Here is where you will post links and thoughts for the course blog. Please post blog entries according to the instructions on your syllabus. (Sample posts from past semesters can be found here . You can also ch […]

Feb. 8 – Defining Environmental Equity

“Report on Environmental Equity: Reducing Risks for All Communities,” 1992. Environmental Protection Agency.

“Introduction: The Big Green Apple,” 2020. Checker, M […]

RESOURCES
PROJECT RESOURCES – A list of potential sources for informing your semester projects and short-answer writing assignments

Socio-economic and socio-demographic data tools – sources for data fr […]

For a printable pdf copy of the semester syllabus click here

“Environmental justice has always been about resistance, about continual repolitisation of the environment, of redefining and expanding the co […]

Welcome to URBST 371 – Community Engaged Research

In this course students will take an experience-based approach to environmental planning with a focus on environmental justice, or the disproportionate impact o […]

PROJECT RESOURCES – A list of potential sources for informing your neighborhood profiles
Socio-economic and socio-demographic data tools (data from the U.S. census)
NYC Population Factfinder

Google public da […]

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NOTE: The purpose of the Exercises and Assignments 1-5 is to gather information to assist in producing a overall picture or profile of your […]

Week 1 – Course Introduction

Welcome to Urban Research Methods

Week 2 – Research and Research Design

Developing a research question #1

Developing a research question #2

How to identify your […]

For a printable copy of the course syllabus

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”

– Albert Einstein

URBAN RESEARCH METHODS – URBST 200 […]

During the Spring 2019 semester, students in a community-engaged research course in the Urban Studies Department at Queens College of the City University of New York studied how communities around the United S […]

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Maggie Walker Community Land Trust
The Maggie Walker CLT is a non-profit organization in Richmond, VA, that formed in 2016 to create permanently affordable […]

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East Harlem/El Barrio Community Land Trust
The East Harlem/El Barrio Community Land Trust (EHEBCLT) is a collaboration between East Harlem residents, Picture the […]

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Baltimore Housing Roundtable
The Baltimore Housing Roundtable (BHR) is a coalition of community and housing organizations working to promote a new model of […]

Community Benefits Agreements (CBA) are best defined as contracts dictating project-specific agreements between a developer, a local government and a community. These contracts promise the community specific […]

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COMMUNITY BILLS OF RIGHTS
Executive Summary
This policy brief is written with respect to Community Bills of Rights and their potential as a mechanism by which […]

A fundamental component of the community land trust (CLT) is the community’s ability to own and control local resources – including land, buildings and other assets – and decisions regarding their use and devel […]