Biography

Prof. Robert Mark Silverman

Urban and Regional Planning

University at Buffalo, USA

Professor


Email: rms35@buffalo.edu


Qualifications

1997 Ph.D., Urban Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

1991 M.P.A., Public Administration, Arizona State University, USA

1989 B.S., Political Science, Arizona State University, USA


Publications (selected)

  1. Silverman, R.M. and Patterson, K.L. (2015). Qualitative research methods for community development. New York: Routledge.
  2. Silverman, R.M., Patterson, K.L. and Yin, L. (2015). Municipal property acquisition patterns in a shrinking city: Evidence for the persistence of an urban growth paradigm in Buffalo, NY. Cogent Social Sciences, 1: 1012973.
  3. Silverman, R.M. (2014). Urban, suburban and rural contexts of school districts and Neighborhood revitalization strategies: Rediscovering equity in education policy and urban planning. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 13(1): 3-27.
  4. Silverman, R.M., Lewis, J. and Patterson, K.L. (2014). William Worthy’s concept of ‘institutional rape’ revisited: Anchor institutions and residential displacement in Buffalo, NY. Humanity & Society, 38(2): 158-181.
  5. Silverman, R.M., Patterson, K.L. and Lewis, J. (2013). Chasing a paper tiger: Evaluating Buffalo’s analysis of impediments to fair housing choice. Current Urban Studies, 1(3): 28-35.
  6. Patterson, Kelly L. and Robert Mark Silverman, eds. (2013) Schools and Urban Revitalization: Rethinking Institutions and Community Development.New York: Routledge.
  7. Silverman, Robert Mark. 2013. “Making Waves or Treading Water?: An Analysis of Charter Schools in New York State.”Urban Education, 48(2): 257-288.
  8. Silverman, Robert Mark, Li Yin and Kelly L. Patterson. 2012. “Dawn of the Dead City: An Exploratory Analysis of Vacant Addresses in Buffalo, NY 2008-2010.”Journal of Urban Affairs, Early View.
  9. Silverman, Robert Mark. 2012. “The Nonprofitization of Public Education: Implications of Requiring Charter Schools to be Nonprofits in New York.”Nonprofit Policy Forum3(1).
  10. Silverman, Robert Mark and Patterson, Kelly L. 2012. “The Four Horsemen of the Fair Housing Apocalypse: A Critique of Fair Housing Policy in the USA.”Critical Sociology38(1): 123-140.
  11. Silverman, Robert Mark and Kelly L. Patterson, eds. 2011.Fair and Affordable Housing in the US: Trends, Outcomes, Future Directions (hardcover). Boston: Brill.
  12. Silverman, Robert Mark and Patterson, Kelly L. 2011. “A Case for Expanding Nonprofit Activities in Affordable Housing: An Analysis of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Outcomes 1987-2006,”Journal of Public Management and Social Policy17(1): 33-48.
  13. Silverman, Robert Mark and Kelly L. Patterson. 2011.“The Effects of Perceived Funding Trends on Nonprofit Advocacy: A National Survey of Nonprofit Advocacy Organizations in the United States,”International Journal of Public Sector Management24(5): 435-451.
  14. Silverman, Robert Mark. 2011. “Black Real Estate Professionals ‘Perceptions of Career Opportunities: The Economic Detour Redux,”Review of Black Political Economy38(2): 145-163.
  15. Patterson, Kelly L. and Robert Mark Silverman. 2011.“How Local Public Administrators, Nonprofit Providers and Elected Officials Perceive Impediments to Fair Housing in the Suburbs: An Analysis of Erie County, New York,”Housing Policy Debate21(1): 165-188.
  16. Silverman, Robert Mark. 2011. “How Unwavering is Support for the Local Property Tax?: Voting on School District Budgets in New York, 2003-2010.”Journal of Education Finance36(3): 294-311.
  17. Silverman, Robert Mark. 2009. “Nonprofit Perceptions of Local Government Performance in Affordable Housing,”International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis2(3): 253-262.
  18. Silverman, Robert Mark. 2009. “Perceptions of Nonprofit Funding Decisions: A Survey of LocalPublic Administrators and Executive Directors ofCommunity-Based Housing Organizations (CBHOs),”Public Organization Review9(3): 235-246.
  19. Silverman, Robert Mark. 2009. “Sandwiched Between Patronage and Bureaucracy: The Plight of Citizen Participation in Community-Based Housing Organizations (CBHOs),”Urban Studies46(1): 3-25
  20. Silverman, Robert Mark. 2008. “CBOs and Affordable Housing,”National Civic Review97(3): 26-31.
  21. Silverman, Robert Mark. 2008. “The Influence of Nonprofit Networks on Local Affordable Housing Funding: Findings from a National Survey of Local Public Administrators.”Urban Affairs Review44(1): 126-141.
  22. Silverman, Robert Mark. 2008. “Mortgage Lending Disparities in Metropolitan Buffalo: Implications for Community Reinvestment Policy,”Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy38(1): 36-44.
  23. Silverman, Robert Mark, Henry L. Taylor, Jr. and Christopher G. Crawford. 2008. “The Role of Citizen Participation and Action Research Principles in Main Street Revitalization: An Analysis of a Local Planning Project,”Action Research6(1): 69-93.
  24. Kelly L. Patterson and Robert Mark Silverman. 2007. “Building a Better Neighborhood Housing Partnership.”Housing and Society34(2): 187-211.
  25. Silverman, Robert Mark. 2006. “Central City Socio-Economic Characteristics and Public Participation Strategies: A Comparative Analysis of the Niagara Region’s Municipalities in the U.S. and Canada,”International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy28(3/4): 138-153.
  26. Silverman, Robert Mark. 2005. “Caught in the Middle: Community Development Corporations (CDCs) and the Conflict between Grassroots and Instrumental forms of Citizen Participation,”Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society36(2): 35-51.
  27. Silverman, Robert Mark. 2005. “Community Socioeconomic Status and Disparities in Mortgage Lending: An Analysis of Metropolitan Detroit,”The Social Science Journal42(3): 479-486.
  28. Silverman, Robert Mark. 2005. “Redlining in a Majority Black City?: Mortgage Lending and the Racial Composition of Detroit Neighborhoods,”The Western Journal of Black Studies29(1): 531-541.
  29. Silverman Robert Mark, ed. 2004.Community-Based Organizations: The Intersection of Social Capital and Local Contextin Contemporary Urban Society. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.
  30. Silverman, Robert Mark. 2003. “Progressive Reform, Gender, and Institutional Structure: A Critical Analysis of Citizen Participation in Detroit’s Community Development Corporations (CDCs),”Urban Studies40(13): 2731-2750.
  31. Silverman, Robert Mark. 2003. “Citizens’ District Councils in Detroit: The Promise and Limits of Using Planning Advisory Boards to Promote Citizen Participation,”National Civic Review92(4): 3-13.
  32. Silverman, Robert Mark. 2002. “Vying for the Urban Poor: Charitable Organizations, Faith-Based Social Capital, and Racial Reconciliation in a Deep South City,”Sociological Inquiry72(1): 151-165.
  33. Silverman, Robert Mark. 2001. “Neighborhood Characteristics, CDC Emergence and the Community Development Industry System: A Case Study of the American Deep South,”Community Development Journal36(3): 234-245.
  34. Silverman, Robert Mark. 2001. “CDCs and Charitable Organizations in the Urban South: Mobilizing Social Capital Based on Race and Religion for Neighborhood Revitalization,”Journal of Contemporary Ethnography30(2): 240-268.
  35. Silverman, Robert Mark. 1999. “Ethnic Solidarity and Black Business: The Case of Ethnic Beauty Aids Distributors in Chicago,”American Journal of Economics and Sociology58(4): 829-841.
  36. Silverman, Robert Mark. 1999. “Black Business, Group Resources, and the Economic Detour: Contemporary Black Manufacturers in Chicago’s Ethnic Beauty Aids Industry,”Journal of Black Studies30(2): 232-258.
  37. Silverman, Robert Mark. 1998. “Middleman Minorities and Sojourning in Black America: The Case of Korean Entrepreneurs on the South Side of Chicago,”Sociological Imagination35(2/3): 159-181.
  38. Silverman, Robert Mark. 1998. “Race, Consumer Characteristics, and Hiring Preferences: The South Side of Chicago.”Research in Community Sociology8: 159-179.
  39. Silverman, Robert Mark. 1998. “The Effects of Racism and Racial Discrimination on Minority Business Development: The Case of Black Manufacturers in Chicago’s Ethnic Beauty Aids Industry,”Journal of Social History31(3): 571-597.


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Last updated: 2015-06-30

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