Urbanization and Mobility
Cities reflect the complex mingling of economic and political and environmental processes, cultural meanings, and people. They are engines of continual transformation and nodes of tremendous flows of migrants, capital, and ideas. Urban research at Miami explores the diverse processes and meanings bound up in urban landscapes, ranging from the political-economic analysis of force shaping contemporary urbanization, to critical studies of the cultural issues related to citizenship, identify, and marginality in urban space.
Among our particular areas of expertise are:
Power and Place
Public space (D'Arcus, England), idealogical landscapes (Prytherch), geographies of marginalized peoples (England)
Mobility and Urban Change
Core-periphery migration and diasporian space (Yeboah)
Forced migration and resettlement (Dahlman)
Urban Planning
Principles and practice (Rubenstein), politics of planning (Prytherch), sprawl (Klak, Prytherch, Yeboah)
Economic Restructuring
Auto industry (Rubenstein), structural adjustment (Yeboah)
recent thesis
Samuel Yeboah (2007) "Socialization and Identity of Ghanaian Second Generation Immigrants in Greater Cincinnati" (Ian Yeboah, advisor)
Jean-Paul Addie (2006) "Geographies of Neoliberal Regulation and the Everyday Urban Experience: A Case Study of Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati" (Patricia Ehrkamp, advisor)
Kizito Afeku (2005) "Urbanization and Flooding in Accra, Ghana" (Ian Yeboah, advisor)
Benjamin Amankwah (2004) "Small Businesses of Immigrants: The Ghanaian Experience in Columbus, Ohio" (Ian Yeboah, advisor)
Kweku Ocran (2005) "An Examination of Ghanaian Immigrant Institutions in Greater Cincinnati Area of the South West Ohio, USA" (Ian Yeboah, advisor)