February 15, 2007

January CUPPA Briefing

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Emily Tapia receives WTS-Chicago graduate scholarship
Founded in 1977, the Women's Transportation Seminar (WTS) is an international organization devoted to advancing the professional development of women in the transportation industry. The WTS-Chicago Helene M. Overly Memorial Graduate scholarships are based on each applicant’s specific transportation involvement and goals, job skills and academic record. As a 2007 recipient, MUPP Emily Tapia will receive $2000 to fund her education. In addition, Ms. Tapia’s application has been forwarded to WTS-National for consideration for the national scholarship.

UPP students place first and second in design charrette
Philip Kramer and Zara Kadkani-Schmitt placed first and second in November's Massive Change design charrette sponsored by the City Design Center (CDC). Six international teams of students, two each from planning, architecture, and landscape architecture, competed to design sustainable, youth-oriented
solutions for the East Garfield Park neighborhood. The winning entries were selected by an international jury of design experts and have been placed on exhibit in the Canadian Design Exchange in Toronto.

Liang Long receives two ITE awards
The Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) is an international educational and scientific association of transportation professionals who are responsible for meeting mobility and safety needs. Urban Transportation Center research assistant Liang Long has received two of ITE’s 2006 student awards: The Institute of Transportation Engineers-Illinois Section Scholarship and the Institute of Transportation Engineers-Illinois Section Student Paper Award.

CUPPA alum receives Alumni Association Spirit Award
Peter Skosey, MUPP '93, received the 2007 University of Illinois Alumni Association's Lou Liay Spirit Award for Extraordinary Alumni Service. The award is bestowed upon one alum per year from the entire University of Illinois who has consistently demonstrated extraordinary loyalty, commitment, dedication
and service to the UI Alumni Association for the betterment of the University of Illinois, and whose name and achievements have become synonymous with their Alma Mater. Peter was one of the founders of the CUPPA alumni association, served as its president for six years and will be recognized at this year's CUPPA Commencement on Saturday, May 12.

David Perry appointed to Rudy Bruner Award Selection Committee
The selection committee for the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence is unique in that winners of the award are not selected through an established set of criteria, but rather, the definition of urban excellence by which applicants are judged emerges from the selection committee’s discussion of
the applications. Each year’s committee includes the mayor of a major metropolitan area, this year Mayor Manny Diaz of Miami, Florida, and five urban experts from across the country. After Dr. Perry was appointed in the Fall of 2006, he spent a weekend in January 2007 at the foundation in Cambridge, Massachusetts reviewing applications from 92 cities in North America for final inclusion in the group of cities and projects to be nominated, and will spend a second future weekend with the committee choosing the winners.

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting
The Transportation Research Board (TRB) held its annual meeting in Washington D.C. on January 21-25. The meeting’s spotlight theme was "Transportation Institutions, Finance, and Workforce: Meeting the Needs of the 21st Century". Led by UTC Interim Director Vonu Thakuriah, several CUPPA faculty, administrators and students, including Dean Robin Hambleton were in attendance. PA director Michael Pagano presented the overview on GPPs Infrastructure Management approach on Grading the States to the Asset Management Committee of TRB, of which former UTC Director Sue McNeil is Chair. For a list of CUPPA presentations given at TRB, see the Publications and Presentations section below.

Michael Pagano hosts January conferences
Public Administration director and professor Michael Pagano hosted two conferences this month. The Forum of Federations, which sponsors Global Dialogues on federal issues, asked Dr. Pagano to be the Country Coordinator for the US dialogue. The grant-supported Roundtable on Local Governments and
Metropolitan Regions in the US was held in the Great Cities Institute on January 18. An international conference will be convened later in the Spring and will bring together the country coordinators from the 12-15 countries that hosted roundtables. The second conference was a Thinkers Session on city finances on January 19, with financial support from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy with a follow-up multi-year proposal to be submitted for funding in three months.

Sharon Telleen collaborates with Centers for Disease Control
In conjunction with the UIC School of Public Health, IRRPP’s Dr. Sharon Telleen is currently working as a researcher on a multi-million dollar Centers for Disease Control (CDC) childhood asthma project, "Controlling Asthma in America's Cities," a seven-city project, with Chicago as one of the participating cities.

Views on Urban Sprawl event a success
On January 30 the UIC CUPPA Alumni Association, The American Planning Association – Chicago Metro Section, University of Illinois at Chicago and DePaul University hosted an event that brought together Chicago area planners, CUPPA alumni and students for a thought provoking discussion on the topic of urban sprawl. Speakers included Robert Bruegmann, Professor, UIC Department of Art History & CUPPA; Heather Smith, Planning Director, Congress for the New Urbanism; Siim Sööt, Director Emeritus, Urban Transportation Center, and the event was moderated by Tony Smith, AICP, Practice Leader, S. B. Friedman & Company.

February 2007 Great Cities events
All events will take place in the GCI conference room, fourth floor of CUPPA
Hall

Development Cluster Lecture:
February 6, 2007, 1pm
“Urban Form and the Institutional Context in Southeast Asian Cities,” Tingwei Zhang.

Healthy City Cluster Lecture:
February 15, 2007, 3pm
“The Lawndale Health Promotion Project: Engaging Communities in Creating a Healthier Community in Chicago’s North and South Lawndale,” Cynthia Barnes-Boyd.

Faculty Scholar Seminars:
February 13, 2007, 3pm
“Neighborhoods and Heritage: The Lawndale Experience,” featuring Scholars Robert Bruegmann, Roberta Feldman and Charles Leeks, Director Lawndale Office of Neighborhood Housing Services.

February 20, 2007, 1pm
“Saul Alinsky in Berlin? Citizen Organizing in Germany,” Tom Lenz, Lead Organizer, Lake County United.

February 27, 2007, 3pm
“Gangs in the Global City,” John Hagedorn, book lecture and signing.


PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS:

Book releases
Pagano, Michael A., and Robert Leonardi (eds). The Dynamics of Federalism in National and Supranational Political Systems. Palgrave, 2007.

Hambleton, Robin and Jill Gross (eds). Governing Cities in a Global Era. Palgrave, forthcoming Fall 2007.

Mossberger, Karen, Caroline J. Tolbert, and Ramona McNeal. Digital Citizenship: The Internet, Participation and Society. MIT Press, forthcoming Fall 2007.

Welch presents award-winning e-government paper
PA professor Eric Welch presented "Multiple Measures of Website Effectiveness and their Association with Service Quality in Health and Human Services Agencies" at the Hawaiian International Conference on Social Sciences in early January. This paper was also published in the proceedings, which have a 40-50% acceptance rate, and are published by IEEE (http://www.ieee.org/portal/site), a highly respected professional organization for computer science and engineering. The paper was awarded best paper in e-government at the conference.

New working paper posted on GCI website
“Urban Aesthetics and the Excess of Fact,” Helen Liggett, Professor, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University. http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/gci/

“Affordable Housing Conditions and Outlook” presentation online resources
Janet Smith, Co-director of the Voorhees Center, presented on the Center’s study “Affordable Housing Conditions and Outlook” at the Chapin Hall event on Youth and Poverty at the Federal Reserve Bank. The report and presentation audio are available on the Chapin Hall website. (http://www.chapinhall.org/article_abstract.aspx?ar=1445&L2=62&L3=105).

Podcasts on CUPPA Website
Check out the CUPPA website Podcast link at www.uic.edu/cuppa. You can download various recorded college events in .mp3 format. If your unit has an important talk you want to podcast so more can hear it, please make plans in advance! Instructions can be found at http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/admin/howto/podcasting.htm

Recent Publications
DiJohn, Joe and Siim Sööt. “Emerging Commuting Trends: Evidence from the Chicago Area.” Journal of the Transportation Research Forum 45.3.

Holbrook, Allyson L., Jon A. Krosnick, David Moore and Roger Tourangeau. “Response order effects in dichotomous questions presented orally: The effects of respondent and question characteristics.” Public Opinion Quarterly.

Johnson, Timothy P., Young IK Cho, Richard T. Campbell, and Allyson L. Holbrook. “Using Community-Level Correlates to Evaluate Nonresponse Effects in a Telephone Survey.” Public Opinion Quarterly 70 (2006): 704-719.

Johnson, Timothy P., Young IK Cho, and Allyson L. Holbrook. “The Impact of Question and Respondent Characteristics on Comprehension and Mapping Difficulties.” Public Opinion Quarterly 70 (2006): 565-595.

Mizusawa, Daisuke. “Evolvement of Road Projects in Southeast Asia: Maintaining and Developing Sustainability.” Journal of Traffic Engineering 42.1 (2007): 43-49 (in Japanese).

Theodore, N., A. Valenzuela, and E. Meléndez. “La Esquina (The Corner): Day Laborers on the Margins of New York’s Formal Economy.” Working USA (2006): 407-423.

Theodore, N. “Closed Borders, Open Markets: Day Laborers’ Struggle for Economic Rights” in H. Leitner, J. Peck and E. Sheppard, eds., Contesting Neoliberalism: Urban Frontiers, 250-265. New York: Guilford.

Recent Presentations
Doherty, Sean T., and Abolfazl Mohammadian. “Validity of Using Activity Type to Structure Tour-Based Scheduling Models.” Transportation Research Board 2007 Annual Meeting.

Fan, Peng, Abolfazl Mohammadian, Peter Nelson, James Haran, and John Dillenburg. “Novel Direction-Based Clustering Algorithm in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks.” Transportation Research Board 2007 Annual Meeting.

Kawamura, Kazuya, and Yandan Lu. “Evaluation of Application of Delivery Consolidation in U.S. Urban Area Using Logistics Cost Analysis.” Transportation Research Board 2007 Annual Meeting.

Mohammadian, Abolfazl and Taha H. Rashidi. “Modeling Household Vehicle Transaction Behavior: Competing Risk Duration Approach.” Transportation Research Board 2007 Annual Meeting.

Mohammadian, Abolfazl, Taha H. Rashidi, R. Barton, Todd A. Litman. “Estimation of Costs of Cars and Light Truck Use per Vehicle-Kilometer in Canada.” Transportation Research Board 2007 Annual Meeting.

Mohammadian, Abolfazl, and Yongping Zhang. “Investigating the Transferability of National Household Travel Survey Data.” Transportation Research Board 2007 Annual Meeting.

Mossberger, Karen. “The Many Meanings of Governance: How Should We Develop Research and Theory?” Emory University.

Mossberger, Karen. “A Global Look at Urban and Regional Governance: The State-Market-Civic Nexus.” Halle Institute Program on Governance.

Pagano, Anthony M., and Paul Metaxatos. “Impact of Computer-Assisted Scheduling and Dispatching Systems on Efficiency of Delivery of Paratransit Services: Evidence from Peoria, Illinois.” Transportation Research Board 2007 Annual Meeting.

Pu, Wenjing, David E. Boyce, and Jie Lin. “Trip Table Realization: Underlying Stochasticity and Impacts on Assigned Link Flows.” Transportation Research Board 2007 Annual Meeting.

Tang, Lei, and Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah. “Relationship of Attitudes Toward Road and Transit Capital Investments and Propensity to Ride Transit Given Traveler Information.” Transportation Research Board 2007 Annual Meeting.

Theodore, Nik. “Day Labor in the United States,” Labor and Employment Relations Association, Chicago chapter.

Theodore, Nik. “The Urbanization of Neoliberalism.” Right to the City conference, Los Angeles.

Theodore, Nik. “Hidden Public Cost of Low-Wage Work.” monthly meeting of the Chicago Jobs Council.

Yagi, Sadayuki, and Abolfazl Mohammadian. “Policy Simulation for New Bus Rapid Transit and Area Pricing Alternatives Using an Opinion Survey in Jakarta.” Transportation Research Board 2007 Annual Meeting.

Yagi, Sadayuki, and Abolfazl Mohammadian. “Microsimulation and Policy Applications of an Activity-Based Modeling System of Travel Demand.” Transportation Research Board 2007 Annual Meeting.

Yavuz N., Welch E., and P.S. Sriraj. “Individual and Neighborhood Determinants of Perceptions of Bus and Train Safety in Chicago: An Application of Hierarchical Linear Modeling.” Transportation Research Board 2007 Annual Meeting.

The Publications and Presentations list is compiled from unit updates submitted prior to each CUPPA Cabinet meeting to angelas@uic.edu.


COMINGS and GOINGS:

Jim Marek, Assistant Dean for Student Services
With recognition and thanks for his service to UIC, CUPPA has accepted the resignation of Jim Marek, Assistant Dean for Student Services. Jim has resigned as of February 6, 2007 and will be retiring from the University after over twenty-nine years of service.

After completing his master’s degree in political science at UIC in 1976, Jim has held several positions at the university including serving as assistant director and associate director of the Public Administration program. He also served as a data analyst with AISS (the precursor to AITS) and as assistant to the dean of the Graduate College. Whether assisting on accreditation, finding housing for an incoming student, planning commencement, spearheading the creation and implementation of a new degree in the college, tracking student placements in internships or employment, data mining student numbers, or performing a multitude of other tasks, Jim kept the best interests of our students at heart. Our deepest gratitude and very best wishes go with Jim as he embarks on a new chapter of his life.

Valerie Werner, Director, Urban and Public Affairs
CUPPA’s director of the BA program in Urban and Public Affairs will also take on the Acting Assistant Dean for Student Services position for the remainder of the 2006-2007 academic year.

Saurav Dev Bhatta, Professor, Urban Planning and Policy
Saurav Dev Bhatta has tendered his resignation as Assistant Professor of UPP effective 8/15/07. Professor Bhatta has accepted a 0% appointment in UPP to participate in future CUPPA online education initiatives, and a 0% Research Assistant Professor appointment in UTC to participate from time to time in the Center’s research, with both appointments to be effective, subject to Board of Trustee’s approval, on 8/16/07.

SAVE THE DATE:

March 26-30: Spring Break, no classes, administrative offices open

April 19: CUPPA International Lecture on “UK Urban Planning after Tony Blair – Lessons for the US” by Jim Claydon, President of the UK Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), 4pm, 110 CUPPAH

May 12: CUPPA Commencement

CUPPABriefing is an electronic publication by the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs for faculty, staff, students, and alumni. Published and distributed via email monthly following the meeting of the CUPPA Cabinet, CUPPABriefing will contain announcements, updates, and facts that are important to those working and/or studying in CUPPA. Questions, comments, or announcements may be sent to Angela Seeley, the Assistant to the Associate Dean, at angelas@uic.edu or 312-413-5445.