Richard K Norton
Biographic Data
| ID | 4629197 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard K Norton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard K |
| FAMILY NAME | Norton |
| SIGNATURE | NORTON R K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6767-1800 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Running the river
Multijurisdictional water trails do not enjoy reliable funding for operation and maintenance. They do promote public health and environmental stewardship, while also bolstering local economic development. Anticipating a proposal to amend state enabling law, we conducted a proof-of-concept study to explore the feasibility of using tax increment financing (TIF) to provide reliable funding for multijurisdictional water trails – an unconventional use…
Who Should Pay to Protect Trees? Tree Protection, Regulatory Takings, and Unconstitutional Conditions
The Promise and Challenge of Integrating Multidisciplinary and Civically Engaged Learning
Today's students need to become specialists in their profession while also recognizing the blinders that specialization brings- they need both disciplinary and meta-disciplinary learning. Today's universities need to innovate by providing an education responsive to contemporary demands. They also need to show their relevance to the broader publics they serve. This article critically assesses a teaching initiative that brings together existing cou…
Overlooking the coast
Planning Consultants’ Influence on Local Comprehensive Plans
Many planners work at private consulting firms, and many local governments use their services, but we have little idea of how consultant involvement affects plans. Analyzing data from a survey of local officials who engage planning consultants, we find that while engaging consultants does not appear to nudge local officials in a policy direction different from their preferences, it does appear to yield plans with a policy focus more oriented towa…
Using content analysis to evaluate local master plans and zoning codes
Planning for School Facilities
A prominent part of current debates on sprawl involves the relationship between schools and communities. Two key questions on this issue are to what extent considerations about community growth and development influence school boards as they decide, first, whether to renovate an existing school or build new and second, if building new, whether to site the new school in an urban or exurban location. Research on these questions to date has relied l…
Local Commitment to State-Mandated Planning in Coastal North Carolina
A consistent finding from recent work on the evaluation of planning outcomes has been that local commitment to planning plays a vital role in explaining those outcomes, especially when planning is promoted as a way to address regional development management concerns. While the importance of local commitment is not surprising, many questions remain, such as what “local commitment” means, what motivates it, and how it operates to affect local plann…
Using content analysis to evaluate local master plans and zoning codes
Local Commitment to State-Mandated Planning in Coastal North Carolina
A consistent finding from recent work on the evaluation of planning outcomes has been that local commitment to planning plays a vital role in explaining those outcomes, especially when planning is promoted as a way to address regional development management concerns. While the importance of local commitment is not surprising, many questions remain, such as what “local commitment” means, what motivates it, and how it operates to affect local plann…
Planning Consultants’ Influence on Local Comprehensive Plans
Many planners work at private consulting firms, and many local governments use their services, but we have little idea of how consultant involvement affects plans. Analyzing data from a survey of local officials who engage planning consultants, we find that while engaging consultants does not appear to nudge local officials in a policy direction different from their preferences, it does appear to yield plans with a policy focus more oriented towa…
Planning for School Facilities
A prominent part of current debates on sprawl involves the relationship between schools and communities. Two key questions on this issue are to what extent considerations about community growth and development influence school boards as they decide, first, whether to renovate an existing school or build new and second, if building new, whether to site the new school in an urban or exurban location. Research on these questions to date has relied l…
Overlooking the coast
The Promise and Challenge of Integrating Multidisciplinary and Civically Engaged Learning
Today's students need to become specialists in their profession while also recognizing the blinders that specialization brings- they need both disciplinary and meta-disciplinary learning. Today's universities need to innovate by providing an education responsive to contemporary demands. They also need to show their relevance to the broader publics they serve. This article critically assesses a teaching initiative that brings together existing cou…
Local Commitment to State-Mandated Planning in Coastal North Carolina
A consistent finding from recent work on the evaluation of planning outcomes has been that local commitment to planning plays a vital role in explaining those outcomes, especially when planning is promoted as a way to address regional development management concerns. While the importance of local commitment is not surprising, many questions remain, such as what “local commitment” means, what motivates it, and how it operates to affect local plann…
Planning for School Facilities
A prominent part of current debates on sprawl involves the relationship between schools and communities. Two key questions on this issue are to what extent considerations about community growth and development influence school boards as they decide, first, whether to renovate an existing school or build new and second, if building new, whether to site the new school in an urban or exurban location. Research on these questions to date has relied l…
Using content analysis to evaluate local master plans and zoning codes
Planning Consultants’ Influence on Local Comprehensive Plans
Many planners work at private consulting firms, and many local governments use their services, but we have little idea of how consultant involvement affects plans. Analyzing data from a survey of local officials who engage planning consultants, we find that while engaging consultants does not appear to nudge local officials in a policy direction different from their preferences, it does appear to yield plans with a policy focus more oriented towa…
The Promise and Challenge of Integrating Multidisciplinary and Civically Engaged Learning
Today's students need to become specialists in their profession while also recognizing the blinders that specialization brings- they need both disciplinary and meta-disciplinary learning. Today's universities need to innovate by providing an education responsive to contemporary demands. They also need to show their relevance to the broader publics they serve. This article critically assesses a teaching initiative that brings together existing cou…
Overlooking the coast
Running the river
Multijurisdictional water trails do not enjoy reliable funding for operation and maintenance. They do promote public health and environmental stewardship, while also bolstering local economic development. Anticipating a proposal to amend state enabling law, we conducted a proof-of-concept study to explore the feasibility of using tax increment financing (TIF) to provide reliable funding for multijurisdictional water trails – an unconventional use…
Who Should Pay to Protect Trees? Tree Protection, Regulatory Takings, and Unconstitutional Conditions
Political science (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Environmental planning (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Plan (archaeology (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works)