William Riggs
Biographic Data
| ID | 6328623 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Riggs |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Riggs |
| SIGNATURE | RIGGS W |
| AFFILIATIONS | California Polytechnic State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8562-5998 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
More than Analytics: Five Approaches to Educating Professionals to Shape Today’s Digital Cities
In the last two decades, a variety of digital technologies have proliferated in cities. Urban planning educators must respond to this given local resources, constraints, and options. This commentary reviews curricular innovations being undertaken by planning faculty at five diverse institutions to advance pedagogy beyond analytics. Our contribution is to identify three general approaches to expand teaching on digital technologies: (1) undertake r…
Designing transportation and land use coordination: Frameworks for measuring, understanding, and realizing sustainability, livability, and equity
The coordination of transportation and land use (also known as “smart growth”) has been a long-standing goal for planning and engineering professionals, but to this day remains an elusive concept to realise. In response, this paper dialogues literature and practices related to transportation and land use coordination (TLC), as well as sustainability, livability, and equity (SLE), finding that a comprehensive approach is to focus on the equitable …
Affordable overnight lodging in high-cost, high-need coastal environments
Providing access to coastal and marine resources has long been a planning priority in many locations. At the same time, housing affordability and the lack of investment in lower-cost overnight accommodations in environmentally sensitive coastal areas have exasperated efforts to provide equitable access. While agencies have funded projects to help increase the supply of lower-cost overnight accommodations along the coast, including development of …
Converting One-Way Streets to Two-Way Streets to Improve Transportation Network Efficiency and Reduce Vehicle Distance Traveled
Planning scholars have identified economic, safety, and social benefits of converting one-way streets to two-way. Less is known about how conversions could impact vehicular distances traveled—of growing relevance in an era of fleet automation, electrification, and ride-hailing. We simulate such a conversion in San Francisco, California. We find that its current street network’s average intra-city trip is ~1.7 percent longer than it would be with …
Prefab micro-units as a strategy for affordable housing
Increasingly large cities find themselves with a scarcity of affordable housing stock and cannot increase inventory quickly enough to meet urban growth trends. Some limitations include, lot size, regulatory barriers as well as environmental concerns. We focus on these barriers, first providing a background on these trends in the United States and then offering cases of how these opportunities might be applied as supply-side solutions to housing m…
The TOD and smart growth implications of the LA adaptive reuse ordinance
Mobile responsive websites and local planning departments in the US: Opportunities for the future
As use of mobile technology grows rapidly, planning agencies experiment and adopt new policies to accommodate this increase. While a significant body of literature has extolled the growth and opportunity this technological change presents, little is looking about its use by local government and urban planning organizations. This research investigates whether planning departments are capable of responding to increased mobile users given their curr…
How is mobile technology changing city planning? Developing a taxonomy for the future
The emergence of web technology creates tremendous opportunity to advance good government, through increased information, interaction with the public, and cost-effective, efficient means of conducting public transactions. Some have proposed that e-government tools have two major roles: (1) receptive and (2) interactive. We argue that there is a third role for planning and e-government technology – the transactive. To evaluate this, we survey publ…
Walkability and the benefits of place-based housing: An examination of Louisville’s Hope VI neighborhoods
The Homeownership Opportunities for People Everywhere (HOPE VI) program has marked a shift from larger development to more neighborhood sensitive projects based on small community development models. These developments are integrated with local neighborhoods and responsive to sustainability and smart growth principles. This study examines the extent to which HOPE VI redevelopments in Louisville, KY have had positive effects on the surrounding nei…
Revisiting location efficiency: Strategies to graduate thinking on mortgage policy
In recent years, mortgage credit has become scarce, especially for low-to-middle income (LMI) individuals, including the working class and minorities. This has limited the ability of many of these individuals to purchase in sustainable, transportation accessible urban locations. This paper explores location efficient mortgages (LEM), their effectiveness in encouraging home ownership in highly connected urban locations with access to non-motorized…
Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology and Politics
“Maps locate ... [but the] drive to locate, to coordinate, however revelatory and emancipatory it can be, also has a price” (16). They may overlook every day occurrences, people, and places—the socio
Two-Way Street Conversion: Evidence of Increased Livability in Louisville
While recent policies directed toward multimodal or complete streets have encouraged increased funding for bicycle- and pedestrian-oriented projects, many streets are still plagued by unsafe conditions. This is especially true for one-way streets, which studies show often create unsafe crossing conditions. This study evaluates changes to street dynamics after a two-way street conversion in Louisville, Kentucky. We find that traffic flow increased…
Does walkability matter? An examination of walkability’s impact on housing values, foreclosures and crime
Steps toward validity in active living research: Research design that limits accusations of physical determinism
Canine salmonellosis: A review and report of dog to child transmission of Salmonella enteritidis
Dogs have been shown to harbor 53 salmonellae serotypes. Multiple simultaneous infections with 2 to 4 serotypes have been observed. The prevalence of canine salmonellosis may be a high as 27 per cent. Salmonella typhimurium and S. anatum are the most common etiologic agents. Dogs commonly experience a sub-clinical course of salmonellosis. Some investigators state that the dog may serve as a source of human infections. A few reports in the literat…
Does walkability matter? An examination of walkability’s impact on housing values, foreclosures and crime
More than Analytics: Five Approaches to Educating Professionals to Shape Today’s Digital Cities
In the last two decades, a variety of digital technologies have proliferated in cities. Urban planning educators must respond to this given local resources, constraints, and options. This commentary reviews curricular innovations being undertaken by planning faculty at five diverse institutions to advance pedagogy beyond analytics. Our contribution is to identify three general approaches to expand teaching on digital technologies: (1) undertake r…
Walkability and the benefits of place-based housing: An examination of Louisville’s Hope VI neighborhoods
The Homeownership Opportunities for People Everywhere (HOPE VI) program has marked a shift from larger development to more neighborhood sensitive projects based on small community development models. These developments are integrated with local neighborhoods and responsive to sustainability and smart growth principles. This study examines the extent to which HOPE VI redevelopments in Louisville, KY have had positive effects on the surrounding nei…
Two-Way Street Conversion: Evidence of Increased Livability in Louisville
While recent policies directed toward multimodal or complete streets have encouraged increased funding for bicycle- and pedestrian-oriented projects, many streets are still plagued by unsafe conditions. This is especially true for one-way streets, which studies show often create unsafe crossing conditions. This study evaluates changes to street dynamics after a two-way street conversion in Louisville, Kentucky. We find that traffic flow increased…
Steps toward validity in active living research: Research design that limits accusations of physical determinism
Revisiting location efficiency: Strategies to graduate thinking on mortgage policy
In recent years, mortgage credit has become scarce, especially for low-to-middle income (LMI) individuals, including the working class and minorities. This has limited the ability of many of these individuals to purchase in sustainable, transportation accessible urban locations. This paper explores location efficient mortgages (LEM), their effectiveness in encouraging home ownership in highly connected urban locations with access to non-motorized…
Canine salmonellosis: A review and report of dog to child transmission of Salmonella enteritidis
Dogs have been shown to harbor 53 salmonellae serotypes. Multiple simultaneous infections with 2 to 4 serotypes have been observed. The prevalence of canine salmonellosis may be a high as 27 per cent. Salmonella typhimurium and S. anatum are the most common etiologic agents. Dogs commonly experience a sub-clinical course of salmonellosis. Some investigators state that the dog may serve as a source of human infections. A few reports in the literat…
Steps toward validity in active living research: Research design that limits accusations of physical determinism
Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology and Politics
“Maps locate ... [but the] drive to locate, to coordinate, however revelatory and emancipatory it can be, also has a price” (16). They may overlook every day occurrences, people, and places—the socio
Two-Way Street Conversion: Evidence of Increased Livability in Louisville
While recent policies directed toward multimodal or complete streets have encouraged increased funding for bicycle- and pedestrian-oriented projects, many streets are still plagued by unsafe conditions. This is especially true for one-way streets, which studies show often create unsafe crossing conditions. This study evaluates changes to street dynamics after a two-way street conversion in Louisville, Kentucky. We find that traffic flow increased…
Does walkability matter? An examination of walkability’s impact on housing values, foreclosures and crime
Walkability and the benefits of place-based housing: An examination of Louisville’s Hope VI neighborhoods
The Homeownership Opportunities for People Everywhere (HOPE VI) program has marked a shift from larger development to more neighborhood sensitive projects based on small community development models. These developments are integrated with local neighborhoods and responsive to sustainability and smart growth principles. This study examines the extent to which HOPE VI redevelopments in Louisville, KY have had positive effects on the surrounding nei…
Revisiting location efficiency: Strategies to graduate thinking on mortgage policy
In recent years, mortgage credit has become scarce, especially for low-to-middle income (LMI) individuals, including the working class and minorities. This has limited the ability of many of these individuals to purchase in sustainable, transportation accessible urban locations. This paper explores location efficient mortgages (LEM), their effectiveness in encouraging home ownership in highly connected urban locations with access to non-motorized…
Mobile responsive websites and local planning departments in the US: Opportunities for the future
As use of mobile technology grows rapidly, planning agencies experiment and adopt new policies to accommodate this increase. While a significant body of literature has extolled the growth and opportunity this technological change presents, little is looking about its use by local government and urban planning organizations. This research investigates whether planning departments are capable of responding to increased mobile users given their curr…
How is mobile technology changing city planning? Developing a taxonomy for the future
The emergence of web technology creates tremendous opportunity to advance good government, through increased information, interaction with the public, and cost-effective, efficient means of conducting public transactions. Some have proposed that e-government tools have two major roles: (1) receptive and (2) interactive. We argue that there is a third role for planning and e-government technology – the transactive. To evaluate this, we survey publ…
The TOD and smart growth implications of the LA adaptive reuse ordinance
Affordable overnight lodging in high-cost, high-need coastal environments
Providing access to coastal and marine resources has long been a planning priority in many locations. At the same time, housing affordability and the lack of investment in lower-cost overnight accommodations in environmentally sensitive coastal areas have exasperated efforts to provide equitable access. While agencies have funded projects to help increase the supply of lower-cost overnight accommodations along the coast, including development of …
Converting One-Way Streets to Two-Way Streets to Improve Transportation Network Efficiency and Reduce Vehicle Distance Traveled
Planning scholars have identified economic, safety, and social benefits of converting one-way streets to two-way. Less is known about how conversions could impact vehicular distances traveled—of growing relevance in an era of fleet automation, electrification, and ride-hailing. We simulate such a conversion in San Francisco, California. We find that its current street network’s average intra-city trip is ~1.7 percent longer than it would be with …
Prefab micro-units as a strategy for affordable housing
Increasingly large cities find themselves with a scarcity of affordable housing stock and cannot increase inventory quickly enough to meet urban growth trends. Some limitations include, lot size, regulatory barriers as well as environmental concerns. We focus on these barriers, first providing a background on these trends in the United States and then offering cases of how these opportunities might be applied as supply-side solutions to housing m…
Designing transportation and land use coordination: Frameworks for measuring, understanding, and realizing sustainability, livability, and equity
The coordination of transportation and land use (also known as “smart growth”) has been a long-standing goal for planning and engineering professionals, but to this day remains an elusive concept to realise. In response, this paper dialogues literature and practices related to transportation and land use coordination (TLC), as well as sustainability, livability, and equity (SLE), finding that a comprehensive approach is to focus on the equitable …
More than Analytics: Five Approaches to Educating Professionals to Shape Today’s Digital Cities
In the last two decades, a variety of digital technologies have proliferated in cities. Urban planning educators must respond to this given local resources, constraints, and options. This commentary reviews curricular innovations being undertaken by planning faculty at five diverse institutions to advance pedagogy beyond analytics. Our contribution is to identify three general approaches to expand teaching on digital technologies: (1) undertake r…
Business (9 works) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Engineering (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Civil engineering (4 works) · Sustainability (4 works) · Transport engineering (4 works) · Built environment (3 works)