Lee, C. A., & Harris, J. C. (2024). Outsourcing neighborhood planning processes? A case study of a nonprofit in the City of Oklahoma City. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 44(3), 1898-1911. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X221131743.
Before entering academia, John Harris worked for a number of years in the area of post-conflict community development in South Sudan. His research interests include the everyday practices of informal economic production, the needs of vulnerable populations and their capacity to make local change in urbanizing Africa, and the ways people meet their urban service needs via informal infrastructure systems.
Lee, C. A., & Harris, J. C. (2024). Outsourcing neighborhood planning processes? A case study of a nonprofit in the City of Oklahoma City. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 44(3), 1898-1911. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X221131743.
Davidson, L., Demir, F., & Harris, J. (2024). Grassroots Organizations and Women’s Empowerment in a Post-Conflict Region: Evidence from Women Organizations in Northern Uganda. Journal of Globalization and Development, (0). https://doi.org/10.1515/jgd-2022-0062.
Lee, C. A., & Harris, J. C. (2024). Practitioner Perceptions of City-Subcontracted Community Organizing: An Exploratory Study in Oklahoma City. Journal of the American Planning Association, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2024.2307928.
Harris, J. C., Komakech, D., Monk, D., & del Guadalupe Davidson, M. (2023). The gendered postconflict city: Possibilities for more livable urban transformations in Gulu, northern Uganda. Journal of Urban Affairs, 45(3), 647-664. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2022.2081577.
Harris, J., Lê, C., & del Guadalupe Davidson, M. (2022). Reflections on Community-Based Participatory Research Techniques in Global Planning and Design Courses in Zambia. In The Routledge Companion to Architectural Pedagogies of the Global South (pp. 407-418). Routledge.
Monk, D., Davidson, M., & Harris, J. (2021, February 23). Gender and Education in Uganda. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.1289
Davis, D., Harris, C., Johnson, V., Pennington, C., Redus, C., Sanders, T., Ta-Nesert, N.-H., Sofola, G., Morrison, V., Harris, J., & Gulilat, E. (2020). Black women’s perspectives on neighborhood safety: Reflections from The Women of Northeast Oklahoma City Photovoice Project. Gender, Place & Culture, 27(7), 917-943. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2019.1611547
Harris, J. C., & Little, S. (2019). Mapping Hope: How Do Vulnerable Youth Locate Hope in Informal Settlements? Urban Forum, 30(3), 289-306. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-019-09361-9
Acan, G., Amony, E., Harris, J., & del Guadalupe Davidson, M. (2019). How formerly abducted women in post-conflict situations are reasserting their humanity in a hostile environment: Photovoice evidence from northern Uganda. Gender & Development, 27(2), 273-294. https://doi.org/10.1080/13552074.2019.1615291
Harris, J. C. (2019). What Are the Land Delivery and Land Holding Mechanisms for African Informal Light Manufacturing Clusters? Urban Forum, 30(1), 17-33. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-018-9343-6
Harris, J. C. (2018). Vulnerable Youth’s Perspectives and Priorities for Informal Settlements: Photovoice Evidence from Lusaka, Zambia. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 38(4), 398-412. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456x17709914
Harris, J. (2016). Joint action in Nairobi’s informal handicraft production clusters. International Development Planning Review, 38(3), 317-338. https://doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2016.18
Harris, J. (2015). Accra’s unregulated market-oriented sanitation strategy: Problems and opportunity. In A. Allen, A. Lampis, & M. Swilling (Eds.), Untamed Urbanisms. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315746692
Accra’s unregulated market-oriented sanitation strategy: Problems and opportunity (.pdf)
Harris, J. C. (2014). The confounding influence of urban informality on innovation and production specialisation in production clusters: Evidence from Nairobi. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 6(6), 529-539. https://doi.org/10.1080/20421338.2014.976989
Harris, J. (2014). The Messy Reality of Agglomeration Economies in Urban Informality: Evidence from Nairobi’s Handicraft Industry. World Development, 61, 102-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.04.001
Harris, J. (2014). Meeting the challenges of the handicraft industry in Africa: Evidence from Nairobi. Development in Practice, 24(1), 105-117. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2014.867478
Harris, J., Doan, P., & Wilson, K. (2012). Local development planning and the tourism sector: prospects for reducing volatility in tourism impacts in Kenya. International Development Planning Review, 34(2), 167-188. https://doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2012.11
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