Michael R Glass
Biographic Data
| ID | 5523083 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael R Glass |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael R |
| FAMILY NAME | Glass |
| SIGNATURE | GLASS M R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3796-8491 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America. By Andrew W. Kahrl
Mortgaging Out: Fha Credit Policy, Segregated Rental Housing, and the Remaking of Metropolitan America
Evaluating a gentrifying neighborhood's changing sense of place using participatory mapping
From Sword to Shield to Myth: Facing the Facts of De Facto School Segregation
During the legal battles that followed the 1954 Brown decision, the de jure-de facto binary became the key legal distinction used to define the limits of school desegregation. In recent years, historians have labeled de facto segregation as an evasive and misleading “myth.” However, the concept had a long political career before it became a subterfuge. In fact, civil rights activists first invented the concept in an attempt to force legal recogni…
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…
Performativity, Politics, and the Production of Social Space
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 …
The Road to Renewal: Private Investment in U.S. Transportation Infrastructure. R. Richard Geddes; and Disrupted Cities: When Infrastructure Fails. Stephen Graham, editor
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
From Sword to Shield to Myth: Facing the Facts of De Facto School Segregation
During the legal battles that followed the 1954 Brown decision, the de jure-de facto binary became the key legal distinction used to define the limits of school desegregation. In recent years, historians have labeled de facto segregation as an evasive and misleading “myth.” However, the concept had a long political career before it became a subterfuge. In fact, civil rights activists first invented the concept in an attempt to force legal recogni…
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…
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…
Performativity, Politics, and the Production of Social Space
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
From Sword to Shield to Myth: Facing the Facts of De Facto School Segregation
During the legal battles that followed the 1954 Brown decision, the de jure-de facto binary became the key legal distinction used to define the limits of school desegregation. In recent years, historians have labeled de facto segregation as an evasive and misleading “myth.” However, the concept had a long political career before it became a subterfuge. In fact, civil rights activists first invented the concept in an attempt to force legal recogni…
Evaluating a gentrifying neighborhood's changing sense of place using participatory mapping
The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America. By Andrew W. Kahrl
Mortgaging Out: Fha Credit Policy, Segregated Rental Housing, and the Remaking of Metropolitan America
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Field (mathematics (5 works) · Geography Education and Pedagogy (5 works) · Social science (4 works) · Economic geography (3 works)