Students in the Ph.D. Program in Urban Studies and Public Affairs write dissertations in a wide range of topic areas:
- Public Administration
- Urban Planning and Development
- Nonprofit Administration
- Environmental Affairs
- Other Topics
| Public Adminstration |
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| Al-Habil, Wasim. 2008. Occupations, a diaspora, and the design of local governments for a Palestinian state. Proquest Link |
| Almajali, Mutasem A.W. 2003. How are we doing? Assessing public security of Jordan using data envelopment analysis and cross-sectional regression analysis (two-year case study). Proquest Link |
| Alsarraf, Hani. 2008. Policy administration and political rights: The experiences of high-level women in the Kuwaiti government. Proquest Link |
| Benavides, Abraham D. 2002. New public management's administrative technologies and procedural due process: Searching for justice. Proquest Link |
| Brennan, John. 2006. An intellectual history of metropolitan government in the United States. Proquest Link |
| Burrows, Melissa K. 2004. Service delivery in the administrative state: Faith-based organizations as a client satisfaction alternative. Proquest Link |
| DeHart, Armetia. 2003. Institutional leadership in higher education: An inquiry into perspectives and roles of college and university presidents in public institutions. Proquest Link |
| Dunn, Ronnie A. 2004. Spatial profiling: To what extent do the Cleveland Police Department's traffic ticketing patterns target blacks? Proquest Link |
| Eubanks, Gail K. 2002. Overcoming adversity: Narrative construction in autobiographies of border crossings. Proquest Link |
| Farrell, Paula G. 2004. A framework for understanding the use of IT in public organizations. Proquest Link |
| Fornaro, Michael A. 2004. The return to city movement by the multiple-choice generation: A case study of the Saint Hyacinth neighborhood. Proquest Link |
| Ghaffari, Masoud. 2000. Intelligence: E pluribus unum. An ontological and epistemological inquiry. Proquest Link |
| Holland, Vincent. 2014. Reform Where Is Thy Victory? : A Study of the Reform Efforts in Summit, Allegheny and Cuyahoga Counties. Engaged Scholarship |
| Molina, Anthony D. 2004. Practical knowledge, citizenship, and virtue: An Aristotelian approach to public administration. Proquest Link |
| Momen, Mehnaaz. 2002. On becoming marginal: The state and the citizen. Proquest Link |
| Moss, Antoine. 2011. Generation Y ; An Exploratory Study of Worker Experiences, Values and Attitudes in the Federal Government. Engaged Scholarship |
| Mothusi, Bashi. 2008. Public Sector Reforms and Managing Change in Botswana;the Case of Performance Management System (Pms). Engaged Scholarship |
| Peffer, Shelly. 2008. Tenuous Legitimacy;the Administrative State, the Antigovernment Movement, and the Stability of the United States Constitutional Democracy. Engaged Scholarship |
| Piccorelli, Justin. 2014. The Aesthetic Experience and Artful Public Administration. Engaged Scholarship |
| Salmi, Steven. 2010. To Reframe a Constitution: Public Service in a Consumptive State. Engaged Scholarship |
| Slone, Wendy J. 2006. Discretion and the administrator: The case of child care reform in Ohio. Proquest Link |
| Thomas, Lisa. 2008. Catharine Macaulay and the Liberal and Republican Origins of American Public Administration. Engaged Scholarship |
| White, Hope E. 2004. Active citizenship and welfare reform at the local level. Proquest Link |
| Wickstrom, Craig. 2017. A Post-Critical Science of Administration: Toward a Society of Explorers. Engaged Scholarship |
| Urban PLANNING AND dEVELOPMENT |
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| Alexander, Serena. 2016. From planning to action: An evaluation of state level climate action plans. Proquest Link |
| Andrew James, McMillan. 2013. Multifamily Units in the Dispersed City: Measuring Infill and Development by Neighborhood Type in the Kansas City Region. |
| Bragg, Albert A. 2020. A journey toward sustainable behavior: A project to stimulate reduced electricity consumption. ProQuest Link |
| Choi, Eugene. 2010. Adaptive reuse of religious buildings in the U.S.: Determinants of project outcomes and the role of tax credits. Proquest Link |
| Clouse, Candice Marie. 2017. The Role of Place Image in Business Location Decisions. Engaged Scholarship |
| Deborah, Riemann. 2013. The Impact Of Plans, Policies And Practices Of Metropolitan Planning Organizations On The Design And Implementation Of Streets For All Users. |
| El Jaouhari, Abdellaziz. 2004. Urban primacy and the role of trade openness. Proquest Link |
| Gurney, Karen. 2012. The Local Economic Growth Impact of Broadband Infrastructure 1998 to 2008. Engaged Scholarship |
| Hong, Chansun. 2018. The Spatial Spillover Impact of Land Bank Properties on Nearby Home Sale Values in Cleveland, OH Link |
| Ijla, Akram. 2008. The impact of local historical designation on residential property value: An analysis of three slow-growth and three fast-growth central cities in the United States. Proquest Link |
| Joo, Mijin. 2011. Are amenities important for the migration of highly educated workers? The role of built-amenities in the migration of highly educated workers. Proquest Link |
| Jung, Hyejin. 2015. The impact of entrepreneurship in regional resilience: A spatial analysis of the Gulf Coast region. Proquest Link |
| Kang, Hoje. 2004. Detecting dynamic processes of agglomeration in the product life cycle and sudden changes using space-time clustering analyses. Proquest Link |
| Kim, Songpyo. 2011. Inventive thought in endogenous economic development: An empirical comparison of Darwinian and Lamarckian approaches. Engaged Scholarship |
| Kinahan, Kelly. 2016. Neighborhood revitalization and historic preservation in U.S. legacy cities. Proquest Link |
| Kobie, Timothy. 2010. Residential foreclosures' impact on nearby single-family residential properties: A new approach to the spatial and temporal dimensions. Proquest Link |
| Kumar, Mukesh. 2004. Employment centers as self-organizing complex systems: An empirical evaluation. Proquest Link |
| Lee, Eun. 2016. Green Buildings: Lease Structure, Productivity, and Regional Economic Impacts. Engaged Scholarship |
| Lendel, Iryna. 2008. The influence of research universities on technology-based regional economic development. Proquest Link |
| Lim, Taekyoung. 2017. Multilevel Governmental Efforts for Energy Efficiency: Policy Adoption, Implemenation, and Evaluation under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Engaged Scholarship |
| Matheny, Erica. 2012. A survey of the structural determinants of local emergency planning committee compliance and proactivity: Towards an applied theory of precaution in emergency management. Proquest Link |
| Park, Gil-Hwan. 2009. Economic and social networks: Impacts on regional economic outcomes and concentrations. Proquest Link |
| Park, Mi Seon. 2010. Housing choice voucher program: Patterns and factors of spatial concentration in Cleveland. Proquest Link |
| Piazza, Merissa. 2018. Catching the Gazelle: Antecedents and Outcomes of High Growth Firms. Engaged Scholarship |
| Ramadan, Wael. 2009. The Influence of Organizational Culture on Sustainable Competitive Advantage of Small and Medium Sized Establishments, Best Business Practices for Achieving World-Class Status, the Link Between Business & Region. Engaged Scholarship |
| Saginor, Jesse. 2006. Eminent domain and its use as an economic development tool. Proquest Link |
| Shelton, Jon. 2011. Three essays on innovation and regional economic development. Proquest Link |
| Shroitman-Sarig, Tamar. 2006. Downtown characteristics and regional economic performance. Proquest Link |
| Stewart, Lillian. 2015. The job of human capital: What occupational data reveal about skill sets, economic growth and regional competitiveness. Proquest Link |
| Vincent, Vinola. 2014. Vehicle fuel economy and vehicle miles traveled: An empirical investigation of Jevons' paradox. Proquest Link |
| Yeom, Minkyu. 2018. Identifying, explaining, and rethinking gentrification. Proquest Link |
| Nonprofit Administration |
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| Groble, Patricia A. 2018. Who's in charge here? Exercising authority in the organization-volunteer relationship. Proquest Link |
| Ilhan, Habibe. 2006. Islamic nonprofit organizations in the post 9/11 era: A qualitative case study to investigate the effects of national security measures on Islamic nonprofit organizations in Cleveland. Proquest Link |
| Nank, Renee D. 2004. The practice of partnership: A study of a government-nonprofit contract. Proquest Link |
| Environmental Affairs |
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| Guasp, Edwin. 2006. A water utility framework to analyze the distribution of water quality services: A case study analysis on water disinfectant levels in Cuyahoga county, Ohio. Proquest Link |
| Laverne, Robert. 2016. Loss of urban forest canopy and the related effects on soundscape and human directed attention. Proquest Link |
| Park, Sunjoo. 2013. The Influence of State-Level Renewable Energy Policy Instruments on Electricity Generation in the United States: a Cross-Sectional Time Series Analysis. Engaged Scholarship |
| Samanta, Aritree. 2017. "Policy Is What We Make of It": an Interpretive Study of Governance in an Urban Watershed. Engaged Scholarship |
| Schaberg, Beth. 2007. The influence of scientific claims on an emerging environmental issue. Proquest Link |
| Song, Chang-Shik. 2013. Effects of spatial structure on air quality level in U.S. metropolitan areas. Proquest Link |
| Winson-Geideman, Kimberly K. 2003. The effects of contamination on post-remediation residential property values. Proquest Link |
| Other Topics |
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| An, Da Young. 2013. A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of STEM-programs in the United States. Proquest Link |
| Burton, Heather. 2007. The black church as a mediating structure: Case studies of critical incidents in Cleveland, Ohio. Proquest Link |
| Haynes, Marie. 2010. Urban college graduates: Their investments in and returns for strong quantitative skills, social capital skills, and soft skills. Proquest Link |
| Johnson, Terri. 2015. What has faith got to do with it? Developing a theoretical model for the emerging faith-based organization: A case analysis. Proquest Link |
| Kandula, Uday. 2012. Do the causes of poverty vary by neighborhood type? Proquest Link |
| Khoramshahi, Reza. 2013. Factors That Contribute to Effectiveness of Foster Care Networks in Securing Permanency for Children: An Exploration of Network Participants' Perceptions in Urban and Rural Settings. Engaged Scholarship |
| Liao, Hsin-Chung. 2010. The association of spatial accessibility to health care services with health utilization and health status among people with disabilities. Proquest Link |
| Seo, Youngme. 2009. Who cares about school quality? The role of school quality in household preference, school district choice, and willingness to pay. Proquest Link |
| Stuart, Glen. 2009. A benefit/cost analysis of three student enrollment behaviors at a community college: Dropout, transfer, and completion of an Associate's degree/certificate. Proquest Link |
| Swetkis, Doreen. 2009. Residential property tax abatement: Testing a model of neighborhood impact. Proquest Link |
| Weisblat, Gina, 2006. Neighborhood leadership training: Does it impact neighborhood social capital capacity? Proquest Link |