, I present gaps and connections across prior empirical work on shrinkage and that of sc…
Gentrification, Displacement, and the Role of Public Investment
Scholarly interest in the relationship between public investments and residential displacement dates back to the 1970s and the aftermath of displacement related to urban renewal. A new wave of scholarship examines the relationship of gentrification and displacement to public investment in transit infrastructure. Scholarship has generally conflated gentrification and displacement; however, this review argues for a clearer analytical distinction be…
School Closures and the Contested Unmaking of Philadelphia’s Neighborhoods
This article presents an analysis of how people make sense of Philadelphia’s school closings in light of neighborhood change. I argue that as school districts make facilities decisions, they act as planners, legitimizing closure decisions and their racially disparate impacts by reifying quantitative metrics at the expense of meanings that residents use to understand schools. Considering schools as redevelopment sites in a larger urban context rev…
Qualitative Spaces
Spatial context matters for qualitative social science inquiry. Yet, the explicit and consistent integration of these analyses has largely been segregated to the spatial sciences, geography and urban planning. In this article, we present a theoretical argument for integrating spatial data in qualitative inquiry and strategies for how to triangulate spatial and qualitative data. We argue that including spatial analyses in inquiries of social pheno…
School Closures and the Contested Unmaking of Philadelphia’s Neighborhoods
This article presents an analysis of how people make sense of Philadelphia’s school closings in light of neighborhood change. I argue that as school districts make facilities decisions, they act as planners, legitimizing closure decisions and their racially disparate impacts by reifying quantitative metrics at the expense of meanings that residents use to understand schools. Considering schools as redevelopment sites in a larger urban context rev…
Managing shrinkage by “right-sizing” schools
This article situates school facilities management decisions—specifically school closures and building disposition—in the shrinking cities discourse as a first step toward better understanding and managing shrinkage as a multi-sectoral and multi-scalar phenomenon. I ask: how do school closure and disposition decisions respond to and perpetuate shrinkage? First, I present gaps and connections across prior empirical work on shrinkage and that of sc…
Qualitative Spaces
Spatial context matters for qualitative social science inquiry. Yet, the explicit and consistent integration of these analyses has largely been segregated to the spatial sciences, geography and urban planning. In this article, we present a theoretical argument for integrating spatial data in qualitative inquiry and strategies for how to triangulate spatial and qualitative data. We argue that including spatial analyses in inquiries of social pheno…
School-centered community development
This article uses the case of Baltimore’s 21st Century School Buildings Program (21CSBP) to investigate the potential of leveraging a school facilities investment for community development. We find that school facilities investments have the potential to catalyze community development along four domains: social, institutional, economic, and physical. However, existing market conditions and community trust and social cohesion can facilitate or con…
Leveraging Community Schools for Community Development
This study leverages data collected from a study of Baltimore's 21 st Century School Buildings Program to understand the potential of a school facilities investment to catalyze community development. We leverage a school-community partnership typology to examine partnerships at 21CSBP schools in three neighborhoods. We found that schools provided critical resources to their school and place-based communities and were linked to community developme…
News Media’s Democratic Functions in Public Education
Many school districts have closed public schools, despite opposition. The controversial nature of closures has inspired extensive newspaper coverage. This article addresses two questions: How do newspaper media frame public school closures? To what extent does this coverage fulfill media’s democratic functions? I examine coverage of school closures in 13 cities between 2005 and 2013. Across coverage of pre-closure catalysts, decision-making proce…
Qualitative Spaces
Spatial context matters for qualitative social science inquiry. Yet, the explicit and consistent integration of these analyses has largely been segregated to the spatial sciences, geography and urban planning. In this article, we present a theoretical argument for integrating spatial data in qualitative inquiry and strategies for how to triangulate spatial and qualitative data. We argue that including spatial analyses in inquiries of social pheno…
Gentrification, Displacement, and the Role of Public Investment
Scholarly interest in the relationship between public investments and residential displacement dates back to the 1970s and the aftermath of displacement related to urban renewal. A new wave of scholarship examines the relationship of gentrification and displacement to public investment in transit infrastructure. Scholarship has generally conflated gentrification and displacement; however, this review argues for a clearer analytical distinction be…
School Closures and the Contested Unmaking of Philadelphia’s Neighborhoods
This article presents an analysis of how people make sense of Philadelphia’s school closings in light of neighborhood change. I argue that as school districts make facilities decisions, they act as planners, legitimizing closure decisions and their racially disparate impacts by reifying quantitative metrics at the expense of meanings that residents use to understand schools. Considering schools as redevelopment sites in a larger urban context rev…
Managing shrinkage by “right-sizing” schools
This article situates school facilities management decisions—specifically school closures and building disposition—in the shrinking cities discourse as a first step toward better understanding and managing shrinkage as a multi-sectoral and multi-scalar phenomenon. I ask: how do school closure and disposition decisions respond to and perpetuate shrinkage? First, I present gaps and connections across prior empirical work on shrinkage and that of sc…
School desegregation, school re-zoning, and growth management in two Maryland counties
This article examines how school and non-school policies interact to reinforce or disrupt school segregation in the context of suburban communities and how these systems are maintained by structural and institutional mechanisms. Methodologically, we use a case study approach to delve deeply into the interpretation and implementation of school attendance zone redesign and non-school policies, specifically land use policies and tools. We draw on ne…
Toward Mobility Justice
Problem, research strategy, and findings Transportation equity research addresses questions of participation and planning process or the distribution of transportation’s benefits and burdens. This work largely elides issues related to youth and student travel. Existing work on school trip mode choice does not engage deeply with the equity implications of its findings. Education equity researchers identify the abstract notion of choice as equity e…
News Media’s Democratic Functions in Public Education
Many school districts have closed public schools, despite opposition. The controversial nature of closures has inspired extensive newspaper coverage. This article addresses two questions: How do newspaper media frame public school closures? To what extent does this coverage fulfill media’s democratic functions? I examine coverage of school closures in 13 cities between 2005 and 2013. Across coverage of pre-closure catalysts, decision-making proce…
School-Centered Community Development and a Quest for Spatial Justice
The role of public education and schools in the struggle for spatial justice is underappreciated because school and neighborhood improvement have largely been viewed as distinct processes. This article builds a conceptual and empirical argument to explore the intersections of spatial and educational justice specifically in community development practice. We draw on qualitative data collected from a study of Baltimore’s twenty-first Century School…
School-centered community development
This article uses the case of Baltimore’s 21st Century School Buildings Program (21CSBP) to investigate the potential of leveraging a school facilities investment for community development. We find that school facilities investments have the potential to catalyze community development along four domains: social, institutional, economic, and physical. However, existing market conditions and community trust and social cohesion can facilitate or con…
Leveraging Community Schools for Community Development
This study leverages data collected from a study of Baltimore's 21 st Century School Buildings Program to understand the potential of a school facilities investment to catalyze community development. We leverage a school-community partnership typology to examine partnerships at 21CSBP schools in three neighborhoods. We found that schools provided critical resources to their school and place-based communities and were linked to community developme…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (4 works) · Community development (3 works)