Margaret Cowell

Associate Professor, Urban Affairs and Planning (UAP)

900 N Glebe Rd.
Arlington, VA 22203

mmcowell@vt.edu

Book

Dealing with Deindustrialization: Adaptive Resilience in American Midwestern Regions (Routledge, 2014)

Articles

“The Rural Identity and the Encroaching City: Governance and Development in Northern Virginia’s Wine Country (with A. Eckerd and H. Smart), Growth and Change: A Journal of Urban and Regional Policy (forthcoming).
“Barriers and Drivers to Accessing and Using Workforce and Technical Assistance Resources for Small and Medium Manufacturers (SMMs) in Non-urban Regions,” (with S. Tate, S. Lyon-Hill, and A. Alwang), Economic Development Quarterly (2019).
“It takes all kinds: Understanding diverse entrepreneurial ecosystems,” (with S. Lyon-Hill and S. Tate), Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy (2018).
“Homogenized diversity: Economic visions in the Great Recession,” (with J. Gainsborough and K. Lowe) Journal of Urban Affairs (2015).
“Bounce Back or Move On: Regional Resilience and Economic Development Planning.” Cities. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2012.04.001

NRT: Disaster Resilience and Risk Management (DRRM) - Creating quantitative decision making frameworks for multi-dimensional and multi-scale analysis of hazard impact
PI: Robert Weiss Co-PIs: Margaret Cowell, Jennifer Irish, Marie Paretti, Yang Zhang, Christopher Zobel
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $3M
VT Collaboratory in the National Capital Region (‘Collaboratory’) – A Social Science and Design Research and Engagement Agenda for HQ2 and VT’s Innovation Campus
PI: Margaret Cowell and Elizabeth Morton
Sponsor: Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment
Amount: $100,000 over three years
Policy+ Fellowship - Vibrant Virginia: Advancing Community and Economic Development across Urban and Rural Virginia
Sponsor: Policy Strategic Growth Area
PI: Margaret Cowell
Amount: $11,000