Miriam Solis

Biographic Data

ID4443492
NAMEMiriam Solis
GIVEN NAMESMiriam
FAMILY NAMESolis
SIGNATURESOLIS M
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Texas at Austin
ORCID0000-0001-8207-5185
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR12
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Stadium sitings

    Open AccessDwayne Marshall Baker, Miriam Solis et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2026

  • Extreme heat and physical and mental health

    Open AccessCarmen R Valdez, Rodrigo Costa Leal et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2026References: 4

    Heat waves in the US are becoming more frequent, longer, and more intense due to climate change. South Texas is especially vulnerable because it is experiencing the highest increases in heat "danger days" nationally and has a high number of residents living in unincorporated neighborhoods known as colonias, which often lack basic infrastructure. The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore how extreme heat affects the physical and mental h…

  • Building on Grace Lee Boggs

    C Aujean Lee, Miriam SolisARTICLEJournal of Urban Affairs2026References: 6

    Stadiums have been criticized as large developments with few returns to residents. Yet, most stadiums built since 2000 have garnered little community resistance. Here, we examine the unique case of Oakland, California, in which the Athletics’ baseball stadium siting process was met with significant community resistance. Our study draws on Grace Lee Boggs’s place-based organizing concepts to understand the impact of hyper-local framing on the camp…

  • Young Latinas/os’ Environmental Commitments

    Open AccessMiriam Solis, Sergio Morales et al.ARTICLEUrban Planning2024

    This participatory research project aimed to identify young people’s perceptions of the natural and built environment in their neighborhoods, including how social inequities shape those environments, and how their community and governments can improve them. The study took place with 25 young Latinas/os, ages 14 to 18, many of whom lived in a formerly unincorporated neighborhood (known as colonia ) in Pharr, Texas, located in the state’s Rio Grand…

  • Just Energy Transitions

    Fayola Jacobs, Elise Harrington et al.ARTICLEPlanning Theory & Practice2024

    ContentsIntroductionFayola Jacobs, Elise Harrington, and Ward LylesEnergy Poverty in the Global North: Precarity and Participation in Informal CommunitiesSergio Tirado-Herrero, Carolina Yacamán-Och

  • Minoritised youth’s environmental justice priorities in a gentrifying context

    Miriam Solis, Katherine A Pérez-Quiñones et al.ARTICLELocal Environment2024

    Youth engagement in urban planning research and practice can help reveal their distinct experiences, priorities, and provide direction for future action. Environmental justice scholarship has documented critical insights learned from youth co-researchers. This article adds to this tradition by exploring how youth in Austin, Texas, experience environmental injustice within the context of gentrification. Using photovoice methods, youth researchers …

  • Urban conservation workers on a just transition

    Open AccessMiriam Solis, Anthony Bissiri et al.ARTICLEGeoforum2024References: 21

  • Labor lacuna

    Miriam Solis, Michael Oden et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Affairs2024Cited by: 1References: 7

    U.S. cities have launched expansive climate action initiatives, often touting these efforts' economic development and job creation benefits. However, without creating the conditions for high-quality jobs and improved access and inclusion, climate mitigation initiatives may be shaped by neoliberal labor principles that sustain inequality. Drawing upon just transition, economic development, and workforce planning literature, we examine the role of …

  • Social equity implications of advanced water metering infrastructure

    Open AccessMiriam Solis, Samira Binte BasharARTICLEUtilities Policy2022Cited by: 1References: 12

  • Climate justice pedagogies in green building curriculum

    Miriam Solis, Will Davies et al.ARTICLECurriculum Inquiry2022Cited by: 1References: 5

    This article draws on environmental justice frameworks located in urban planning (Agyeman et al., 2002 Agyeman, J., Bullard, R. D., & Evans, B. (2002). Exploring the nexus: Bringing together sustainability, environmental justice and equity. Space and Polity, 6(1), 77–90. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562570220137907[Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]; Pellow, 2007 Pellow, D. N. (2007). Resisting global toxics: Transnational movements for env…

  • Racial Equity in Planning Organizations

    Miriam SolisARTICLEJournal of the American Planning…2020

    In this Viewpoint, I urge public planners to examine how planning departments’ internal rules and norms reproduce racial inequity. I first explain how public planning departments’ inner workings are racialized and then offer racial equity in planning organizations (REPO) as a framework and directive to align public planning racial equity goals with internal rules and norms. I argue that organizational change will position planners to advance raci…

  • Conditions and Consequences of Elulu Improvement

    Open AccessMiriam SolisARTICLEJournal of Planning Education and…2020Cited by: 1References: 8

    Existing locally unwanted land uses (ELULUs) are disproportionately located in low-income communities of color. As ELULUs fall into disrepair, can planners redevelop them in ways that advance environmental justice and, if so, how? Through a case study of a San Francisco ELULU redevelopment planning process, this article highlights the central role of community-based organizing in generating policy changes that promoted certain environmental justi…