Marla Nelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5831486 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marla Nelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marla |
| FAMILY NAME | Nelson |
| SIGNATURE | NELSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Orleans |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1086-7305 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Managing retreat? An empirical reflection on adopting relocation initiatives as adaptation policy in Louisiana
Coastal Louisiana is experiencing climate-related impacts at rates substantially higher than other areas worldwide. Unique coastal communities face imminent impacts requiring adaptation and possible relocation. As such, Louisiana's strategies for ecosystem-scale flood management and ecological restoration are relevant globally. In this paper, we trace the idea of managed retreat as a nonstructural adaptation mechanism through the analysis of Loui…
Getting By and Getting Out
Scholars argue that U.S. programs and policy designed to help households adapt to or move away from environmental risk were not designed to address climate change. Others demonstrate that disaster response upholds and produces structural inequality. This article examines how existing mitigation and adaptation policies fail to respond to lived conditions of residents and communities on the front lines of environmental change and perpetuate inequal…
Beyond Crises
This article refers to:Flint (MI) Missed an Opportunity to “Right Size” With Its Water CrisisRight Sizing Flint’s Infrastructure in the Wake of the Flint Water Crisis Would Constitute an Additional Environmental Injustice
Real Estate Development and Economic Development Planning Education
Development planning agencies seek professionals who understand the real estate process, which has led to an interest in real estate development courses within planning programs; however, educators are skeptical of conflating the two because real estate development is often at odds with the economic development field’s focus on social equity. How should economic development planning educators approach real estate? This article extends the discuss…
Just revitalization in shrinking and shrunken cities? Observations on gentrification from New Orleans and Cincinnati
In the last decade, shrinking cities have begun to gentrify, leading to optimistic narratives about their recovery. Redevelopment policies, however, can exacerbate social and spatial inequities if explicit efforts do not promote social justice. Drawing on evidence from Cincinnati and New Orleans, we explore 3 components of just revitalization: avoiding displacement, connecting longtime residents to new opportunities, and reducing decline in neigh…
Moving to a shrinking city? Some suggestive observations on why college-educated professionals came to New Orleans and why they stayed
The 2010 Census showed population increases in urban core neighbourhoods in US shrinking or legacy cities. Influenced by Florida’s creative class theory, municipal leaders in shrinking cities have sought to attract and retain creative and college-educated residents as a revitalisation strategy and implemented amenity-based policy initiatives. Nevertheless, when compared with strong market cities, weak market cities have fewer amenities and less r…
Beyond the Jobs versus Amenities Debate
A skilled workforce is essential to regional growth and competitiveness, yet what is needed to attract and retain a talent base is a matter of long-standing debate. Through a qualitative longitudinal study of educated professionals who moved or returned to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, we identify the particular aspects of “jobs” and “amenities” respondents valued, highlight the complex and relational nature of the migration process, and e…
Young Professionals as Ambivalent Change Agents in New Orleans after the 2005 Hurricanes
After the 2005 hurricanes, newcomers arrived in New Orleans to help rebuild the city. The influx of one identifiable group, young professionals and postgraduates, raised hopes and concerns that New Orleans would gentrify. Based on semi-structured interviews with 78 young and mid-career professionals, this paper examines how the young professionals approached an ambivalent situation where they were working to rebuild a better city while retaining …
Planning, Population Loss and Equity in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
Shrinking, slow-growth and fast-growth cities have different opportunities and constraints. This paper uses New Orleans following the severe flood damage from the 2005 hurricanes as a case study to investigate the challenges to developing equitable and effective plans in a city with significant population loss. By addressing four elements that are necessary for effective planning in depopulated areas—strategies for targeted investment and consoli…
Interpreting Producer Service Suburbanization
For some analysts the suburban expansion of producer services is evidence that suburbs have come to replace cities as centers of highly advanced activities. Others maintain that city and suburban producer services remain distinct, with the most advanced producer services bound to the urban core by agglomeration economies. This paper examines these conflicting views of suburbanization via an analysis of the intrametropolitan location of public acc…
Rethinking Agglomeration Economies and the Role of the Central City
This article investigates the unique locational attributes central cities are purported to have and the importance of agglomeration economies in intra-metropolitan site selection via a locational analysis of the public accounting industry in the Chicago and Minneapolis-St. Paul regions. Relying on data from a telephone survey of public accounting offices and interviews with public accounting executives and industry experts, findings suggest that …
Community Technology Centers
As access to information technology (IT) and the ability to use it increasingly become part of the toolkit necessary to participate and prosper in an information-based society, many fear that the IT revolution is bypassing low-income, urban communities. In the absence of comprehensive public or private efforts to close the technology gap, community technology centers (CTCs) have emerged at the grassroots level. The purpose of this article is to d…
Community Technology Centers and the Urban Technology Gap
Young Professionals as Ambivalent Change Agents in New Orleans after the 2005 Hurricanes
After the 2005 hurricanes, newcomers arrived in New Orleans to help rebuild the city. The influx of one identifiable group, young professionals and postgraduates, raised hopes and concerns that New Orleans would gentrify. Based on semi-structured interviews with 78 young and mid-career professionals, this paper examines how the young professionals approached an ambivalent situation where they were working to rebuild a better city while retaining …
Just revitalization in shrinking and shrunken cities? Observations on gentrification from New Orleans and Cincinnati
In the last decade, shrinking cities have begun to gentrify, leading to optimistic narratives about their recovery. Redevelopment policies, however, can exacerbate social and spatial inequities if explicit efforts do not promote social justice. Drawing on evidence from Cincinnati and New Orleans, we explore 3 components of just revitalization: avoiding displacement, connecting longtime residents to new opportunities, and reducing decline in neigh…
Community Technology Centers
As access to information technology (IT) and the ability to use it increasingly become part of the toolkit necessary to participate and prosper in an information-based society, many fear that the IT revolution is bypassing low-income, urban communities. In the absence of comprehensive public or private efforts to close the technology gap, community technology centers (CTCs) have emerged at the grassroots level. The purpose of this article is to d…
Beyond the Jobs versus Amenities Debate
A skilled workforce is essential to regional growth and competitiveness, yet what is needed to attract and retain a talent base is a matter of long-standing debate. Through a qualitative longitudinal study of educated professionals who moved or returned to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, we identify the particular aspects of “jobs” and “amenities” respondents valued, highlight the complex and relational nature of the migration process, and e…
Interpreting Producer Service Suburbanization
For some analysts the suburban expansion of producer services is evidence that suburbs have come to replace cities as centers of highly advanced activities. Others maintain that city and suburban producer services remain distinct, with the most advanced producer services bound to the urban core by agglomeration economies. This paper examines these conflicting views of suburbanization via an analysis of the intrametropolitan location of public acc…
Community Technology Centers and the Urban Technology Gap
Moving to a shrinking city? Some suggestive observations on why college-educated professionals came to New Orleans and why they stayed
The 2010 Census showed population increases in urban core neighbourhoods in US shrinking or legacy cities. Influenced by Florida’s creative class theory, municipal leaders in shrinking cities have sought to attract and retain creative and college-educated residents as a revitalisation strategy and implemented amenity-based policy initiatives. Nevertheless, when compared with strong market cities, weak market cities have fewer amenities and less r…
Rethinking Agglomeration Economies and the Role of the Central City
This article investigates the unique locational attributes central cities are purported to have and the importance of agglomeration economies in intra-metropolitan site selection via a locational analysis of the public accounting industry in the Chicago and Minneapolis-St. Paul regions. Relying on data from a telephone survey of public accounting offices and interviews with public accounting executives and industry experts, findings suggest that …
Real Estate Development and Economic Development Planning Education
Development planning agencies seek professionals who understand the real estate process, which has led to an interest in real estate development courses within planning programs; however, educators are skeptical of conflating the two because real estate development is often at odds with the economic development field’s focus on social equity. How should economic development planning educators approach real estate? This article extends the discuss…
Community Technology Centers
As access to information technology (IT) and the ability to use it increasingly become part of the toolkit necessary to participate and prosper in an information-based society, many fear that the IT revolution is bypassing low-income, urban communities. In the absence of comprehensive public or private efforts to close the technology gap, community technology centers (CTCs) have emerged at the grassroots level. The purpose of this article is to d…
Community Technology Centers and the Urban Technology Gap
Rethinking Agglomeration Economies and the Role of the Central City
This article investigates the unique locational attributes central cities are purported to have and the importance of agglomeration economies in intra-metropolitan site selection via a locational analysis of the public accounting industry in the Chicago and Minneapolis-St. Paul regions. Relying on data from a telephone survey of public accounting offices and interviews with public accounting executives and industry experts, findings suggest that …
Interpreting Producer Service Suburbanization
For some analysts the suburban expansion of producer services is evidence that suburbs have come to replace cities as centers of highly advanced activities. Others maintain that city and suburban producer services remain distinct, with the most advanced producer services bound to the urban core by agglomeration economies. This paper examines these conflicting views of suburbanization via an analysis of the intrametropolitan location of public acc…
Planning, Population Loss and Equity in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
Shrinking, slow-growth and fast-growth cities have different opportunities and constraints. This paper uses New Orleans following the severe flood damage from the 2005 hurricanes as a case study to investigate the challenges to developing equitable and effective plans in a city with significant population loss. By addressing four elements that are necessary for effective planning in depopulated areas—strategies for targeted investment and consoli…
Young Professionals as Ambivalent Change Agents in New Orleans after the 2005 Hurricanes
After the 2005 hurricanes, newcomers arrived in New Orleans to help rebuild the city. The influx of one identifiable group, young professionals and postgraduates, raised hopes and concerns that New Orleans would gentrify. Based on semi-structured interviews with 78 young and mid-career professionals, this paper examines how the young professionals approached an ambivalent situation where they were working to rebuild a better city while retaining …
Beyond the Jobs versus Amenities Debate
A skilled workforce is essential to regional growth and competitiveness, yet what is needed to attract and retain a talent base is a matter of long-standing debate. Through a qualitative longitudinal study of educated professionals who moved or returned to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, we identify the particular aspects of “jobs” and “amenities” respondents valued, highlight the complex and relational nature of the migration process, and e…
Just revitalization in shrinking and shrunken cities? Observations on gentrification from New Orleans and Cincinnati
In the last decade, shrinking cities have begun to gentrify, leading to optimistic narratives about their recovery. Redevelopment policies, however, can exacerbate social and spatial inequities if explicit efforts do not promote social justice. Drawing on evidence from Cincinnati and New Orleans, we explore 3 components of just revitalization: avoiding displacement, connecting longtime residents to new opportunities, and reducing decline in neigh…
Moving to a shrinking city? Some suggestive observations on why college-educated professionals came to New Orleans and why they stayed
The 2010 Census showed population increases in urban core neighbourhoods in US shrinking or legacy cities. Influenced by Florida’s creative class theory, municipal leaders in shrinking cities have sought to attract and retain creative and college-educated residents as a revitalisation strategy and implemented amenity-based policy initiatives. Nevertheless, when compared with strong market cities, weak market cities have fewer amenities and less r…
Real Estate Development and Economic Development Planning Education
Development planning agencies seek professionals who understand the real estate process, which has led to an interest in real estate development courses within planning programs; however, educators are skeptical of conflating the two because real estate development is often at odds with the economic development field’s focus on social equity. How should economic development planning educators approach real estate? This article extends the discuss…
Beyond Crises
This article refers to:Flint (MI) Missed an Opportunity to “Right Size” With Its Water CrisisRight Sizing Flint’s Infrastructure in the Wake of the Flint Water Crisis Would Constitute an Additional Environmental Injustice
Getting By and Getting Out
Scholars argue that U.S. programs and policy designed to help households adapt to or move away from environmental risk were not designed to address climate change. Others demonstrate that disaster response upholds and produces structural inequality. This article examines how existing mitigation and adaptation policies fail to respond to lived conditions of residents and communities on the front lines of environmental change and perpetuate inequal…
Managing retreat? An empirical reflection on adopting relocation initiatives as adaptation policy in Louisiana
Coastal Louisiana is experiencing climate-related impacts at rates substantially higher than other areas worldwide. Unique coastal communities face imminent impacts requiring adaptation and possible relocation. As such, Louisiana's strategies for ecosystem-scale flood management and ecological restoration are relevant globally. In this paper, we trace the idea of managed retreat as a nonstructural adaptation mechanism through the analysis of Loui…
Political science (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (5 works) · Housing Market and Economics (4 works)