Rachel Weber Ph.D., Associate Professor

Associate Professor, Urban Planning and Policy Program (January 1998-present)
PhD City and Regional Planning, Cornell University (1998)
Pre-doctoral Fellow, Center for International Security and Arms Control, Stanford University (1996-7)
Visiting Scholar, School of Design and Law School, Harvard University (1996) MRP City and Regional Planning, Cornell University (1995)
BA Development Studies, Brown University, magna cum laude and high honors (1989)

Courses

Development Financial Analysis
Studio: Revitalizing Urban Business Districts
Urban Economic Development
The History and Theory of Urban Planning
Advanced Planning Theory
Financing Industrial Development

Research

Urban and regional economic development; development finance; municipal government law; planning theory; industrial restructuring; public finance.

Publications

“The Impact of Tax Increment Financing on Residential Property Values” (with Saurav Dev Bhatta and David Merriman), Regional Science and Urban Economics Spring 2007

“Valuing New Development in Distressed Urban Neighborhoods: Does Design Matter?” (with Brent Ryan), f Journal of the American Planning Association Winter 2007

“Getting the Max for the Tax: Applying Performance Measures to Business Improvement Districts” (with Gina Caruso). International Journal of Public Administration 29, 187-220, 2006.

“Tearing the City Down: Explaining the Incidence of Privately Initiated Demolitions” (with Marc Doussard, Saurav Dev Bhatta, and Daniel McGrath). Journal of Urban Affairs, Winter 2005.

“Does Tax Increment Financing Increase the Value of Urban Industrial Property?” (with David Merriman and Saurav Dev Bhatta) Urban Studies 40:10, September 2003

“Assets and Neighborhoods: The Role of Individual Assets in Neighborhood Revitalization.” (with and Janet Smith) Housing Policy Debate 14: 1-2, June 2003

“Equity and Entrepreneurialism: The Impact of Tax Increment Financing on School District Finances.” Urban Affairs Review 38:5, May 2003

“Contracting In: How a Business Intermediary Sought to Create Supplier Networks and Jobs” (with Susanne Schnell). Economic Development Quarterly 17:2, May 2003

“Introduction to Focus Section: Low-Wage Labor Markets" (with Nik Theodore). Economic Development Quarterly 16:4, November 2002

“Extracting Value from the City: Neoliberalism and Urban Redevelopment.” Antipode 34:3, Summer 2002

“Do Better Contracts Make Better Economic Development Incentives?” Journal of the American Planning Association 68:1, Winter 2002

Swords into Dow Shares: Governing the Decline of the Military-Industrial Complex. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001

Contact

rachelw@uic.edu
Room 236
312-355-0307