Nicholas Finio
Biographic Data
| ID | 6502587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Finio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Finio |
| SIGNATURE | FINIO N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6469-3681 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Fostering Equitable Transit-Oriented Development via Multi-Sectoral Community Collaborations: Lessons from and for Maryland's Purple Line Corridor Coalition
The State of Maryland, through a public-private partnership, is building a new light rail line called the Purple Line. This project will greatly increase transit accessibility and increase land values in neighborhoods where many minority, low-income residents and small business owners may be vulnerable to displacement. The Purple Line Corridor Coalition (PLCC) was established in 2013 to balance equitable transit-oriented development against poten…
Suburban Gentrification: Change, Stasis, and TOD along the Purple Line
The Washington Metropolitan area has been growing rapidly and experiencing gentrification since the 1980s. Contemporaneously, a light rail corridor in the inner suburbs was planned and is currently being constructed. This light rail, Maryland’s Purple Line, travels through dense urban areas, post-war era suburbs, and through a series of dense low-income immigrant gateway neighborhoods. Through a case study of the Purple Line during the constructi…
Gentrification and Business Closures in Maryland’s Purple Line Corridor
The State of Maryland is investing in a new light rail line, the Purple Line, in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Whether or not the corridor it travels through is gentrifying is unknown, as are the impacts of both the construction and neighborhood gentrification on the local economy. In this paper, census data are used to identify neighborhood gentrification along the rail line. With a novel data source, employment, wages, and firm closures are tr…
PaRIT: A Planning Support System to Cope with a Network of Plans and Regulations
Actors in urban development use and respond to many plans made by organizations, both public and private, at different times with different purposes and scopes. Coping with such networks of information and constraints presents an opportunity to advance development of planning support systems (PSS). The Plans and Regulations Information Tool (PaRIT) is a computing interface that enables spatial queries to identify and access plans and regulations.…
Modeling Sustainability Scenarios in the Baltimore–Washington (DC) Region: Implications for Methodology and Policy
Problem, research strategy, and findings: Planners today are confronted with unprecedented uncertainty in economic, political, and technological environments, especially at the regional scale. An increasingly common approach to addressing such uncertainty is exploratory scenario analysis. To provide new insights into the methods and utility of such analyses, we conducted a scenario analysis of the Baltimore (MD)–Washington (DC) region by engaging…
Though Rumors of Its Demise Might Be Exaggerated
View responses to this article:Last Thoughts From Manville, Monkkonen, and LensLast Thoughts From Wegmann
Equity, Opportunity, Community Engagement, and the Regional Planning Process: Data and Mapping in Five U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Government agencies and nonprofit organizations have increasingly used spatial data to create equity and opportunity atlases or maps. This paper investigates how such maps have been integrated into planning processes, and if they have been useful in catalyzing engagement on equity issues. We employ a multiple case study approach to assess efforts in five U.S. regions: Atlanta, Denver, Minneapolis–St. Paul, Portland, and Seattle. Our findings show…
Metropolitan planning in a vacuum: Lessons on regional equity planning from Baltimore’s Sustainable Communities Initiative
The main policy initiative of the Obama administration’s first-term urban policy agenda was the Partnership for Sustainable Communities, which issued Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grants (SCRPGs) to regions across the country. As participant activist scholars in the SCRPG planning process in Baltimore, Maryland, we present our analysis of 4 aspects of regional equity planning: community engagement, regional collaboration, regional hou…
Metropolitan planning in a vacuum: Lessons on regional equity planning from Baltimore’s Sustainable Communities Initiative
The main policy initiative of the Obama administration’s first-term urban policy agenda was the Partnership for Sustainable Communities, which issued Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grants (SCRPGs) to regions across the country. As participant activist scholars in the SCRPG planning process in Baltimore, Maryland, we present our analysis of 4 aspects of regional equity planning: community engagement, regional collaboration, regional hou…
Equity, Opportunity, Community Engagement, and the Regional Planning Process: Data and Mapping in Five U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Government agencies and nonprofit organizations have increasingly used spatial data to create equity and opportunity atlases or maps. This paper investigates how such maps have been integrated into planning processes, and if they have been useful in catalyzing engagement on equity issues. We employ a multiple case study approach to assess efforts in five U.S. regions: Atlanta, Denver, Minneapolis–St. Paul, Portland, and Seattle. Our findings show…
Suburban Gentrification: Change, Stasis, and TOD along the Purple Line
The Washington Metropolitan area has been growing rapidly and experiencing gentrification since the 1980s. Contemporaneously, a light rail corridor in the inner suburbs was planned and is currently being constructed. This light rail, Maryland’s Purple Line, travels through dense urban areas, post-war era suburbs, and through a series of dense low-income immigrant gateway neighborhoods. Through a case study of the Purple Line during the constructi…
Gentrification and Business Closures in Maryland’s Purple Line Corridor
The State of Maryland is investing in a new light rail line, the Purple Line, in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Whether or not the corridor it travels through is gentrifying is unknown, as are the impacts of both the construction and neighborhood gentrification on the local economy. In this paper, census data are used to identify neighborhood gentrification along the rail line. With a novel data source, employment, wages, and firm closures are tr…
Metropolitan planning in a vacuum: Lessons on regional equity planning from Baltimore’s Sustainable Communities Initiative
The main policy initiative of the Obama administration’s first-term urban policy agenda was the Partnership for Sustainable Communities, which issued Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grants (SCRPGs) to regions across the country. As participant activist scholars in the SCRPG planning process in Baltimore, Maryland, we present our analysis of 4 aspects of regional equity planning: community engagement, regional collaboration, regional hou…
Modeling Sustainability Scenarios in the Baltimore–Washington (DC) Region: Implications for Methodology and Policy
Problem, research strategy, and findings: Planners today are confronted with unprecedented uncertainty in economic, political, and technological environments, especially at the regional scale. An increasingly common approach to addressing such uncertainty is exploratory scenario analysis. To provide new insights into the methods and utility of such analyses, we conducted a scenario analysis of the Baltimore (MD)–Washington (DC) region by engaging…
Though Rumors of Its Demise Might Be Exaggerated
View responses to this article:Last Thoughts From Manville, Monkkonen, and LensLast Thoughts From Wegmann
Equity, Opportunity, Community Engagement, and the Regional Planning Process: Data and Mapping in Five U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Government agencies and nonprofit organizations have increasingly used spatial data to create equity and opportunity atlases or maps. This paper investigates how such maps have been integrated into planning processes, and if they have been useful in catalyzing engagement on equity issues. We employ a multiple case study approach to assess efforts in five U.S. regions: Atlanta, Denver, Minneapolis–St. Paul, Portland, and Seattle. Our findings show…
Gentrification and Business Closures in Maryland’s Purple Line Corridor
The State of Maryland is investing in a new light rail line, the Purple Line, in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Whether or not the corridor it travels through is gentrifying is unknown, as are the impacts of both the construction and neighborhood gentrification on the local economy. In this paper, census data are used to identify neighborhood gentrification along the rail line. With a novel data source, employment, wages, and firm closures are tr…
PaRIT: A Planning Support System to Cope with a Network of Plans and Regulations
Actors in urban development use and respond to many plans made by organizations, both public and private, at different times with different purposes and scopes. Coping with such networks of information and constraints presents an opportunity to advance development of planning support systems (PSS). The Plans and Regulations Information Tool (PaRIT) is a computing interface that enables spatial queries to identify and access plans and regulations.…
Suburban Gentrification: Change, Stasis, and TOD along the Purple Line
The Washington Metropolitan area has been growing rapidly and experiencing gentrification since the 1980s. Contemporaneously, a light rail corridor in the inner suburbs was planned and is currently being constructed. This light rail, Maryland’s Purple Line, travels through dense urban areas, post-war era suburbs, and through a series of dense low-income immigrant gateway neighborhoods. Through a case study of the Purple Line during the constructi…
Fostering Equitable Transit-Oriented Development via Multi-Sectoral Community Collaborations: Lessons from and for Maryland's Purple Line Corridor Coalition
The State of Maryland, through a public-private partnership, is building a new light rail line called the Purple Line. This project will greatly increase transit accessibility and increase land values in neighborhoods where many minority, low-income residents and small business owners may be vulnerable to displacement. The Purple Line Corridor Coalition (PLCC) was established in 2013 to balance equitable transit-oriented development against poten…
Economics (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economic geography (2 works) · Engineering (2 works)