Michael R Gla
Biographic Data
| ID | 453922 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael R Gla |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael R |
| FAMILY NAME | Gla |
| SIGNATURE | GLA M R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3522-1519 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 184 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
To Infrastructure the Future
This commentary describes how geographers can consider the intersection between infrastructural systems and future‐making. The ability of different groups to envision the future varies significantly. The stakes are high as certain futures made available to some are denied to others. Questions regarding who has the capacity to imagine and materialise infrastructural futures—as well as who can see what futures over what spatial and temporal horizon…
Slow and sudden violence , by Derek Hyra: Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 2024
Bridging ‘infrastructural solutions’ and ‘infrastructures as solution’: Regional promises and urban pragmatism
The potential of infrastructure ‘as a solution’ is currently at the forefront of American political consciousness. Historic levels of investment in infrastructure proffer seismic material, economic, and symbolic transformations at a near-continental scale. However, the present policy context for infrastructure planning in the US is confounded by a mosaic of decision-making authorities that hamper the development of cohesive approaches to sustaina…
The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America. By Andrew W. Kahrl
Defining inclusive innovation: Challenges and Lessons for Innovation Districts
The concept of inclusive innovation has rapidly gained traction in academic and policy circles as a response to the distributional problems of traditional innovation strategies. It has since become a key focus in the design and implementation of innovation districts, geographically delineated spaces that foster collaboration among businesses and research institutions to drive innovation and economic growth. Despite this increasing interest, inclu…
Mortgaging Out: Fha Credit Policy, Segregated Rental Housing, and the Remaking of Metropolitan America
Whither the post-industrial city
This commentary provides a sympathetic critique to Luger and Schwartz's contention that the concept of ‘post-industrial’ lacks continued utility in a world of urban (and regional) change. Drawing on the authors’ use of stigma and narrative, I argue the post-industrial concept remains relevant, though scholars must attend to who is mobilizing the concept, and to what ends
A region runs through it: Representation, mediation and partnership in regional water infrastructure governance
This editorial introduction reflects on a special issue of Territory, Politics, Governance that evaluates water infrastructure and processes of regionalisation through case studies drawing upon the 'infrastructural regionalism' framework.This regional approach to the infrastructure turn emphasises: (1) interdisciplinary research; (2) infrastructure and regional governance; (3) 'seeing like a region'; and (4) regional lives.We outline four dimensi…
An Alternative History of Pittsburgh: Ed Simon. Cleveland, OH: Belt Publishing, 2021. 182 pp. $16.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-948742-94-4)
Saving the neighbourhood: Understanding tenant activism in middle-class Manhattan
Recent debates question whether assemblage urbanism provides an appropriate framework for addressing the housing question under late capitalism. On one side, proponents note the capacity of assemblage to reveal the complex emergence of events, places and processes, whereas critics argue assemblage accounts provide deep empirical detail but avoid engaging with political economy. This paper addresses such criticism through an assemblage account of …
Evaluating a gentrifying neighborhood's changing sense of place using participatory mapping
Seeing, feeling, and showing 'bodies-in-place: Exploring Reflexivity and the Multisensory Body Through Videography
This paper considers the challenge of representing embodied, multisensory experience of 'bodies-in-place' through film, an audio-visual medium. The first section, 'Seeing bodies', sets the context within a more general 'return to the senses' in the social sciences, and particularly within ethnographic fieldwork, in order to reconnect place and sense through mobile encounter. 'Feeling bodies', the second section on sensory reflexivity and position…
Regional infrastructures, infrastructural regionalism
An ‘infrastructure turn’ across the social and policy sciences is generating a new wave of interdisciplinary enquiry into how infrastructure is shaping urban and regional space. This editorial introduces a virtual special issue that charts the evolution of infrastructure as an empirical and conceptual concern within Regional Studies. The issue demonstrates that analysing regions through infrastructure – whether large, capital-intensive projects o…
Regionalizing the infrastructure turn: A Research Agenda
An interdisciplinary ‘infrastructure turn’ has emerged over the past 20 years that disputes the concept of urban infrastructure as a staid or neutral set of physical artefacts. Responding to the increased conceptual, geographical and political importance of infrastructure – and endemic issues of access, expertise and governance that the varied provision of infrastructures can cause – this intervention asserts the significance of applying a region…
Seeing like a city through the Singapore City Gallery
Urban planning galleries are interpretive spaces that assert the state’s vision for the city. Ostensibly public showcases of a city’s past, present, and future, state administrations use these sites for specific purposes. On the one hand, planning galleries are designed to convince the public, tourists, and investors that their cities are aspiring towards a greater and more optimistic future. On the other hand, these galleries imply to visitors t…
Gaining a mobile sense of place with collector for ArcGIS
Mobile technology is increasingly widespread in geographic instruction, raising questions about how to integrate and analyse data from multiple users. Collector for ArcGIS allows researchers to gather multi-sensory field data, and is therefore a prospective way to integrate qualitative and quantitative information. We evaluate students’ experience using Collector in an exercise that considered the senses of place in a research neighbourhood. Coll…
Navigating the regionalism–public choice divide in regional studies
While city-regions take on increasingly important social and economic roles, analytical perspectives on their political boundaries remain fragmentary. This paper considers the evolving debates over city-region boundaries in the United States, arguing that the two predominant perspectives (regionalism and public choice) each provide partial accounts of political fragmentation in city-regions. Regionalists and public choice theorists frame the urba…
People and Planning: Report of the Committee on Public Participation in Planning (The Skeffington Committee Report)
Peter Shapely. London, UK, and New York, NY: Routledge, 2014. 71 pp. £100.00 cloth (ISBN 978-0415827874).People and Planning is a British government report originally released in 1969 to provide re
The world through Glass: Developing novel methods with wearable computing for urban videographic research
Google Glass was deployed in an Urban Studies field course to gather videographic data for team-based student research projects. We evaluate the potential for wearable computing technology such as Glass, in combination with other mobile computing devices, to enhance reflexive research skills, and videography in particular, during field research. The utility as well as the limitations of Google Glass are discussed, including its actual and potenti…
International geography field courses: Practices and challenges
This paper introduces a special issue of the Journal of Geography in Higher Education on the practices and challenges associated with taking undergraduate geography students abroad on field courses. I argue that geography is positioned to benefit from both the internationalization of higher education and the demand by students for global experiences. The papers in this special issue focus on three aspects of international field courses: curriculu…
Teaching critical reflexivity in short-term international field courses: Practices and problems
This study critiques the use of critical reflexivity in short-term international field courses. Critical reflexivity’s benefits include preparing students for professional research, deepening their learning, and giving the chance to see how student perspectives on fieldwork sites are influenced by their own identity and positionality. I use an inter-disciplinary review of reflexivity to describe four challenges faculty must address if they wish t…
Enhancing field research methods with mobile survey technology
This paper assesses the experience of undergraduate students using mobile devices and a commercial application, iSurvey, to conduct a neighborhood survey. Mobile devices offer benefits for enhancing student learning and engagement. This field exercise created the opportunity for classroom discussions on the practicalities of urban research, the survey data was available for immediate analysis, and students felt they were conducting meaningful res…
Cities, State and Globalization: City‐Regional Governance in Europe and North AmericaBy TassiloHerrschelLondon: Routledge, 2014
Encouraging reflexivity in urban geography fieldwork: Study abroad experiences in Singapore and Malaysia
Fieldwork in urban geography courses can encourage reflexivity among students regarding the cities they encounter. This article outlines how student reflexivity was encouraged within a new international field research course in Singapore and Malaysia. Drawing on examples from students' field exercises written during an intensive and occasionally emotional field experience and from interviews held after the students' return, I argue that student r…
Advanced manufacturing as an online case study for global geography education
Advanced manufacturing continues to be an important sector for emerging and industrialized economies, therefore, remaining an important topic for economic geography education. This article describes a case study created for the Association of American Geographer's Center for Global Geography Education and its implementation. The international machine tool industry is particularly useful for introducing students to the regional impacts of broader …
Regionalizing the infrastructure turn: A Research Agenda
An interdisciplinary ‘infrastructure turn’ has emerged over the past 20 years that disputes the concept of urban infrastructure as a staid or neutral set of physical artefacts. Responding to the increased conceptual, geographical and political importance of infrastructure – and endemic issues of access, expertise and governance that the varied provision of infrastructures can cause – this intervention asserts the significance of applying a region…
Seeing, feeling, and showing 'bodies-in-place: Exploring Reflexivity and the Multisensory Body Through Videography
This paper considers the challenge of representing embodied, multisensory experience of 'bodies-in-place' through film, an audio-visual medium. The first section, 'Seeing bodies', sets the context within a more general 'return to the senses' in the social sciences, and particularly within ethnographic fieldwork, in order to reconnect place and sense through mobile encounter. 'Feeling bodies', the second section on sensory reflexivity and position…
The Kappa Statistic: A Second Look
In recent years, the kappa coefficient of agreement has become the de facto standard for evaluating intercoder agreement for tagging tasks. In this squib, we highlight issues that affect κ and that the community has largely neglected. First, we discuss the assumptions underlying different computations of the expected agreement component of κ. Second, we discuss how prevalence and bias affect the κ measure
Encouraging reflexivity in urban geography fieldwork: Study abroad experiences in Singapore and Malaysia
Fieldwork in urban geography courses can encourage reflexivity among students regarding the cities they encounter. This article outlines how student reflexivity was encouraged within a new international field research course in Singapore and Malaysia. Drawing on examples from students' field exercises written during an intensive and occasionally emotional field experience and from interviews held after the students' return, I argue that student r…
Regional infrastructures, infrastructural regionalism
An ‘infrastructure turn’ across the social and policy sciences is generating a new wave of interdisciplinary enquiry into how infrastructure is shaping urban and regional space. This editorial introduces a virtual special issue that charts the evolution of infrastructure as an empirical and conceptual concern within Regional Studies. The issue demonstrates that analysing regions through infrastructure – whether large, capital-intensive projects o…
International geography field courses: Practices and challenges
This paper introduces a special issue of the Journal of Geography in Higher Education on the practices and challenges associated with taking undergraduate geography students abroad on field courses. I argue that geography is positioned to benefit from both the internationalization of higher education and the demand by students for global experiences. The papers in this special issue focus on three aspects of international field courses: curriculu…
Teaching critical reflexivity in short-term international field courses: Practices and problems
This study critiques the use of critical reflexivity in short-term international field courses. Critical reflexivity’s benefits include preparing students for professional research, deepening their learning, and giving the chance to see how student perspectives on fieldwork sites are influenced by their own identity and positionality. I use an inter-disciplinary review of reflexivity to describe four challenges faculty must address if they wish t…
Navigating the regionalism–public choice divide in regional studies
While city-regions take on increasingly important social and economic roles, analytical perspectives on their political boundaries remain fragmentary. This paper considers the evolving debates over city-region boundaries in the United States, arguing that the two predominant perspectives (regionalism and public choice) each provide partial accounts of political fragmentation in city-regions. Regionalists and public choice theorists frame the urba…
Evaluating a gentrifying neighborhood's changing sense of place using participatory mapping
Enhancing field research methods with mobile survey technology
This paper assesses the experience of undergraduate students using mobile devices and a commercial application, iSurvey, to conduct a neighborhood survey. Mobile devices offer benefits for enhancing student learning and engagement. This field exercise created the opportunity for classroom discussions on the practicalities of urban research, the survey data was available for immediate analysis, and students felt they were conducting meaningful res…
Seeing like a city through the Singapore City Gallery
Urban planning galleries are interpretive spaces that assert the state’s vision for the city. Ostensibly public showcases of a city’s past, present, and future, state administrations use these sites for specific purposes. On the one hand, planning galleries are designed to convince the public, tourists, and investors that their cities are aspiring towards a greater and more optimistic future. On the other hand, these galleries imply to visitors t…
The world through Glass: Developing novel methods with wearable computing for urban videographic research
Google Glass was deployed in an Urban Studies field course to gather videographic data for team-based student research projects. We evaluate the potential for wearable computing technology such as Glass, in combination with other mobile computing devices, to enhance reflexive research skills, and videography in particular, during field research. The utility as well as the limitations of Google Glass are discussed, including its actual and potenti…
Bridging ‘infrastructural solutions’ and ‘infrastructures as solution’: Regional promises and urban pragmatism
The potential of infrastructure ‘as a solution’ is currently at the forefront of American political consciousness. Historic levels of investment in infrastructure proffer seismic material, economic, and symbolic transformations at a near-continental scale. However, the present policy context for infrastructure planning in the US is confounded by a mosaic of decision-making authorities that hamper the development of cohesive approaches to sustaina…
Saving the neighbourhood: Understanding tenant activism in middle-class Manhattan
Recent debates question whether assemblage urbanism provides an appropriate framework for addressing the housing question under late capitalism. On one side, proponents note the capacity of assemblage to reveal the complex emergence of events, places and processes, whereas critics argue assemblage accounts provide deep empirical detail but avoid engaging with political economy. This paper addresses such criticism through an assemblage account of …
Gaining a mobile sense of place with collector for ArcGIS
Mobile technology is increasingly widespread in geographic instruction, raising questions about how to integrate and analyse data from multiple users. Collector for ArcGIS allows researchers to gather multi-sensory field data, and is therefore a prospective way to integrate qualitative and quantitative information. We evaluate students’ experience using Collector in an exercise that considered the senses of place in a research neighbourhood. Coll…
Innovation and Interdependencies in the New Zealand Custom Boat‐building Industry
Custom boat building in New Zealand is a globally competing industry comprising a densely interconnected community of small and medium‐sized enterprises. Innovation in product and production processes is an essential feature in the industry's success. This article investigates innovation and interdependencies in the New Zealand boat‐building industry and explores the notion that it is an example of an innovative regional milieu. The study include…
Defining inclusive innovation: Challenges and Lessons for Innovation Districts
The concept of inclusive innovation has rapidly gained traction in academic and policy circles as a response to the distributional problems of traditional innovation strategies. It has since become a key focus in the design and implementation of innovation districts, geographically delineated spaces that foster collaboration among businesses and research institutions to drive innovation and economic growth. Despite this increasing interest, inclu…
Advanced manufacturing as an online case study for global geography education
Advanced manufacturing continues to be an important sector for emerging and industrialized economies, therefore, remaining an important topic for economic geography education. This article describes a case study created for the Association of American Geographer's Center for Global Geography Education and its implementation. The international machine tool industry is particularly useful for introducing students to the regional impacts of broader …
Metropolitan Reform in Allegheny County: The Local Failure of National Urban Reform Advocacy, 1920-1929
During the 1920—1929 period, the Civic Club of Allegheny County supported political consolidation of the county’s municipalities and townships. Civic Club leaders sought boundary reform to tackle perceived social problems and political inefficiencies in the Pittsburgh region. This policy was aligned with a national network of Progressive urban reformers, some of whom guided the Civic Club’s plans. These reform efforts culminated in the 1929 Metro…
Innovation and Interdependencies in the New Zealand Custom Boat‐building Industry
Custom boat building in New Zealand is a globally competing industry comprising a densely interconnected community of small and medium‐sized enterprises. Innovation in product and production processes is an essential feature in the industry's success. This article investigates innovation and interdependencies in the New Zealand boat‐building industry and explores the notion that it is an example of an innovative regional milieu. The study include…
Workfare States . Jamie Peck; Geographies of Disability . Brendan Gleason; From Aztec to High Tech: Architecture and Landscape across the Mexico-United States Border . Lawrence A. Herzog; Regions, Glo…
The Kappa Statistic: A Second Look
In recent years, the kappa coefficient of agreement has become the de facto standard for evaluating intercoder agreement for tagging tasks. In this squib, we highlight issues that affect κ and that the community has largely neglected. First, we discuss the assumptions underlying different computations of the expected agreement component of κ. Second, we discuss how prevalence and bias affect the κ measure
Annotation of Tutorial Dialogue Goals for Natural Language Generation
We annotated transcripts of human tutoring dialogue for the purpose of constructing a dialogue-based intelligent tutoring system, CIRCSIM-Tutor. The tutors were professors of physiology who were also expert tutors. The students were 1st year medical students who communicated with the tutors using typed communication from separate rooms. The tutors made use of a rich variety of strategies, some specific to particular content areas and others more …
Metropolitan Reform in Allegheny County: The Local Failure of National Urban Reform Advocacy, 1920-1929
During the 1920—1929 period, the Civic Club of Allegheny County supported political consolidation of the county’s municipalities and townships. Civic Club leaders sought boundary reform to tackle perceived social problems and political inefficiencies in the Pittsburgh region. This policy was aligned with a national network of Progressive urban reformers, some of whom guided the Civic Club’s plans. These reform efforts culminated in the 1929 Metro…
Advanced manufacturing as an online case study for global geography education
Advanced manufacturing continues to be an important sector for emerging and industrialized economies, therefore, remaining an important topic for economic geography education. This article describes a case study created for the Association of American Geographer's Center for Global Geography Education and its implementation. The international machine tool industry is particularly useful for introducing students to the regional impacts of broader …
The Road to Renewal: Private Investment in U.S. Transportation Infrastructure. R. Richard Geddes; and Disrupted Cities: When Infrastructure Fails. Stephen Graham, editor
Encouraging reflexivity in urban geography fieldwork: Study abroad experiences in Singapore and Malaysia
Fieldwork in urban geography courses can encourage reflexivity among students regarding the cities they encounter. This article outlines how student reflexivity was encouraged within a new international field research course in Singapore and Malaysia. Drawing on examples from students' field exercises written during an intensive and occasionally emotional field experience and from interviews held after the students' return, I argue that student r…
Cities, State and Globalization: City‐Regional Governance in Europe and North AmericaBy TassiloHerrschelLondon: Routledge, 2014
The world through Glass: Developing novel methods with wearable computing for urban videographic research
Google Glass was deployed in an Urban Studies field course to gather videographic data for team-based student research projects. We evaluate the potential for wearable computing technology such as Glass, in combination with other mobile computing devices, to enhance reflexive research skills, and videography in particular, during field research. The utility as well as the limitations of Google Glass are discussed, including its actual and potenti…
International geography field courses: Practices and challenges
This paper introduces a special issue of the Journal of Geography in Higher Education on the practices and challenges associated with taking undergraduate geography students abroad on field courses. I argue that geography is positioned to benefit from both the internationalization of higher education and the demand by students for global experiences. The papers in this special issue focus on three aspects of international field courses: curriculu…
Teaching critical reflexivity in short-term international field courses: Practices and problems
This study critiques the use of critical reflexivity in short-term international field courses. Critical reflexivity’s benefits include preparing students for professional research, deepening their learning, and giving the chance to see how student perspectives on fieldwork sites are influenced by their own identity and positionality. I use an inter-disciplinary review of reflexivity to describe four challenges faculty must address if they wish t…
Enhancing field research methods with mobile survey technology
This paper assesses the experience of undergraduate students using mobile devices and a commercial application, iSurvey, to conduct a neighborhood survey. Mobile devices offer benefits for enhancing student learning and engagement. This field exercise created the opportunity for classroom discussions on the practicalities of urban research, the survey data was available for immediate analysis, and students felt they were conducting meaningful res…
People and Planning: Report of the Committee on Public Participation in Planning (The Skeffington Committee Report)
Peter Shapely. London, UK, and New York, NY: Routledge, 2014. 71 pp. £100.00 cloth (ISBN 978-0415827874).People and Planning is a British government report originally released in 1969 to provide re
Seeing like a city through the Singapore City Gallery
Urban planning galleries are interpretive spaces that assert the state’s vision for the city. Ostensibly public showcases of a city’s past, present, and future, state administrations use these sites for specific purposes. On the one hand, planning galleries are designed to convince the public, tourists, and investors that their cities are aspiring towards a greater and more optimistic future. On the other hand, these galleries imply to visitors t…
Gaining a mobile sense of place with collector for ArcGIS
Mobile technology is increasingly widespread in geographic instruction, raising questions about how to integrate and analyse data from multiple users. Collector for ArcGIS allows researchers to gather multi-sensory field data, and is therefore a prospective way to integrate qualitative and quantitative information. We evaluate students’ experience using Collector in an exercise that considered the senses of place in a research neighbourhood. Coll…
Navigating the regionalism–public choice divide in regional studies
While city-regions take on increasingly important social and economic roles, analytical perspectives on their political boundaries remain fragmentary. This paper considers the evolving debates over city-region boundaries in the United States, arguing that the two predominant perspectives (regionalism and public choice) each provide partial accounts of political fragmentation in city-regions. Regionalists and public choice theorists frame the urba…
Regional infrastructures, infrastructural regionalism
An ‘infrastructure turn’ across the social and policy sciences is generating a new wave of interdisciplinary enquiry into how infrastructure is shaping urban and regional space. This editorial introduces a virtual special issue that charts the evolution of infrastructure as an empirical and conceptual concern within Regional Studies. The issue demonstrates that analysing regions through infrastructure – whether large, capital-intensive projects o…
Regionalizing the infrastructure turn: A Research Agenda
An interdisciplinary ‘infrastructure turn’ has emerged over the past 20 years that disputes the concept of urban infrastructure as a staid or neutral set of physical artefacts. Responding to the increased conceptual, geographical and political importance of infrastructure – and endemic issues of access, expertise and governance that the varied provision of infrastructures can cause – this intervention asserts the significance of applying a region…
Saving the neighbourhood: Understanding tenant activism in middle-class Manhattan
Recent debates question whether assemblage urbanism provides an appropriate framework for addressing the housing question under late capitalism. On one side, proponents note the capacity of assemblage to reveal the complex emergence of events, places and processes, whereas critics argue assemblage accounts provide deep empirical detail but avoid engaging with political economy. This paper addresses such criticism through an assemblage account of …
Evaluating a gentrifying neighborhood's changing sense of place using participatory mapping
Seeing, feeling, and showing 'bodies-in-place: Exploring Reflexivity and the Multisensory Body Through Videography
This paper considers the challenge of representing embodied, multisensory experience of 'bodies-in-place' through film, an audio-visual medium. The first section, 'Seeing bodies', sets the context within a more general 'return to the senses' in the social sciences, and particularly within ethnographic fieldwork, in order to reconnect place and sense through mobile encounter. 'Feeling bodies', the second section on sensory reflexivity and position…
An Alternative History of Pittsburgh: Ed Simon. Cleveland, OH: Belt Publishing, 2021. 182 pp. $16.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-948742-94-4)
Whither the post-industrial city
This commentary provides a sympathetic critique to Luger and Schwartz's contention that the concept of ‘post-industrial’ lacks continued utility in a world of urban (and regional) change. Drawing on the authors’ use of stigma and narrative, I argue the post-industrial concept remains relevant, though scholars must attend to who is mobilizing the concept, and to what ends
A region runs through it: Representation, mediation and partnership in regional water infrastructure governance
This editorial introduction reflects on a special issue of Territory, Politics, Governance that evaluates water infrastructure and processes of regionalisation through case studies drawing upon the 'infrastructural regionalism' framework.This regional approach to the infrastructure turn emphasises: (1) interdisciplinary research; (2) infrastructure and regional governance; (3) 'seeing like a region'; and (4) regional lives.We outline four dimensi…
Political science (20 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Law (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Geography (11 works) · Politics (9 works) · Regional science (9 works) · Economic geography (8 works) · Engineering (8 works)