Laboratories & Projects

Gender and Race Intersections in Planning Lab (GRIP Lab)

The GRIP-Lab is devoted to understanding the causes, consequences, and intersections of race and gender inequality in planning education, practice, and research. The primary objective of the GRIP-Lab is to ask relevant, targeted questions about gender and race inequality in planning, and use every tool available (empirical, experimental, theoretical), and action research to answer these questions. The broader objective of the lab is to use multi-method approaches to improve education, public decision-making, and policy around issues related to the intersections of race and gender inequality in US, transnational, and International planning

Land Use Evolution & Impact Assessment Model (LEAM)

LEAM is a process of modeling, visualization, and testing the impacts of land-use policy decisions. Through dynamic spatial modeling and Web-based interface, LEAM simulates land-use change across space and time, providing a basis for discussion and decision-making in planning.

Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL)

REAL provides timely, high quality analytical economic information for a variety of uses such as public policy decision making by public sector agencies and for strategic marketing in the private sector. REAL's capabilities revolve around comprehensive state and metropolitan models that integrate econometric and input-output analysis to provide for both impact and forecasting analyses

Regional Economics and Public Policy Research Group (REAP)

The forces influencing regional prosperity are still poorly understood, and the effects of many public policies on regional economies remain unclear. The REAP Research Group addresses those gaps through a strategic program of research on regional development, policy evaluation methods, enriched data systems, institutional practices, and policy implementation.

Spatial Policy Analysis Research Consortium (SPARC)

The Spatial Policy Analysis Research Consortium is a voluntary association of faculty members and their students who share interests in quantitative social science research on public policy issues with important spatial, regional, state, and local dimensions. Faculty in the group regularly share the results of their work-in-progress through the SPARC Seminar Series. Financial and other support for SPARC is provided by the ACES Office of Research and the Institute for Government and Public Affairs.