Publications

Mandarano, L. (Forthcoming). “Remembering and Storytelling: Community engagement through a service-learning partnership.” Journal of Community  Practice.

Mandarano, L. 2023. “Empowering Emerging Leaders: A model public planning academy.” Community Development Journal. Published Online December 26, 2023. DOI:10.1093/cdj/bsad037

Mandarano, L. 2023. “Elevating Community Voice: Community Engagement in Planning Studio” in Routledge Handbook of University-Community Partnerships in Planning Education, eds. Megan Heim LaFrombois and Jay Mittal. Routledge Press. ISBN 9781032389875

Meenar, M. and L. Mandarano. 2021. “Using Photovoice and Emotional Maps to Understand Transitional Urban Neighborhoods.” Cities. V118, November 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2021.103353

Christman, Z, M. Meenar, L. Mandarano, and K. Hearing. 2018 “Prioritizing Suitable Locations for Green Stormwater Infrastructure Based on Social Factors in Philadelphia.” Land. Vol 7 (4: Special Issue Landscape Urbanism and Green Infrastructure)

Mandarano, L. and M. Meenar. 2017. “Equitable Distribution of Green Stormwater Infrastructure: A Capacity-based Framework for Implementation in Disadvantaged Communities.”  Local Environment. Published Online First July 3, 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2017.1345878

Mandarano, L. and M. Meenar. 2015.  “e-Participation: Comparing Trends in Practice and the Classroom.” Planning Practice and Research. Vol. 30 (4) 457-475.DOI:10.1080/02697459.2015.1017933

Mandarano, L. 2015. “Civic Engagement Capacity Building: An Assessment of the Citizen Planning Academy Model of Public Outreach and Education.” Journal of Planning Education and Research. Vol. 35 (2) 174-187. DOI:10.1177/0739456X14566869

Stokes, R., L. Mandarano and R. Dilworth.  2014.  “Community-Based Organizations in City Environmental Policy Regimes: Lessons from Philadelphia.”  Local Environment.  19:4, 402-416. DOI:10.1080/13549839.2013.788484

Welker, A., L. Mandarano, K. Greising and K. Hankins.  2013.  “Application of a Monitoring Plan for Stormwater Control Measures in the Philadelphia Region.” Journal of Environmental Engineering. 139:8, 1108-1118. DOI:10.1061/(ASCE)EE.1943-7870.0000714

Mandarano, L. and R. Mason. 2013 “Adaptive Management and Governance of Delaware River Water Resources.” Water Policy.  15:3, 364–385. DOI:10.2166/wp.2012.077

Mandarano, L. and K. Paulsen. 2011. “Governance Capacity of Collaborative Watershed Partnerships: Evidence from the Philadelphia Region.” Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 54:10, 1293-1313. DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2011.572694

Mandarano, L. 2011. “Clean Waters, Clean City: Sustainable Stormwater Management in Philadelphia” in Sustainability in America’s Cities: Creating the Green Metropolis, ed., Matt Slavin. Island Press.

Mandarano, L., M. Meenar, and C. Steins. 2010. “Building Social Capital in the Digital Age.” Journal of Planning Literature special issue on Communicative Cities: 25:2,123-135. DOI:10.1177/0885412210394102

Mandarano, L. 2010.  “Sustainable Land-use Planning: Revitalizing a flood prone office park.” Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 53:2, 183-196.  DOI 10.1080/09640560903529584.

Mandarano, L. 2009. “Social Network Analysis of Social Capital in Collaborative Planning.” Society and Natural Resources. 22:3, 245-260. DOI 10.1080/08941920801922182.

Mandarano, L. 2008. “Evaluating Collaborative Environmental Planning Outputs and Outcomes: Restoring and Protecting Habitat and the New York New Jersey Harbor Estuary Program.” Journal of Planning Education and Research. 27:4,456-469. DOI: 10.1177/0739456X08315888

Mandarano, L., J. Featherstone and K. Paulsen. 2008. “Institutions for Interstate Water Resources Management.” Journal of American Water Resources Association. 44:1,136-147.  DOI:10.1111/j.1752-1688.2007.00143.x

Book Reviews

“Dealing with Differences:  Dramas of Mediating Public Disputes.”  John Forester. New York: Oxford University Press 2009 in Journal of Planning Theory.  November, 2012: 11 435-436.

“The Living Landscape”, second edition and “The Fundamentals of Land Development” in Journal of Planning and Education Research. Summer (June) 2009.