Jennifer Wolch
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Jennifer Wolch's Degrees
- PhD Geography University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Geography University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Geography University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jennifer R. Wolch is a professor of Urban Planning, Geography and former dean of the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design. Before accepting the dean position, Wolch was the Founder and Director of the Center for Sustainable Cities at the University of Southern California. She received her Ph.D in Urban Planning from Princeton University, her dissertation focusing on Urban Social Policy and Planning, Human-Animal Relations, Cultural Diversity and Attitudes Toward Animals and Urban Sustainability.
Jennifer Wolch's Published Works
Published Works
- Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice: The challenge of making cities ‘just green enough’ (2014) (2371)
- Parks and Park Funding in Los Angeles: An Equity-Mapping Analysis (2005) (574)
- A systematic review of built environment factors related to physical activity and obesity risk: implications for smart growth urban planning (2011) (453)
- Nature, race, and parks: past research and future directions for geographic research (2009) (445)
- Animal Geographies: Place, Politics, and Identity in the Nature. Culture Borderlands (1998) (365)
- Physical environmental correlates of childhood obesity: a systematic review (2009) (341)
- Landscapes of Despair: From Deinstitutionalization to Homelessness (1987) (335)
- Childhood obesity and proximity to urban parks and recreational resources: a longitudinal cohort study. (2011) (314)
- Got green? addressing environmental justice in park provision (2010) (302)
- The Shadow State: Government and Voluntary Sector in Transition (1990) (281)
- A Spatial Autocorrelation Approach for Examining the Effects of Urban Greenspace on Residential Property Values (2010) (240)
- Traffic-related air pollution and obesity formation in children: a longitudinal, multilevel analysis (2014) (214)
- The active city? Disparities in provision of urban public recreation resources. (2010) (191)
- Planning for environmental justice in an urban national park (2009) (187)
- Social networks in time and space : Homeless women in Skid Row, Los Angeles. (1990) (187)
- Malign Neglect: Homelessness in an American City (1993) (176)
- From distributions of deviance to definitions of difference: past and future mental health geographies. (2000) (150)
- A Longitudinal Cohort Study of Body Mass Index and Childhood Exposure to Secondhand Tobacco Smoke and Air Pollution: The Southern California Children’s Health Study (2014) (143)
- Green Alley Programs: Planning for a sustainable urban infrastructure? (2013) (140)
- The Power of Geography: How Territory Shapes Social Life (1989) (137)
- The Intrametropolitan Geography of Poverty and the Nonprofit Sector in Southern California (2003) (130)
- The Fabric of Space: Water, Modernity and the Urban Imagination (2014) (124)
- Automobile traffic around the home and attained body mass index: a longitudinal cohort study of children aged 10-18 years. (2010) (114)
- Does exposure to air pollution in urban parks have socioeconomic, racial or ethnic gradients? (2011) (110)
- Trail Characteristics as Correlates of Urban Trail Use (2007) (100)
- The Distribution of Urban Voluntary Resources: An Exploratory Analysis (1983) (98)
- Daily and Periodic Mobility Patterns of the Urban Homeless (1993) (97)
- Transspecies Urban Theory (1995) (96)
- Green Urban Worlds (2007) (96)
- Landscapes of Despair; From Deinstitutionalization to Homelessness (1989) (88)
- Nonprofit Contracting and the Hollow State (1994) (85)
- Neighborhood park use by children: use of accelerometry and global positioning systems. (2014) (84)
- Beach Recreation, Cultural Diversity and Attitudes toward Nature (2004) (80)
- Physical and social contextual influences on children's leisure-time physical activity: an ecological momentary assessment study. (2011) (76)
- Factors influencing whether children walk to school. (2013) (74)
- The Power of Geography (1989) (69)
- On the Streets: Mobility Paths of the Urban Homeless (1992) (63)
- Changing Attitudes toward California's Cougars (1997) (62)
- Assessing the Social and Physical Contexts of Children's Leisure-Time Physical Activity: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study (2012) (62)
- RESIDENTIAL LOCATION OF THE SERVICE-DEPENDENT POOR∗ (1980) (62)
- Resident perceptions of urban alleys and alley greening (2010) (56)
- Building the Healthy City: The Role of Nonprofits in Creating Active Urban Parks (2011) (55)
- Decentering America's Nonprofit Sector: Reflections on Salamon's Crises Analysis (1999) (55)
- Parental stress increases body mass index trajectory in pre‐adolescents (2014) (50)
- Fiscal Consequences of Concentrated Poverty in a Metropolitan Region (2005) (48)
- ‘Living Green’: The Promise and Pitfalls of New Sustainable Communities (2011) (45)
- A Model of Homeless Migration: Homeless Men in Skid Row, Los Angeles (1992) (43)
- A Shadow State? Voluntarism in Metropolitan Los Angeles (1986) (42)
- The Forgotten and the Future: Reclaiming Back Alleys for a Sustainable City (2010) (41)
- Children's perceptions of physical activity environments captured through ecological momentary assessment: a validation study. (2012) (39)
- “Le Pratique sauvage: Race, Place, and the Human–Animal Divide” (2008) (39)
- Race, Place, and the Bounds of Humanity1 (1998) (38)
- Proximity and Perceived Safety as Determinants of Urban Trail Use: Findings from a Three-City Study (2010) (37)
- Design and implementation of a web-based platform to support interactive environmental planning (2009) (37)
- Race, Place, and the Human-Animal Divide (1998) (37)
- Investigating the impact of a smart growth community on the contexts of children's physical activity using Ecological Momentary Assessment. (2012) (36)
- Urban Nature and the Nature of Urbanism (2002) (35)
- New spaces for the local welfare state? The case of General Relief in Los Angeles County (2002) (35)
- The Service Hub Concept in Human Services Planning (1996) (34)
- New landscapes of urban poverty management (2001) (33)
- Animal Practices and the Racialization of Filipinas in Los Angeles (2002) (33)
- Up Against The Sprawl: Public Policy And The Making Of Southern California (2004) (32)
- Through the geographical looking glass: Space, place, and society-animal relations (1998) (31)
- Smart growth community design and physical activity in children. (2013) (29)
- Reanimating cultural geography (2002) (29)
- Understanding the physical and social contexts of children's nonschool sedentary behavior: an ecological momentary assessment study. (2014) (28)
- Malign Neglect. Homelessness in an American City (1995) (28)
- Spillover effects of human service facilities in a racially segmented housing market (1984) (27)
- THE NEW POOR LAWS: WELFARE REFORM AND THE LOCALIZATION OF HELP (2001) (25)
- Organized physical activity in young school children and subsequent 4-year change in body mass index. (2012) (25)
- HOMELESSNESS AND ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING (1991) (23)
- RESIDENTIAL LOCATION AND THE PROVISION OF HUMAN SERVICES: SOME DIRECTIONS FOR GEOGRAPHIC RESEARCH* (1979) (23)
- Dismantling the community-based service system. (1985) (21)
- America's New Urban Policy: Welfare Reform and the Fate of American Cities (1998) (21)
- Radical Openness As Method in Urban Geography (2003) (21)
- Community‐based human service delivery (1996) (20)
- Differences in health and welfare between homeless and homed welfare applicants in Los Angeles County. (1994) (20)
- Toward A Sustainable Los Angeles: A "Nature''s Services" Approach (2003) (19)
- The Location of Service-Dependent Households in Urban Areas (1981) (18)
- THE FEDERAL RESPONSE TO HOMELESSNESS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR AMERICAN CITIES (1989) (18)
- Planning responses to voluntary sector crises (1993) (17)
- The ‘three waves’ of research in mental health geography: a review and critical commentary (2001) (17)
- Companions in the Park: Laurel Canyon Dog Park (1992) (17)
- Application of land use regression techniques for urban greening: An analysis of Tianjin, China (2019) (16)
- Urban Restructuring and the Not-For-Profit Sector (1986) (16)
- URBAN HOMELESSNESS: AN AGENDA FOR RESEARCH (1991) (14)
- The Voluntary Sector in Urban Communities (1983) (14)
- Spatial Segregation of the Poor in Southern California: A Multidimensional Analysis (2005) (14)
- Safe Routes to Play? Pedestrian and Bicyclist Crashes Near Parks in Los Angeles. (2016) (14)
- Measuring Concentrated Poverty in a Global Metropolis: Lessons from Los Angeles (2008) (13)
- Reliability of an audit tool for systematic assessment of urban alleyways. (2010) (12)
- Los Angeles in an Era of Welfare Reform: Implications for Poor People and Community Well-being. (1997) (12)
- 7. Access to Parks and Park Facilities in the Green Visions Plan Region (2008) (11)
- Reasons for urban trail use predict levels of trail-related physical activity. (2009) (11)
- “Story-Networks” of Livestock and Climate Change: Actors, Their Artifacts, and the Shaping of Urban Print Media (2014) (11)
- Intrametropolitan planning for community-based residential care: a goals programming approach. (1985) (11)
- Toward zoöpolis? Innovation and contradiction in a conservation community (2009) (10)
- 15. Park Congestion and Strategies to Increase Park Equity (2008) (10)
- Shifting Margins of Housing Status in Los Angeles (1997) (10)
- Development, Reliability, and Validity of an Urban Trail Use Survey (2010) (9)
- Corporate Philanthropy: Implications for Urban Research and Public Policy (1985) (9)
- " A Little Bird Told Me...": Approaching Animals Through Qualitative Methods (2010) (9)
- Social Reproduction in a Post-Fordist Era (1989) (9)
- Local Land-Development Policies and Urban Housing Values (1981) (9)
- Ending Homelessness in Los Angeles (2007) (8)
- DEVELOPMENT AND DECLINE OF SERVICE-DEPENDENT POPULATION GHETTOS (1984) (8)
- The Power of Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography) : How Territory Shapes Social Life (2014) (7)
- Foreword: Beyond the shadow state? (2006) (7)
- Attitudes toward animals among African American women in Los Angeles 1 (2004) (6)
- Indicators in Action: The Use of Sustainability Indicators in the City of Santa Monica (2006) (6)
- Siren Songs: Gendered Discourses of Concern for Sea Creatures (2007) (6)
- SAGE (Systematic Audit Of Green-Space Environments) (2005) (5)
- Food Access Around the Home and Growth in the Body Mass Index of Children Aged 10–18 Years: A Longitudinal Cohort Study (2009) (4)
- Local Land-Use Regulation and Proposition 13: Some Findings from a Recent Survey (1980) (4)
- Urban habitats/nature (2009) (4)
- Understanding Homelessness: From Global to Local (2008) (4)
- Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women. Elliot Liebow; The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream. Peter Calthorpe, with Shelly Potichka, and Real Places: An Unconventional Guide to America's Generic Landscape. Grady Clay (1995) (2)
- Local Land-Use Regulation and Urban Housing Values (1980) (2)
- Urban Humanities and the Creative Practitioner: A manifesto (2016) (2)
- Wolpert, J. 1970: Departures from the usual environment in locational analysis. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 50, 220—29 (2009) (2)
- Sociocultural aspects of attitudes toward marine animals: a focus group analysis (2002) (2)
- Los Angeles: Region by Design (2005) (1)
- The Changing Face of Concentrated Poverty (2005) (1)
- The Association of Trail Features With Self-Report Trail Use by Neighborhood Residents. (2020) (1)
- Childhood Exposure to Secondhand Tobacco Smoke and Air Pollution: The Southern California Children's Health Study (2014) (1)
- Obesogenic Effects of Exposure to Tobacco Smoke and Air Pollution in Children (2013) (1)
- Urban Theory and Public Health (2011) (1)
- Recreationist-Wildlife Interactions in Urban Parks (2006) (1)
- Landscapes of Despair: The Homelessness Crisis in US Cities (1987) (1)
- Safe Routes to Play? Pedestrian and Bicyclist Crashes Near Parks in the Los Angeles Region (2012) (1)
- “From Global to Local: The Rise of Homelessness in Los Angeles during the 1980s” from Allen J. Scott and Edward W. Soja (eds) The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century (1996) (2020) (1)
- Inside/Outside: The Dialectics of Homelessness (2019) (0)
- Erratum to “The active city?: Disparities in the provision of urban public recreation resources” [Health Place 16 (3) (2010) 431–445] (2012) (0)
- H ow territory shapes social life : MICHAEL DEAR and JENNIFER WOLCH Society and space: an introduction (2014) (0)
- List of Maps and Figures (1992) (0)
- HOMELESSNESS IN AMERICA (1990) (0)
- PART II: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SERVICE DEPENDENT GHETTO (1992) (0)
- PART III: PUBLIC POLICY FOR THE CITY (1992) (0)
- State, Subject, Space (2003) (0)
- NOT-FOR-PROFIT SECTOR* (2016) (0)
- The World of Homelessness According to Jencks (2016) (0)
- Book Reviews : ■ The Homeless in Contemporary Society Richard D. Bingham, Roy E. Green, and Sammis B. White, editors Sage Publications, Beverly Hills, California, 1986. 276 pp. 8½" x 5". $29.95 (cloth), $14.95 (paperback (1988) (0)
- RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE TRAVEL IN PARK-ADJACENT NEIGHBORHOODS IN LOS ANGELES, USA (2011) (0)
- The World of Homelessness according to Jencks@@@The Homeless (1996) (0)
- Factors predicting the capacity of Los Angeles city-region recreation programs to promote energy expenditure. (2014) (0)
- Residential Location of the Service-Dependent Poor - eScholarship (1980) (0)
- Commentary (1992) (0)
- Research on Urban Trail Environments Trail Use Questionnaire (2018) (0)
- KR08 Achieving Sustainable Development in Southern California: Collaborative Learning through System Dynamics Modeling (2008) (0)
- The Global Urban Humanities Initiative:Engaging the humanities and environmental design in pedagogical innovation (2013) (0)
- Index of works cited (1992) (0)
- “Downtown Is Not the Heart of the City”: (2019) (0)
- When Suburbs Collide (2006) (0)
- Giving and Receiving: Foundations and Voluntary Organizations in Los Angeles (2016) (0)
- Book reviews (1986) (0)
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