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Papers by Mickey Lauria

Society & Natural Resources, 2021

Abstract In the US, land records are fragmented and difficult to assemble. This paper details iss... more Abstract In the US, land records are fragmented and difficult to assemble. This paper details issues of access to land records from traditional land record institutions within US counties, focusing on conservation easements (CEs), CE geospatial data, and tax-assessment data. This paper also explores the issue of privacy related to CE land records and land trusts, the primary type of non-profit that holds CEs. Previous literature has cited landowner concerns about privacy as a driving force behind land trust’s hesitancies to share information. However, we find evidence that landowner privacy concerns may be overestimated and more nuanced than previously reported. Additionally, we document widespread issues related to access of CE documents from register of deed’s offices. This paper supports reforms to better track CEs within register of deeds offices and reforms to make land records data more accessible for pluralistic societal needs and to support inclusion in environmental governance.

Political Geography Quarterly, Jul 1, 1985

Environment and Planning A, Jun 1, 1992

Routledge eBooks, Mar 17, 2022

International journal of disaster risk reduction, May 1, 2023

SAGE Publications, Inc. eBooks, 1997

Introduction - Mickey Lauria Reconstructing Urban Regime Theory PART ONE: CONCEPTUALIZING THE REG... more Introduction - Mickey Lauria Reconstructing Urban Regime Theory PART ONE: CONCEPTUALIZING THE REGULATION OF URBAN REGIMES Concrete Research, Urban Regimes, and Regulation Theory - Mark Goodwin and Joe Painter Spatial Structures of Regulation and Urban Regimes - Marshall M A Feldman A Neo-Gramscian Approach to the Regulation of Urban Regimes - Bob Jessop Accumulation Strategies, Hegemonic Projects, and Governance PART TWO: RECONSTRUCTING URBAN REGIME ABSTRACTIONS City Politics in an Era of Globalization - Christopher Leo Governance, Urban Regime Analysis, and the Politics of Local Economic Development - Kevin R Cox Regulation, Regime, and Practice in Urban Politics - Joe Painter PART THREE: CONCRETE RESEARCH: REGULATING URBAN POLITICS IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY Coalition, Market and State - Cynthia Horan Postwar Development Politics in Boston City Planning and the Postwar Regime in Philadelphia - Robert A Beauregard Cleveland the `Comeback City' - W Dennis Keating The Politics of Redevelopment and Sports Stadiums amidst Decline Regulating Suburban Politics - Andrew E G Jonas `Suburban-Defense Transition', Institutional Capacities, and Territorial Reorganization in Southern California PART FOUR: REGULATING URBAN REGIMES Regulating Urban Regimes - Mickey Lauria Reconstruction or Impasse

Urban Geography, Jan 19, 2015

Most social scientists would argue that natural disasters are not natural but rather nature’s for... more Most social scientists would argue that natural disasters are not natural but rather nature’s forces colliding in a disastrous fashion with human systems, especially human settlements and their bui...

This thesis analyses the meanings and experiences of reciprocity in heterosexual sexual encounter... more This thesis analyses the meanings and experiences of reciprocity in heterosexual sexual encounters. Reciprocity, synonymous with mutuality and ‘giving and taking’, is a moral norm that traditionally refers to a concept of balance and equity, assuming the gratification of every party involved. However, as the theoretical framework I developed in the first chapter shows, reciprocity is often an ambiguous concept: far from guaranteeing the effective equality of the relationship, it entails pressures and status of obligation. Assuming that in heterosexual sex reciprocity can involve different types of giving and taking, I explore how this is imagined on a personal level. For this purpose, as I explain in the second chapter, I established ethnography as the method of my research. In particular, this thesis is based on six interviews to six young women. In the third chapter I present the three main discourses that emerged: reciprocity as an exchange of orgasms, reciprocity as an exchange of sexual practices and reciprocity as an exchange of attention and care. Focusing on how these discourses are performed during heterosexual sex, I discuss the limits of reciprocity by considering it in terms of an exchange of orgasm and sexual practices, legitimising expectations and status of obligation – and generating pressures that can lead to coercion. Instead, reciprocity become meaningful if understood as the attention of each partner to the other, with the decisive role of communication in ensuring an equitable, enjoyable and respectful encounter. In the fourth chapter, I explore how such communication is experienced in sex, identifying problems and resistance in expressing one's own sexual desires and boundaries related to heterosexual scripts and mainstream discourses on heterosexual sex. Finally, I discuss the importance of a sexual education which promotes dialogue in sex and which breaks the taboo and stigmatisation of sexual pleasure – especially women’s

Journal of Planning Education and Research, Sep 1, 1997

Housing Studies, 2019

This paper describes environmental exposures of adult participants in the Moving to Opportunity f... more This paper describes environmental exposures of adult participants in the Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing (MTO) experiment over a four to seven year period from baseline to the interim evaluation. The MTO experiment randomized participants living in public housing or private assisted housing at baseline into experimental and control groups and provided a housing voucher for experimental group participants to move to neighborhoods with less than 10 percent of the population below the poverty line. However, few studies have examined how this move affected exposures to health promoting environments. We used data on residential locations of MTO participants and archival data on the built and food environment to construct environmental exposure variables. MTO participants in the experimental and Section 8 groups lived in neighborhoods with higher food prices, less high intensity development and more open space relative to the control group. The findings suggest that housing policies can have potential health consequences by altering health-related environmental exposures.

Reconstructing Urban Regime Theory: Regulating Urban Politics in a Global Economy

Housing Policy Debate, 2012

The editors extend sincere thanks to the following individuals who completed manuscript reviews w... more The editors extend sincere thanks to the following individuals who completed manuscript reviews within the period of January 2011-July 2012. We apologize for any omissions.

Health & Place, 2021

The food environment has been associated with fruit and vegetable consumption, however many studi... more The food environment has been associated with fruit and vegetable consumption, however many studies utilize cross-sectional research designs. This study examined 3,473 participants in the Moving to Opportunity experiment, who were randomized into groups that affected where they lived. The relationship between the built environment, food prices and neighborhood poverty, assessed over four to seven years, on fruit or vegetable consumption was examined using instrumental variable analysis. Higher food prices and neighborhood poverty were associated with lower fruit or vegetable consumption. Policies and programs that address food prices should be implemented and evaluated for their effects on fruit and vegetable consumption.

Learning from Arnstein’s Ladder, 2020