https://www.lydiawileden.com/wiledencv daily 0.75 2025-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e98825b5ad66857b93b0341/1614698705683-LQ3PTS9AZ3AE8NFYM2AA/LW_Headshot_BW.jpg CV https://www.lydiawileden.com/contact daily 0.75 2024-08-21 https://www.lydiawileden.com/projects daily 1.0 2024-08-21 https://www.lydiawileden.com/projects/dmacs monthly 0.5 2020-12-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e98825b5ad66857b93b0341/1607550066885-5T333R67RA8XHRVMY1WE/image-asset.jpeg Projects - Detroit Metro Area Communities Study - Detroit Metro Area Communities Study The Detroit Metro Area Communities Study (DMACS) is a University of Michigan initiative designed to regularly survey a broad, representative group of Detroit residents about their communities, including their expectations, perceptions, priorities, and aspirations. Since 2016, the University of Michigan’s Detroit Metro Area Communities Study has used a city-wide survey to help bridge the gap between Detroit officials and residents whose voices may not always be heard in public discussions. Starting in March 2020, DMACS developed and launched a series of rapid-response surveys to capture the impacts of COVID on Detroiters. Completed by a representative sample of more than 2,200 Detroiters, the ongoing DMACS survey provides valuable insights into the perceptions and attitudes of people who live and work in Detroit. DMACS is led by Professor Elisabeth Gerber, Professor Jeffrey Morenoff, and Professor Mara Ostfeld. https://www.lydiawileden.com/projects/covid-placemaking monthly 0.5 2023-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e98825b5ad66857b93b0341/1603305184221-SAEATSXUVKPZT9WT4ICZ/caleb-wright-Ipbd1VIBjYI-unsplash.jpg Projects - COVID-19 and Shifting Uses of Public Space - Shifting Uses and Perceptions of Public Space: Placemaking During COVID-19 This study seeks to understand how municipalities across Michigan responded to the coronavirus pandemic. At a time when many communities faced the competing necessities to maintain social distance and support local businesses, the purpose of this study is to ask local leaders and stakeholders to share their thinking and experiences around reimagining and reutilizing public space in response to COVID-19. Over the last decade, cities and towns across Michigan have been creatively re-imagining public spaces through the process of placemaking–an increasingly common community development strategy used to stave off blight, reenergize neighborhoods, and change how people think about and use the spaces around them. In light of the pandemic, many of these efforts to redefine communal space accelerated. From the creation of “healthy streets” to the proliferation of social districts to the growth of outdoor dining, communities used regulatory tools and innovative approaches to urban planning to adapt their built environments. In the process, these places laid the groundwork for and fast-tracked potentially permanent changes to public space. Data from this project offers insights and best practices into these space transformations and captures a unique snapshot of creative placemaking strategies utilized to meet the moment of requisite and dramatic rethinking of public life. This project is a collaboration between Lydia Wileden and the Michigan Municipal League. It was supported with a grant from the Rackham Program in Public Scholarship. https://www.lydiawileden.com/projects/chicago-neighborhood-survey monthly 0.5 2023-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e98825b5ad66857b93b0341/1694721105366-V7TPHSVFJ7TQPA1ZV6DS/image-asset.jpeg Projects - The Chicago Neighborhood Project - The Chicago Neighborhood Project Chicago prides itself as “The City of Neighborhoods” but where are they? Other than the 77 “Community Areas” mapped out in the 1920s, no official neighborhood boundaries exist. Chicago needs an update! This project asks current Chicago residents to identify Chicago's neighborhoods using an interactive map to draw neighborhood boundaries. The project’s goals are twofold. First, we want to understand how residents’ views of their neighborhoods differ from administrative boundaries. Second, we hope to document the heterogenous views of neighborhoods held by geographically proximate neighbors. This work contributes to the scholarly debate about how places are represented in the minds of individuals, how these representations are best measured, and what is obscured by an over-reliance on long-ago-defined administrative boundaries. Take the survey here: Chicago Neighborhood Survey Preliminary findings Learning from the Chicago Neighborhood Project (Mansueto Institute Colloquium Series) Press coverage What Are Your Neighborhood’s Borders? Study Asks Chicagoans To Weigh In (Block Club Chicago) You can help update Chicago's decades-old community map (Crain’s Chicago) A New Survey Asks Chicagoans: What’s Your Neighborhood? (Chicago Magazine) How You Can Help Redefine Chicago’s Community Boundaries (Chicago Tonight: Black Voices, WTTW) Interview: Who Defines the City of Neighborhoods (Starting at 7:26)(On The Block, WCIU CW26) If you have questions about this research study, you can contact the research team at urbanism@uchicago.edu. This project is a collaboration between Professor Emily Talen, Professor Crystal Bae, and Lydia Wileden. It is supported by an Urban Innovations Grant from the Mansueto Institute. https://www.lydiawileden.com/projects/reputations monthly 0.5 2021-06-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e98825b5ad66857b93b0341/1587072679531-AS84DIQC59X1WT7TSB0S/Picture1.png https://www.lydiawileden.com/projects/dissertation monthly 0.5 2022-09-08