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Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning

# overview
Dr. Ivis Garc?a received her Ph.D. in Urban Planning & Policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2015. Dr. Garc?a will join the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A&M University as an Associate Professor Fall of 2022. Dr. Garc?a previously taught graduate and undergraduate community engagement in planning, planning communication, and studio courses in Chicago, Puerto Rico, and Salt Lake City. She also led the Westside Leadership Institute, an innovative undergraduate course that residents and students take together to develop a community project. Dr. Garc?a's research focuses on engagement, housing, and community development. She has received over $1 million in external research funding, including EPA, National Science Foundation, and the Natural Hazard Center. Dr. Garc?a has written 38 peer-reviewed journal articles, five book chapters, and 37 technical reports--including the first American Planning Association PAS Report on diversity, "Planning with Diverse Communities." Ivis has given 56 keynote or invited talks--including funded addresses at U. de Guadalajara, Columbia University, and Georgia Tech. Dr. Garc?a has chaired 15 master's committees and served on 11 Ph.D. committees. For her housing justice work in Puerto Rico with disaster victims, Ivis received the Ford Fellowship in 2022.

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3.1 Primary Prevention Interventions To Modify Behaviours Or Promote Wellbeing

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3 Prevention Of Disease And Conditions, And Promotion Of Well-being

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Homeless Management Information System (hmis)

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Homeless Management Information System (hmis)

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3 Prevention Of Disease And Conditions, And Promotion Of Well-being

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3.1 Primary Prevention Interventions To Modify Behaviours Or Promote Wellbeing

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University of Illinois at Chicago - (Chicago, Illinois, United States)

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Moving the Needle: Early Findings on Faculty Approaches to Integrate Culturally Competent Pedagogy into Educational Spaces

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An Asset-Based Perspective of the Economic Contributions of Latinx Communities: An Illinois Case Study

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"Many of Us Have Been Previously Evicted": Exploring the Relationship Between Homelessness and Evictions Among Families Participating in the Rapid Rehousing Program in Salt Lake County, Utah

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People without Homes, Homes without People: Abandoned Properties as Opportunities for Affordable Housing in the Post-Disaster Reconstruction Environment

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Center for Community Progress, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

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LIFE SPACE MOBILITY AND NEIGHBORHOODS: HOW HOME MODIFICATIONS IMPACT AGING IN PLACE

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Building a Self-Determination Gateway: The Story of Paseo Boricua

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Historically Illustrating the Shift to Neoliberalism in the U.S. Home Mortgage Market

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Community Engagement in an Urban Daylighting Project: A Case Study of a Salt Lake City Creek

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In Chicago, A Village Takes Over the Education of the Puerto Rican Community

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Students examined Housing in Primarily Latino Areas during Housing Summit 2018

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Recovery Capacity of Small Nonprofits in Post-2017 Hurricane Puerto Rico

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All Talk No Walk: Student Perceptions on Integration of Diversity and Practice in Planning Programs

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Advocating for Latino equity: Oral histories of Chicago women leaders

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Paseo Boricua . Identity, symbols and ownership

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Public Transit and Gender-Based Harassment: A Photovoice Project

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Healthy Places and the Social Life of Older Adults

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Aida Maisonet Giachello: A career transforming health for Puerto Ricans in Chicago

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Maui wildfires: Extra logistical challenges hinder governments initial response when disasters strike islands

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Nonprofit Response to Concurrent and Consecutive Disaster Events in Puerto Rico

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Concrete and Countryside: The Urban and the Rural in the 1950s Puerto Rican Culture

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Adaptive Leadership and Social Innovation: Overcoming Critical Theory, Positivism, and Postmodernism in Planning Education

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"I Felt Safe": The Role of the Rapid Rehousing Program in Supporting the Security of Families Experiencing Homelessness in Salt Lake County, Utah.

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Why Do Homeless Families Exit and Return the Homeless Shelter? Factors Affecting the Risk of Family Homelessness in Salt Lake County (Utah, United States) as a Case Study.

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Learning about Neighborhood Identity, Streets as Places, and Community Engagement in a Chicago Studio Course

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Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD): core principles

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An Activists Response to School Closing: A Residential Teachers Village in a Gentrifying Puerto Rican Community

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Connectivity and Usership of Two Types of Multi-Modal Transportation Network: A Regional Trail and a Transit-Oriented Commercial Corridor

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Rural communities challenges and ResilientSEE:Case studies from disasters in Florida, Puerto Rico, and North Carolina

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Portland State University, University of Utah

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Neighborhood Environment, Active Commute, and Healthy BMI in Adolescents

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Where Are We Going? Where Have We Been?: The Climate for Diversity within Urban Planning Educational Programs

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Symbolism, Collective Identity, and Community Development

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Feeling Like an "Odd Duck" The Experiences of African American/Black and Hispanic/Latin/o/a/x Planning Practitioners

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Understanding the Impact of Decentralizing Homeless Services on Transportation and Mobility in Salt Lake County

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The Silver Linings of Asset-Based Community Development

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Repurposing a historic school building as a teachers village: exploring the connection between school closures, housing affordability, and community goals in a gentrifying neighborhood

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Natural Hazards Governance Practices and Key Natural Hazards in Latin America and the Caribbean

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The Two-Income Debt Trap: Personal Responsibility and the Financialization of Everyday Life

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The People That Represent the Region and the Year of Change

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Enhancing the Role of Government, Non-Profits, Universities, and Resident Associations as Valuable Community Resources to Advance Equity, Access, Diversity, and Inclusion

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Beyond Recruitment: Comparing Experiences of Climate and Diversity between International Students and Domestic Students of Color in U.S. Urban Planning Programs

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Harassment of low-income women on transit: A photovoice project in Oregon and Utah

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Community participation as a tool for conservation planning and historic preservation: the case of Community As A Campus (CAAC)

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Leadership training as an alternative to neoliberalism: A model for community development

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Diversity climate survey moving from aspiration to action: reorienting planners values towards equity, diversity, and inclusion

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American Planning Association and Association of Collegiate Schools of Planners - Planners of Color Interest Group

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Active Commute to School, Physical Activity and Health of Hispanic High School Students in the United States

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Active Transportation and Perceptions of Safety: A Case Study of a Regional Trail and a Transit Corridor in Salt Lake City, Utah

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Health-related nonprofit response to concurrent disaster events

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Human Ecology and Its Influence in Urban Theory and Housing Policy in the United States

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Cultural Insights for Planners: Understanding the Terms Hispanic, Latino, and Latinx

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Transportation needs and mobility patterns of persons experiencing homelessness following shelter decentralization.

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The Lack of Proof of Ownership in Puerto Rico Is Crippling Repairs in the Aftermath of Hurricane Maria

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Active and Public Transportation Connectivity between North Temple TOD and Jordan Park River Trail

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Socioeconomic and Housing Vulnerabilitys Role in Decision Time for Reconstruction in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Community perspectives on how decentralising an emergency shelter influences transportation needs and use for persons experiencing homelessness.

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Deemed Ineligible: Reasons Homeowners in Puerto Rico Were Denied Aid After Hurricane Maria

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Our interests matter: Puerto Rican older adults in the age of gentrification

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Dream Play Build: Hands-On Community Engagement for Enduring Spaces and Places

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More than 60% of Puerto Ricans seeking FEMA aid after Hurricane Maria had their applications denied  will the agency approve more this time?

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Mexican and Puerto Rican women in Chicago

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Spatial Relationship Between Eviction Filings, Neighborhood Characteristics, and Proximity to the Central Business District: A Case Study of Salt Lake County, Utah

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Visits to social and community establishments and services by persons experiencing homelessness after shelter decentralization

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Four Plans for Shaping the Future of Puerto Rico

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Latino Urban Ethnography and the Work of Elena Padilla

# organizations[]
Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning