Research/Dissertation
Joe’s doctoral research investigates land use change in New York’s suburbs. His research looks at instances where increasing suburban ethnic diversity disrupts land use paradigms — particularly formal and informal densification in “ethnoburbs.” He is interested in how non-normative suburban groups navigate the land use system, how municipal governments mediate divergent attitudes about density, and what these cases reveal about the making and unmaking of exclusionary zoning in the suburbs.
