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Urban and Regional Studies (URS) is a specialty in which Ohio State has excelled for many years. It is a long-standing and major topic in the discipline of Geography, is the focus of active research work by both faculty and graduate students and has been a major theme in faculty appointments and research funding since the 1960s. Topics in Urban and Regional Studies include the dynamics of regional change, urban growth and decline, land use within metropolitan areas and population movements. Current departmental research includes frontier settlement in Ecuador, hub designs for transportation networks, industrial organization effects on regional economies, place-of-residence effects on employment, macrolevel models of urban and regional systems, and socio-economic change and migration in the Ohio River Valley. These aspects of Urban and Regional Studies ultimately coalesce into a broad knowledge base.
The Unity and Diversity of Urban/Regional Studies. Clockwise from Top Left: Shepherding on the Navajo Reservation, Ganado, AZ (USDA: Ken Hammond); Historic Business in Olde Towne Columbus (Olde Towne East Neighborhood Association); loaded ship at dock (USDA); farmstead in Chippahua Falls, WI (USDA: Ron Nichols).

The following faculty members are associated with the Urban and Regional Studies area:

Regular Faculty:

Cieri, Marie (urban and social geography, critical cartography)

Coleman, Mathew (political geography)

Cox, Kevin (urban, social theory)

Ettlinger, Nancy (urban, development, social-population, location)

Kwan, Mei-Po (urban, transport, information technology, gender and ethnicity)

Malecki, Ed (economic development, technological change, regional policy, research and development, telecommunications, corporate location and behavior)

Mansfield, Becky (nature-society relations, political and cultural economy of globalization)

Medvedkov, Yuri (urban, social-population)

Munroe, Darla (economic, land use change)

Murray, Alan (urban, transportation, locational analysis)

O'Kelly, Morton (urban, location, transport)

Thomas, Mary (gender, urban)

Xiao, Ningchuan (environmental analysis)

Adjunct & Affiliate Faculty:

Jacobs, Neil (Germanic Languages and Literatures, OSU; Jewish geography)

Klak, Tom (Geography, Miami University; development, urban)

Kraybill, Dave (Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, OSU; regional economics, regional development)

McCann, Eugene (urban, planning, race and ethnicity, social theory)

Morrow-Jones, Hazel (City & Regional Planning, OSU; urban, development, social-population)

White, Dale (Division of Surface Water, Ohio EPA; watershed assessment, human-environment interactions)