Lauren Ames Fischer
Biographic Data
| ID | 6502349 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lauren Ames Fischer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lauren Ames |
| FAMILY NAME | Fischer |
| SIGNATURE | FISCHER L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Texas |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1506-4915 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Racial negligence, transit, and placemaking: An examination of planning practices
Transportation infrastructure is a core component of the built environment that significantly impacts how residents access services, amenities, jobs, education, and recreation. While other facets of urban studies have begun to reckon with the wicked legacy of racialized infrastructure as it pertains to schools, suburbs, and housing, the relationship between public transportation planning and race is less explored. This paper examines planning pro…
Ride-Hailing Away from Democracy: Building Uber’s Political Playbook in Washington, DC
Right to the road: How marginalized American motorists fought to drive and park
Diverging discourses: State-level preemption of municipal land regulation for housing production in California and Texas
Where Do I Go from Here? Evaluating Professional Development in Undergraduate Planning Education
Urban planning education emphasizes professional development and career preparedness. Undergraduate programs can recruit a broader diversity of students to planning but require different approaches to professional development than graduate programs. In this paper, we evaluate existing research on undergraduate and graduate planning education in the United States. Using a survey of undergraduates and an assessment of studio learning outcomes, we e…
Valuing property over the environment: Municipal landscaping ordinances in Texas
“Tax Discrimination District”: The Intersection of Race and Transit Value Capture
Problem, research strategy and findingsRecent efforts to promote land value capture as a solution to the fiscal crisis of local governments have gained traction, increasing the use of value capture tools across a variety of contexts. This research provides a case study examining how the politics of transit value capture district designation intersect with racialized patterns of disinvestment. Using the case of Kansas City (MO), I illustrate how t…
Who Decides? Toward a Typology of Transit Governance
This article describes a typology for formal governance structures of public transit in the United States to support inquiry into how organizational structures influence policy making processes, organizational capacity and policy outcomes. Scholarship of public transit has largely explored outcome-based research while paying less attention to how decisions are made. Despite some transport scholarship that shows how institutional characteristics i…
Value Capture In Situ: Participation, Evaluation, and Signaling in Kansas City, MO
This paper provides a qualitative examination of the implementation of a value capture–funded streetcar investment in Kansas City, MO. Using semi-structured interviews, I show that the local benefits of value capture financing go beyond revenue-raising. Local officials used value capture to limit the public approval process to residents who supported enhanced transit and to redefine the metrics of a successful transport investment in terms of lan…
Long Term Land Use Effects of New Rail Investment: Lessons from San Diego
In recent decades, U.S. cities have invested in rail transit for reasons beyond supplying alternatives to driving. Increasingly, rail investments are specifically promoted to reshape the built environment for property-led economic development. In these cases, new investment in rail transit is claimed to facilitate particular types of land use changes, mostly in the form of dense multi-family residential and mixed-use developments. Although rail’s…
Unequal Exceptions: Zoning Relief in New York City, 1998–2017
Zoning relief, the process of exempting individual properties from land-use regulations, is a widespread yet underexplored planning practice. A mixed-methods analysis of applications to the Board of Standards and Appeals in New York City between 1998 and 2017 examines three clusters of zoning relief. The results suggest a strong relationship between relief and neighborhood socio-political capital and underscore relief as a powerful form of ad hoc…
Unequal Exceptions: Zoning Relief in New York City, 1998–2017
Zoning relief, the process of exempting individual properties from land-use regulations, is a widespread yet underexplored planning practice. A mixed-methods analysis of applications to the Board of Standards and Appeals in New York City between 1998 and 2017 examines three clusters of zoning relief. The results suggest a strong relationship between relief and neighborhood socio-political capital and underscore relief as a powerful form of ad hoc…
Diverging discourses: State-level preemption of municipal land regulation for housing production in California and Texas
Value Capture In Situ: Participation, Evaluation, and Signaling in Kansas City, MO
This paper provides a qualitative examination of the implementation of a value capture–funded streetcar investment in Kansas City, MO. Using semi-structured interviews, I show that the local benefits of value capture financing go beyond revenue-raising. Local officials used value capture to limit the public approval process to residents who supported enhanced transit and to redefine the metrics of a successful transport investment in terms of lan…
Long Term Land Use Effects of New Rail Investment: Lessons from San Diego
In recent decades, U.S. cities have invested in rail transit for reasons beyond supplying alternatives to driving. Increasingly, rail investments are specifically promoted to reshape the built environment for property-led economic development. In these cases, new investment in rail transit is claimed to facilitate particular types of land use changes, mostly in the form of dense multi-family residential and mixed-use developments. Although rail’s…
Unequal Exceptions: Zoning Relief in New York City, 1998–2017
Zoning relief, the process of exempting individual properties from land-use regulations, is a widespread yet underexplored planning practice. A mixed-methods analysis of applications to the Board of Standards and Appeals in New York City between 1998 and 2017 examines three clusters of zoning relief. The results suggest a strong relationship between relief and neighborhood socio-political capital and underscore relief as a powerful form of ad hoc…
Value Capture In Situ: Participation, Evaluation, and Signaling in Kansas City, MO
This paper provides a qualitative examination of the implementation of a value capture–funded streetcar investment in Kansas City, MO. Using semi-structured interviews, I show that the local benefits of value capture financing go beyond revenue-raising. Local officials used value capture to limit the public approval process to residents who supported enhanced transit and to redefine the metrics of a successful transport investment in terms of lan…
Who Decides? Toward a Typology of Transit Governance
This article describes a typology for formal governance structures of public transit in the United States to support inquiry into how organizational structures influence policy making processes, organizational capacity and policy outcomes. Scholarship of public transit has largely explored outcome-based research while paying less attention to how decisions are made. Despite some transport scholarship that shows how institutional characteristics i…
“Tax Discrimination District”: The Intersection of Race and Transit Value Capture
Problem, research strategy and findingsRecent efforts to promote land value capture as a solution to the fiscal crisis of local governments have gained traction, increasing the use of value capture tools across a variety of contexts. This research provides a case study examining how the politics of transit value capture district designation intersect with racialized patterns of disinvestment. Using the case of Kansas City (MO), I illustrate how t…
Valuing property over the environment: Municipal landscaping ordinances in Texas
Where Do I Go from Here? Evaluating Professional Development in Undergraduate Planning Education
Urban planning education emphasizes professional development and career preparedness. Undergraduate programs can recruit a broader diversity of students to planning but require different approaches to professional development than graduate programs. In this paper, we evaluate existing research on undergraduate and graduate planning education in the United States. Using a survey of undergraduates and an assessment of studio learning outcomes, we e…
Diverging discourses: State-level preemption of municipal land regulation for housing production in California and Texas
Racial negligence, transit, and placemaking: An examination of planning practices
Transportation infrastructure is a core component of the built environment that significantly impacts how residents access services, amenities, jobs, education, and recreation. While other facets of urban studies have begun to reckon with the wicked legacy of racialized infrastructure as it pertains to schools, suburbs, and housing, the relationship between public transportation planning and race is less explored. This paper examines planning pro…
Ride-Hailing Away from Democracy: Building Uber’s Political Playbook in Washington, DC
Right to the road: How marginalized American motorists fought to drive and park
Business (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Land use (4 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (4 works) · Civil engineering (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Environmental planning (3 works)