Anne Brown

Jan 21, 2025 | tandfonline.com | Anne Brown |Calvin G. Thigpen |Nicholas Klein |Kelcie Ralph

AbstractProblem, research strategy, and findings Pilot projects are an increasingly popular tool for dealing with opposition to new ideas. The premise is simple—let experience change minds—but it belies considerable uncertainty. How do opinions evolve during a pilot project? How do planners make sense of shifting opinions, and what strategies do they employ to successfully navigate through it?

Nov 21, 2023 | pubs.acs.org | Anne Brown |Cole Gannett |Kateland Tiller |Anthony J. Briganti

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Oct 25, 2023 | writerunboxed.com | Emilie-Noelle Provost |Anne Brown |Diana Giovinazzo |Ray Rhamey

Back when I was the editor of a regional lifestyle magazine, I discovered that one of the photographers we worked with had a bachelor’s degree in music and that he had once worked as a professional musician. In her former career, an interior designer who was a consultant for the magazine had been a sought-after portrait photographer. Our creative director, a skilled graphic designer, had a side gig working as a comic book artist. The writers I worked with were no different.

Oct 24, 2023 | writerunboxed.com | Anne Brown

Since having my first novel published over a decade ago, I have received more writing advice than I can remember. I’ve crumpled some of that advice into hundreds of paper balls while the rest lives in three-ring notebooks flagged with colorful Post-it notes. The difficult thing about advice is that it’s almost always contradictory. To prologue or not to prologue, that is the question. Therefore, deciding what works best can only be determined after much trial and error.

Feb 7, 2023 | parking-mobility-magazine.org | Nicholas Klein |Anne Brown |Calvin G. Thigpen

6. Provide plentiful, intuitive parking and scooter riders will use itIn-app messages and sidewalk decals represent small-scale interventions that cities can implement to reduce scooter mis-parking, and both proved marginally effective at doing so. Cities can also implement broader scale interventions such as lock-to requirements, where scooters must be parked and physically locked to bike racks or other infrastructure. In the U.S., just four cities impose “lock-to” requirements (Brown, 2021).