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Metropolitan Planning Organizations And Climate Change Action, Susan G. Mason, Michail Fragkias
Metropolitan Planning Organizations And Climate Change Action, Susan G. Mason, Michail Fragkias
Urban Studies and Community Development Faculty Publications and Presentations
Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO) sit at a unique nexus of government arrangements and missions that could be effective for addressing issues of climate change. Using survey and secondary data this study investigates the potential of metropolitan planning organizations to play a formative role in climate change action and policy. We examine factors that promote MPOs involvement in climate change issues by bridging two types of literatures in a quantitative modeling framework: the institutional responses to environmental change, driven by conceptualization of urban systems as social-ecological systems, and the public policy, regional planning and local politics literature. We find robust MPOs, …
Exploring Patterns Of Tax Increment Financing Use And Structural Explanations In Missouri’S Major Metropolitan Regions, Susan G. Mason, Kenneth P. Thomas
Exploring Patterns Of Tax Increment Financing Use And Structural Explanations In Missouri’S Major Metropolitan Regions, Susan G. Mason, Kenneth P. Thomas
Urban Studies and Community Development Faculty Publications and Presentations
This article examines tax increment financing (TIF) in Kansas City and St. Louis, two heavy users of the tool under the same statutory authority. Based on a complete database of TIF projects through 2013 (2012 for Kansas City) and numerous interviews with local government officials in both metropolitan areas, we explore the TIF use of these two cities, which have different structural aspects and have gone through sharp policy changes, to examine if central cities that use different strategies beget different outcomes in their suburban areas. We document distinctly different patterns of use in the two central cities. When St. …