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FLOODS:  Collaborative Community Design Initiative No. 5
2020

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ISLANDS:  Collaborative Community Design Initiative No. 2
2012

CORRIDORS:  Collaborative Community Design Initiative No. 1
2010

HOUSTON HOPE:  Strategies for Change
2006

CDRC Collaborative Publications
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Northside:  Quality of Life Agreement
          Avenue Community Development Corporation
                    Mary Lawler, Executive Director
                    Lizbeth Mejia, Assistant Director
                    Jenifer Wagley, GO Neighborhood Community
                    Coordinator
          LISC Greater Houston
                    Amanda Timm, Executive Director
                    Paul Wright, Senior Program Officer
          Planning and Consultant Team
                    Dig-In
                    Odin Zackman
                    Mara Guccione
                    The Working Partner
                    Jessica Pugil
          Community Design Resource Center
                    Susan Rogers, Director
                    Maria Oran, Publication Assistant

 

Independence Heights: Quality of Life Agreement
          Independence Heights Redevelopment Council
                    Tanya Debose
          LISC Greater Houston
                    Amanda Timm, Executive Director
                    Paul Wright, Senior Program Officer
          Planning and Consultant Team
                    Dig-In
                    Odin Zackman
                    Mara Guccione
          Strategic Decision Associates
                    Jeff Stys
          Community Design Resource Center
                    Susan Rogers, Director
                    Maria Oran, Publication Assistant

HEARTS:  Collaborative Community Design Initiative No. 3
2014

ZONES:  Collaborative Community Design Initiative No. 4
2016

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Northside:  Quality of Life Agreement 2.0
          Avenue Community Development Corporation
                    Mary Lawler, Executive Director
                    Jenifer Wagley, Deputy Director
                    Rob Block, GO Neighborhood Community
                    Coordinator
          LISC Greater Houston
                    Amanda Timm, Executive Director
          Planning and Consultant Team

          Publication Design

          Community Design Resource Center
                    Susan Rogers, Director
                    Shreya Patel, Publication Assistant

 

OST | South Union: Quality of Life Agreement
          Independence Heights Redevelopment Council
                    Tanya Debose
          LISC Greater Houston
                    Amanda Timm, Executive Director

                    Katherine Atkiss, Program Officer
          Planning and Consultant Team
          Community Design Resource Center
                    Susan Rogers, Director

Our | Nuestro Northline : Health Equity Plan

          Avenue Community Development Corporation                   

                    Mary Lawler, Executive Director                   

                    Jenifer Wagley, Deputy Director                   

                    Maria Aguirre-Borrero, Community Building

                    and Engagement Manager

          Planning and Consultant Team       

          Community Design Resource Center                    

                    Susan Rogers, Director
                    Adelle Main, Senior Associate

                    Project Team: Barbara Blanco, Angelica Lastra,

                    Tran Le, Mario Lopez, Pooja Shetty

Affordable Multi-Family Housing: Risks and Opportunities

           Consortium Reports & Studies

        Greater Houston Flood Mitigation Consortium

               Community Design Resource Center, University of Houston

                    Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Rice University

                    Local Initiatives Support Corporation Houston                  

          Community Design Resource Center Team                   

                    Susan Rogers, Director
                    Adelle Main, Senior Associate

                    Project Team: Angelica Lastra, Mario Lopez,

                    Gabriela Degetau, Constanza Pena,

                    Katherine Polkinghorne

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Greens Bayou Watershed Analysis and Resiliency Planning

East Aldine | East Houston | Eastex Jensen | Greenspoint

          Greater Houston Flood Mitigation Consortium

               Community Design Resource Center, University of Houston

                    Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Rice University

                    Local Initiatives Support Corporation Houston                  

          Community Design Resource Center Team                   

                    Susan Rogers, Director
                    Adelle Main, Senior Associate

                    Project Team: Angelica Lastra, Mario Lopez,

                    Gabriela Degetau, Constanza Pena,

                    Katherine Polkinghorne

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Urban Edge Blog, Kinder Institute for Urban Research

February 2021

Mapping Inequity in Houston's COVID-19 Vaccination Rollout

By Susan Rogers and Katherine Polkinghorne

Urban Edge Blog, Kinder Institute for Urban Research

November 2019

Greens Bayou Watershed analysis reveals strategies to increase resiliency 

from flooding

By Susan Rogers and Katherine Polkinghorne

 

Columns Magazine, AIA Dallas

Winter 2020

The Little Home in Back

By Susan Rogers and Constanza Peña Nakouzi

Int | AR, Volume 5

2014

Resilience and Adaptability

The New Projects : Suburban Multi-Family Housing in an Era of Change

By Susan Rogers

 

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Spring 2014

The Beautiful Periphery

An Interview with Albert Pope

The [Beautiful] Projects: Contradiction and Complexity

By Susan Rogers

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Spring 2013

Reconnecting by Way of What Divides Us: Ditches reimagined in Thick Infrastructure.

By Susan Rogers

Urban Infill, Volume 5

Diagrammatically

October 2012

Strategrams

By Susan Rogers

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Summer 2011
Street of Dreams: Is a Bigger Airline a Better Airline?
By Susan Rogers

 

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Spring 2011
Food for Thought: Mapping Houston Neighborhoods Reveals a Great Divide
By Susan Rogers and Maria Oran

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Spring 2010
Anatomy of Emptiness: Understanding the Overlooked Spaces
By Susan Rogers  

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Winter 2009
A New Center on the Periphery: The Baker-Ripley Neighborhood Center for Gulfton, Sharpstown
By Susan Rogers

 

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Winter 2008
Building the American Dream: the politics of housing
By Susan Rogers

Essays in Books:

Expanding Architecture:  Design as Activism

Metropolis Press, 2008

Introduction

By Jose L.S. Gamez and Susan Rogers

 

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Winter 2007
The Rurban Horseshoe: Historic Black Neighborhoods on the Periphery
By Rafael Longoria and Susan Rogers

 

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Fall 2007
Instant Urbanism: Mixed-use Lifestyle Centers, Coming to an Intersection Near You
By Susan Rogers

 

 

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Summer 2006
Politics and Design
“Mayor League” explores the forces shaping urban America.
By Susan Rogers

 

 

Places Journal
Places 17 (2)
2005
Superneighborhood 27:  A Brief History of Change
By Susan Rogers

 

 

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Fall 2001
Cite Reading: Magical Urbanism | Suburban Nation | New and Notable
Reviews by Bruce C. Webb, Susan Rogers, and Michael Kimmins

 

Urban Design International
Exodus within an expanding city: The case of Houston’s
historic African-American communities
Forthcoming
By Susan Rogers and Rafael Longoria

antiATLAS Journal

Remapping the Neighborhood

By Karen O'Rourke

Lectures
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One Houston Together: Developing Equitable Communities
Greater Houston Partnership 

Duwain Pinder, Associate Partner, McKinsey and Company; 

Kyle Shelton, Deputy Director, Kinder Institute for Urban Research; 

Robert Bullard, Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy, Texas Southern University; and 

Susan Rogers, Director, Community Design Resource Center at the University of Houston College of Architecture and Design

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