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Ryan Lugalia-Hollon

Predoctoral Fellow, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy
Email: rhollo2@uic.edu

Educational Background

Ph.D. Candidate, Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago. 2008-2011
• Distinguished Graduate Scholarship Recipient
Masters of Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago. 2005-2006
• Graduate Studies. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, Mexico.
B.A. in Anthropology with Honors, University of Chicago. 2001-2004

Sustainable Safety                                                                            

This project is focused on the public safety system, a dimension of cities that greatly influences how people navigate the outdoor world.  I ask the question – How do neighborhood safety dynamics influence the resident-environment relationship? These safety dynamics include crime, the fear of crime, and government responses to crime.  My hypothesis is that neighborhood safety concerns constrict the ways that residents relate to both the built and natural environments, and that these constrictions combine to reduce energy-efficient behaviors. I will test this hypothesis through a qualitative research study in the Austin neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side, an area with high rates of both crime and incarceration and thus serious public safety challenges.