Discipline(s):
Urban Planning, Public Policy/Administration, Transportation Engineering
Area(s) of Expertise:
Health, Safety, and Security in Cities, Transportation and Land use, Planning and Policy, Environmental and Social Impacts of Transportation, Comparative International Planning, Mexican Transportation and Urbanization
E-Mail:
cmcandrews@wisc.edu
Background:
Carolyn (Carey) McAndrews’s research centers on the questions: What are the characteristics of social and institutional environments that support environmentally sustainable and socially just development, and how do we know what is sustainable and just? Her current research focuses on how health-related values and policies become part of land development decision making, and whether these ideas challenge communities’ established economic, social, and physical relationships to the automobile, streets, and neighborhoods. Her dissertation was a comparative study of how professionals from different disciplines in Sweden and California frame the issue of safety in their work on road transportation. The study found minor differences in safety thinking, but significant differences in how safety policies link to larger development agendas. In other research, she has investigated pedestrian safety in middle-size Mexican cities; the role of tacit knowledge in safety oversight; how international organizations incorporate climate change considerations into their development projects; and how neighbors of urban arterial streets use and perceive these roads. Carey completed her Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning with a Designated Emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies from UC Berkeley in 2010. She has a multi-disciplinary background in economics (BA Brown University, 2000), urban planning (MCP UC Berkeley, 2006), and transportation engineering (MS UC Berkeley, 2006), and worked for an economics consulting firm between her undergraduate and graduate programs.
Journal Articles:
Click here for a list of Carolyn McAndrews' available publications in PubMed.
