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Housing, demographies and population movement, economic development, land use, and planning methods.

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Consumer Preference for Neotraditional Neighborhood Characteristics with Elena Irwin and Brian Roe, forthcoming in Housing Policy Debate , 2005, 1:

Challenges of City Planning and City Development in the US: Current Situation and Prognosis with Edward J. Malecki and Katrin B. Anacker, Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen, 2004, 1: 42-49.

The Effects of Farmland, Farmland Preservation and Other Neighborhood Amenities on Housing Values and Residential Growth: Results of a Conjoint Analysis of Housing Choice with Brian Roe and Elena Irwin, Land Economics, Vol. 80, no. 1, Feb. 2004, pp. 55 – 75.

Changes in Homeowner Preferences for Housing Density Following September 11, 2001 with Brian Roe and Elena G. Irwin. Submitted to Economic Letters, fall 2003.

Intrauban Mobility and Metropolitan Spatial Structure with Tae Kyung Kim and Mark Horner, submitted to Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie (in English), fall, 2003.

Transformation at the Urban Edge; Impacts of Homeowner Mobility Decisions in the US invited chapter in Sustainable Urban Development in International Context (tentative title), ed. By Prof. Dr. Bernhard Mueller. In German. To appear in 2003.

Homeowner Decisions and the Thinning Metropolis in Proceedings of the Thinning Metropolis Conference, co-sponsored by the Brookings Institution, Cornell University and the Lincoln Land Institute. Sept. 2000. CD-ROM available from Cornell University.

Repeat Home Buyers and American Urban Structure 1998 in a special issue of Urban Geography entitled Metropolitan Change: Elasticity, Housing and Policy in Ohio Cities. Guest Editor of the issue.

Central City Distress in Ohio’s Elastic Cities: Regional and Local Policy Responses with Samuel Aryeetey-Attoh, Frank Costa and Charles Monroe, 1998, in a special issue of Urban Geography entitled Metropolitan Change: Elasticity, Housing and Policy in Ohio Cities.

Mortgage Insurance article in the Housing Encyclopedia, Sage Press (edited by Willem van Vliet--), 1998.

Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act of 1987 article in the Housing Encyclopedia, Sage Press (edited by Willem van Vliet--), 1998.

Secondary Mortgage Market article in the Housing Encyclopedia, Sage Press (edited by Willem van Vliet--), 1998.

Federal Housing Administration 1998. article in the Housing Encyclopedia, Sage Press (edited by Willem van Vliet--), 1998.

An Urban Rental Housing Expenditure Model Using Ordinary and Two-Stage Least Squares Method with Dong Hoon Oh in The Journal of Korea Planners Association, Vol. 32, no.1, Feb. 1997.

Moving Upward and Outward: Residential Mobility Trends and their Implications for Ohio’s Metropolitan Areas, senior author with Stephen Howe, Samuel Aryeetey-Attoh and Thomas Bier. In refereed proceedings of the 6th Annual International Applied Demography Conference, 1996.

Black-White Differences in the Demographic Structure of the Move to Homeownership in the United States, invited chapter in Hays, R. Allen (ed.) Ownership, Control, and the Future of Housing. Greenwood Press, 1993.

America's Changing Population: Census Monograph Series, The Population of the United States in the 1980s, Review and Commentary in Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 13, no. 2, 1991, 243 - 250.

Mobility Due to Natural Disaster: Theoretical Considerations and Preliminary Analyses (senior author with Charles R. Morrow-Jones), Disasters, Vol. 15, no. 2, 1991, pp. 126 - 132.

Housing Tenure Change in American Suburbs, in a special issue of Urban Geography, Vol. 10, no. 4, 316 - 335, 1989.

The Geography of Housing: Housing Over the Life Course, Urban Geography, Vol. 10, no. 5, 487 - 494, 1989.

Changes in Housing Tenure and Location in the American City invited chapter in a collection on urban geography by American geographers, edited by John S. Adams. Published in Russian by the Institute of Geography of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1989. Available in English.

The Homeless in Colorado first author with Willem van Vliet, Invited chapter in J.A. Momeni (ed.) Homelessness in the United States, Greenwood Press, 1989, pp. 21 - 38.

The Housing Life Cycle and the Transition from Renting to Owning a Home in the United States: A Multistate Analysis, Environment and Planning A Vol. 20, no. 9, 1165 - 1184, 1988.

The Student as Minister of Development: An Exercise in World Geography, Journal of Geography, Vol. 87, no. 4, 1988, 141 - 145.

Denver Disaster: Relocation of Forced Movers, second author with Joan Besly in A. David Hill (ed.) Placing Geography in the Curriculum, Center for Geographic Education, Department of Geography, Campus Box 260, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0260, 1988, pp. 181 - 205.

The Geography of Housing: Housing Policy Urban Geography, Vol. 8, no. 6, 577 - 584, 1987.

Neighborhood Change and the Federal Housing Administration: Some Theoretical and Empirical Issues Urban Studies, Vol. 23, no. 5, 419 - 428, 1986.

The Geography of Housing: Elderly and Female Households Urban Geography, Vol. 7, no. 3, 263 - 269, 1986.

Small Area Population Estimates Using Aerial Photography second author with John F. Watkins in Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, Vol. 51, no. 12, 1933 - 1935, 1985.

World Regional Geography in Geography in Internationalizing the Undergraduate Curriculum, Association of American Geographers, Resource Publication for College Geography, Salvatore J. Natoli (ed.), Series #85-1, 1985. Selected from submissions for this volume. pp. 83 - 86.

The Geography of the Secondary Mortgage Market, Great Plains-Rocky Mountain Geographical Journal Vol. 11, no. 1, 111 - 120, 1983.

Federal Mortgage Insurance and the Characteristics of Intraurban Movers, Population Research and Policy Review Vol. 2, no. 1, 85 - 103, 1983.

Federal Housing Policy, Neighborhood Change and Policy Reform in the American City, invited chapter in K.R.Cox and R. J. Johnston (eds.), Conflict, Politics, and the Urban Scene: Case Studies in Urban Political Geography, Longmans, 1982, pp. 170 - 190.

Housing Policy and Urban Patterns in an Industrial Society second author with George J. Demko, invited paper in Donald Deskins, Jr. (ed.) Impact of Urbanization and Industrialization on the Landscape, Proceedings of the American-Hungarian Geography Seminar, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, 1980, pp. 65 - 78.

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The Impact of the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 on American Metropolitan Household Decisions to Stay in the Same Residence, to Remodel or to Move. Report to the National Science Foundation, Geography and Regional Science Program on SGER grant. Fall, 2003.

Analysis of Home Ownership Rates with ACS Data: A Case Study for Franklin County, Ohio with Katrin Anacker. Working paper 03-01 in the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis series, the Ohio State University, fall, 2003.

Predicting Home ownership in Neighborhoods: An Experimental Analysis with American Community Survey Data for Franklin County, Ohio with Katrin Anacker and Wenqin Chen. Working paper 03-02 in the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis series, the Ohio State University, fall, 2003.

The American Community Survey and the Study of Home ownership: Comparison to Other Data Sets with Malik Watkins. Working paper 03-03 in the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis series, the Ohio State University, fall, 2003.

The Future of Industrial Regions in Decline – Conversations between the U.S. and Europe with Bernhard Mueller. Working Paper no. 142 in the Institute for Ecological and Regional Working Papers, Technical Reports, Reviews and Notes Research series, Dresden, Germany (in English). Proceedings of the joint meetings (via video conference) of the Conference of the Network of Spatial Research Institutions in Central and Eastern Europe and the 2001 ACSP meetings in Cleveland, Ohio. 2002.

Transformation at the Urban Edge; Impacts of Homeowner Mobility Decisions in the US working paper at the Institute for Ecological and Regional Research, Dresden, Germany. In English. 2002.

Morrow-Jones, H.A. Climbing Higher on the Housing Ladder; Extending the Columbus Repeat Homebuyer Study Grant Report to the Center for Real Estate Education and Research, July, 2001.

The State of Ohio’s Regions: Land Use Prepared by the Ohio Housing Research Network for the Ohio Urban University Program, State of Ohio’s Urban Regions Project. #3. 2001.

Climbing the Housing Ladder: Repeat Homebuyers and Their Satisfaction with David A. Lipsetz. Research Report Number 68, Center for Real Estate Education and Research, Max M. Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, 2000.

Sustainable Regional and Urban Development in the Areas of Columbus (Ohio) and Dresden (Germany) with Bernhard Mueller of the Technical Institute of Dresden. Report to the Huntington Bank and the Dresdner Bank, 1999.

Upper Arlington’s Place on the Central Ohio Housing Ladder; Analysis of Deed Transfer and Surbvey Data Covering Repeat Home Buyers, Franklin county, 1995 report to the City of Upper Arlington, Aug., 1998

Homeowner Mobility: Choices, Policy and Urban Spatial Structure report to the Urban Affairs Program of the Ohio State University. April, 1998.

The Urban Implications of Linking Life State Factors and Residential Mobility (with Mary V. Wenning) a grant report to the Ohio State University Urban Affairs Committee. May 1995.

Moving Up and Out: Government Policy and the Future of Ohio's Metropolitan Areas coauthored with the rest of the Ohio Housing Research Network, Feb., 1994.

The IRS Homeseller Capital Gain Provision: Contributor to Urban Decline co-authored with the rest of the Ohio Housing Research Network, Jan. 1994.

The Demographic Structure of Residential Mobility in Ohio's Largest Cities; Differences Between Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati. Report to the Urban Affairs Committee of the Ohio State University, April, 1993.

Evaluation of the impact of target neighborhood status on house prices in Columbus study completed for the Columbus Housing Partnership, 1992.

The Housing of America's Community-Based Elderly Population: Current Patterns and Future Needs seed grant report to the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies at the Ohio State University, submitted 9/24/91.

The Effects of Federal Legislation on State and Local Efforts to Assist the Homeless in Ohio. Report to the Urban Affairs Committee of the Ohio State University. Submitted January, 1991.

Suburbanization of Ohio Metropolitan Areas 980 - 2000 a report of a collaborative research project involving seven Ohio Urban Universities under the auspices of the Ohio Urban University Program of the Ohio General Assembly and the Ohio Board of Regents. (I did the Columbus analysis, and am one of 9 listed authors.) 1990.

Racial Differences in Housing Occupancy Patterns and Transitions: A Multistate Analysis grant report to the Geography and Regional Science Program of the National Science Foundation, summer, 1988.

Mobility Due to Natural Disaster grant report to the Natural Hazards Center of the Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, June, 1987.

A Multistate Analysis of the Transition from Renting to Owning a Home in the United States Working Paper WP-86-10 Population Program, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, 1986.

The Impact of the Housing Affordability Crisis on First Time Home Buyers report for the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, 8/29/86, 144 pp.

Population Flows and Capital Flows: The Effect of Inmigration on the Interregional Movement of Mortgage Funds report submitted to the Association of American Geographers, 1983.

Federal Housing Policy and Mortgage Capital Flows report submitted to the University of Colorado Junior Faculty Development Award Committee, 1982.

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Race and Homeownership with Mary Wenning, submitted to the Western Ohio Research Consortium, Feb. 2004.

The Differences in Financial, Mortgage, and Real Estate Market Knowledge between African American and White Renters and Homeowners with Donald Haurin submitted to the State of Ohio Real Estate Education and Research Committee, Fall, 2003.

The Differences in Financial, Mortgage, and Real Estate Market Knowledge between African American and White Renters and Homeowners with Donald Haurin submitted to Fannie Mae, Fall 2003.

Analyzing Mature Suburbs through Property Values: Excessive Sprawl, Scarce Reinvestments and Large Disparities. US Department of Housing and Urban Development. $14,900. Sept. 2002 through Aug. 2003. Title: $14,610.60. USDHUD

The American Community Survey and Homeownership from the US Bureau of the Census, $24,000. November, 2001 – June 2003.

The Impact of the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 on American Metropolitan Household Decisions to Stay in the Same Residence, to Remodel or to Move. SGER grant from NSF, Geography and Regional Science Program. November, 2001. $39,000.

Sustainable Urban Development grant from the Huntington Bank (with matching funds from the Dresdner Bank for the German side). Three years of funding for continued research and teaching exchange. $30,000. For 2000 through 2002.

Climbing Higher on the Housing Ladder funding from Central Ohio First Suburbs to extend survey research. $2000.

Movement and Home Price Patterns in Ohio’s Metropolitan Areas grant to the Ohio Housing Research Network from the Urban Universities Program for $55,655. Granted in Sept. 1998.

Climbing Higher on the Housing Ladder grant from the Center for Real Estate Education and Research for the Ohio Commission on Real Estate, March, 1998, $28,500.

Mapping Ohio’s Urban Areas with the Ohio Housing Research Network from the Urban Universities Program, 1997.

Sustainable Regional and Urban Development in the Areas of Columbus (Ohio) and Dresden (Germany) with Bernhard Mueller of the Technical Institute of Dresden. 40,000DM/year for three years from the Dresden Bank and the Huntington Bank. Awarded in 1996-97, continued in 1997-98, and 1998-99.

Climbing the Housing Ladder grant from the Ohio Real Estate Commission for $5000. Granted in 1996.

Addressing Ohio Metropolitan Zoning Patterns grant to the Ohio Housing Research Network and the Ohio GIS Network from the Urban Universities Program $40,000. Granted in 1996.

Request to the Urban Universities Program from the Ohio Housing Research Network for $18,000 to bring David Rusk to all of the member cities. Granted in 1995.

Moving and Staying on the Rural-Urban Fringe with Elena Irwin funded by the Rural-Urban Fringe Task Force, College of FAES, the Ohio State University. $8000. Dec. 2000.

Moving and Staying Among American Homeowners; Implications for Regional Growth and Governance with Elena Irwin. Funded by the Urban Affairs Committee at the Ohio State University for $17,000. June 2000.

Rural-Urban Fringe Initiative with Larry Libby (AEDE) submitted to OSU’s Academic Enrichment process. Submitted to FAES on Dec. 5, 1998. Not funded, but revised and resubmitted in 2000.

Sprawl and Repeat Home Buyers: How Far Out is Far Enough? funded by the Urban Affairs Committee for 1998-99 AY, $19,953.

Sprawl and Repeat Home Buyers funds from C. William Swank Chair in Rural-Urban Fringe Issues to extend survey research. $5000.

Web Page for International Urban Development Seminar funded by University Technology Services' Instructional Small Grant Program, $1000. 1997. Description on UTS Best Practices web site -- http://www-best.uts.ohio-state.edu/best_practices/bp_home.cgi

Deed Transfers in the Campus Partners Area funded by the Campus Collaborative for $920 for the summer of 1997.

Simplifying ArcView for Teaching with Maps funded by the University Technology Services’ Instructional Small Grant program, $1000. 1996-97.

Homeowner Mobility: Choices, Policy and Urban Spatial Structure   funded by the Urban Affairs Program of the Ohio State University. July, 1996 - June, 1997. $20,000.

The Urban Policy Implications of Linking Life State Factors and Residential Mobility funded by the Urban Affairs Program of the Ohio State University. July, 1993 - June, 1994. $16,889.

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How Damning is Density presentation to the PhD colloquium in Public Policy and Management, The Ohio State University. Nov. 21, 2003.

The Inside of Sprawl presented to the fourth year Architecture studio at the Ohio State University, Oct. 24, 2003.

The Inside of Suburban Sprawl presented to the City of South Bend, Indiana as a keynote talk in their Comprehensive Planning series. May 13, 2003.

The Demand for Neotraditional Neighborhood Characteristics with Elena Irwin and Brian Roe. Submitted for the national meetings of the American Collegiate Schools of Planning, Baltimore, Nov., won the Fannie Mae Best Conference Paper in Housing and Community Development. 2002.

Estimating the Benefits of Farmland Preservation to Homeowners: Results of a Conjoint Analysis of Housing Choice with Elena Irwin and Brian Roe. presented at the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) annual meetings, Long Beach, CA, July 2002.

Bridging a Gap - The Benefits of Distance Learning and Intercontinental Scholarly Exchange Programs for Students, Faculty and Institutions (The case of the Dresden – Columbus Program on Sustainable Urban and Regional Development) with Bernhard Mueller in the conference proceedings of the Shanghai International Planning Conference Invited CURA presentation, with Edward J. Malecki to the Ohio Governor’s Staff Retreat, Oct. Video conference with the Network of Spatial Research Institutes in Central and Eastern Europe organized and presented for the American Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference in November. Organized and moderated. 2001.

County Auditors Records and Survey Data for Urban Analysis Invited speaker at the national Fannie Mae workshop on Census 2000 in Cleveland, November 2001.

Climbing Higher on the Housing Ladder; Extending the Columbus Repeat Homebuyer Study Presentation to the Education and Research Liaison Committee of the Ohio Real Estate Commission, 2001.

Moving Up and Out in Columbus presentation to the Ohio Planning Conference, Akron, October 2001.

Homeowner Decisions and the Thinning Metropolis invited paper for the Thinning Metropolis Conference at Cornell University, Sept. 2000

Homeowner Choices in Residential Mobility: Community Characteristics as Push and Pull Factors for Repeat Home Buyers paper presented at the ACSP conference, Atlanta, Nov. 2000.

Transformation at the US Urban Edge presented at international conference in Dresden, Germany. June 2000.

The Motivation of Repeat Home Buyers; Who Moves Where and Why paper presented at the annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers. April 2000.

The American Dream, Sprawl and the Older Suburbs: How Far Out is Far Enough? paper presented at the refereed ACSP conference in Chicago, fall 1999 for a special session on Sprawl, Home Buyers and the Fate of Older Suburbs.

How Far Out is Far Enough? presented in the Kuhn Honors House fireside chat series and to the Sociology Department’s graduate research series, winter quarter 1999.

Repeat Home Buyers and the American Dream: How Far Out is Far Enough presented in the Growing Inward Series at the Columbus Metropolitan Club, March 10, 1999.

Moving Up the Housing Ladder: Implications for Communities presented at the 1998 Public Law and Policy Program sponsored by Squire, Sanders and Dempsey in cooperation with the Levin College of Urban Affairs of Cleveland State University and the Ohio State University, Oct. 14, 1998.

Suburban Sprawl in the US and Its Urban Consequences presented in Dresden, Germany, June , 1998.

Land Use and the Housing Ladder presentation to the Rural-Urban Fringe Study Group, The Ohio State University, April, 1998.

Motivation for Repeat Home Buyer Moves presented to the Economic Issues and Trends forum of the Ohio Association of Realtors, March, 1998.

 Climbing the Housing Ladder presented to the Education and Research Liaison subcommittee (associated with the Ohio Center for Real Estate Education and Research), Oct.

Moving up and Moving Out: Implications for Inner Suburbs presented to an ad hoc group gathered by the City of Upper Arlington, Oct., and to a group of representatives from Central Ohio’s inner suburbs convened by the Mid Ohio Regional Planning Commission, Oct.

Homeowner Movement and its Implications for Regional Cooperation presented at the Co-operative Urban Development workshop in Dresden, Germany, July.

Home Ownership and the Housing Career paper presented at the International Conference on Housing and the Built Environment, Alexandria, Va. June. I organized and chaired the panel and presented a paper. Other presenters include Dowell Myers (University of Southern California and Suzanne Davies Withers (University of Georgia).

Homeowner Movement within a Metropolitan Region paper presented at the Growth and the Future and Land Use Conference for all of Ohio.

Housing and Demographic Forecasting in Ohio’s Cities paper presented at the International Applied Demography Conference. Bowling Green, OH Sept. 1996.

Women and Homeownership invited speech to Ohio State University focus group on the Critical Difference for Women Program. April 15, 1996.

Residential Mobility Patterns among Homeowners: the Impact of School District presented at the national meetings of the Association of American Geographers, April.

Looking for Green Acres presentation to the Managing Change Conference, Columbus, OH, Sept.

Residential Mobility or Housing Adjustment: Reactions to Life Cycle Change with Mary Wenning, submitted for presentation at the Detroit ACSP meetings.

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