Russell Weaver

Publications

Policy Report

• Zoe West, Russell Weaver, & KC Wagner. (2022). Unvarnished: Precarity and Poor Working Conditions for Nail Salon Workers in New York.
• Russell Weaver, & Jason Knight. (2021). Engaging the Future of Housing in the Buffalo-Niagara Region: A Preliminary Exploration of Challenges that Lie Ahead.
• Russell Weaver, & Jason Knight. (2020). Advancing Housing Security: An Analysis of Renting, Rent Burden, and Tenant Exploitation in Erie County, NY.
• Russell Weaver. (2020). Building “Next Generation” Democratic Workplaces to Reduce Inequality and Empower Workers: Evidence and Policy Implications from Buffalo-Niagara.

Journal Articles

• Russell Weaver. (2021). Back to the Future of Local Elections: Reestablishing Resident Voting Rights to Strengthen Municipal Democracy  . High Road Policy, 2(4).
• Russell Weaver. (2021). The Raise the Wage Act Could Lower Housing Cost Burden and Advance Racial Equity. High Road Policy, 2(1).
• Russell Weaver. (2020). Chartering an Inclusive, Sustainable, Democratic City  . High Road Policy, 1(4).
• Russell Weaver. (2020). Defining and Advancing High Road Policy Concepts, Strategies, and Tactics. High Road Policy, 1(2SE).
• Russell Weaver. (2020). Economic Development on Common Ground: Two Bipartisan State Policies for Defunding Low Road Infrastructure. High Road Policy, 1(2).
• Russell Weaver. (2020). Prioritizing Racial Equity and Social Justice in New York State. High Road Policy, 1(3).
• Jason Knight, & Russell Weaver. (2020). Strategic demolition for shrinking and shrunken cities: A case study from Buffalo, NY, USA. Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal, 13, Forthcoming.
• Russell Weaver, & Jason Knight. (2018). Analysis of a multipronged community development initiative in two distressed neighbourhoods. Community Development Journal, 53(2), 301-320.
• Russell Weaver, & Jason Knight. (2018). Can shrinking cities demolish vacancy? An empirical evaluation of a demolition-first approach to vacancy management in Buffalo, NY, USA. Urban Science, 2(3), 1-24.
• Jason Knight, Russell Weaver, & Paula Jones. (2018). Walkable and resurgent for whom? The uneven geographies of walkability in Buffalo, New York. Applied Geography, 90(1), 175-186.
• Russell Weaver. (2018). Exploring the elements of social capital: leverage points and creative measurement strategies for community building. National Civic Review, 107(1), 16-30.
• Russell Weaver. (2016). Capacity-building and community resilience: a pilot analysis of education and employment indicators before and after an Extension intervention. Journal of Extension, 54(2), 2FEA1.
• Russell Weaver, & Chris Holtkamp. (2016). Determinants of Appalachian identity: using vernacular traces to study cultural geographies of an American region. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 106(1), 203-221.
• Russell Weaver. (2016). Palliative planning in an American shrinking city - some thoughts and preliminary policy analysis. Community Development, 48(3), 436-450.
• Russell Weaver. (2015). Critical sustainabilities: Negotiating sustainability’s discursive maze in the classroom. The Journal of Geography, 114(6), 223-234.
• Russell Weaver, & Chris Holtkamp. (2015). Geographical theories of neighborhood change: from evolutionary theory to political economy…and back? . Geography Compass, 9, 286-302.
• Russell Weaver. (2015). The partisan geographies of sincere crossover voting behavior: evidence from North Carolina. The Professional Geographer, 67(2), 145-153.
• Russell Weaver. (2014). Evolutionary analysis of neighborhood decline using multilevel selection theory. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 104(4), 765-783.
• Russell Weaver. (2013). Re-framing the urban blight problem with trans-disciplinary insights from ecological economics. Ecological Economics, 90, 168-176.

Research Reports

• Russell Weaver. (2020). Erasing Red Lines: Epilogue-Where Do We Go From Here?.
• Russell Weaver. (2019). Buffalo Niagara's Union Members: Good Neighbors and Active Citizens.
• Russell Weaver. (2019). Erasing Red Lines: Part 1 - Geographies of Discrimination .
• Russell Weaver. (2019). Erasing Red Lines: Part 2-Systems Thinking for Social and Community Change.
• Russell Weaver. (2019). Erasing Red Lines: Part 3 – Building community wealth.

Book Chapters

• Russell Weaver. (2017). Growth, development, and housing stock quality in the administrative Appalachian region. Routledge.
• Russell Weaver, & Joshua Dyck. (2013). New York redistricting in action: legislative inaction and judicial enaction. (pp. 395-422). Lexington Books.

Books

• Russell Weaver, Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen, Jason Knight, & Amy Frazier. (2016). Shrinking cities: understanding urban decline in the United States, 1st edition. Routledge.