Joanna Ganning

About Joanna Ganning

I use primarily quantitative methods to study the economic development of US communities marginalized by geography or population decline, with a goal of improving quality of life.

PhD in Planning, UIUC

MURP, Virginia Tech

BS, Penn State

Areas of Expertise

economic development, shrinking/legacy cities

Selected Publications

• Rubado, Meghan, Thomas Hilde, Joanna Ganning, and Wendy Kellogg. 2025. Interlocal Collaboration for Service Provision and Regional Planning in a Legacy City-Region Context. State and Local Government Review.
• Ganning, Joanna P. 2024. What Can Community Benefits Agreements Learn from Allied Policies? Lessons from a Systematic Literature Review. Journal of Planning Literature.
• Hilde, Thomas, Joanna Ganning, Wendy Kellogg, and Meghan Rubado. 2024. “Implementing Regionalism in the Context of Urban Decline: A Qualitative Evaluation of Exemplary Collaborative Planning Projects in Northeast Ohio.” Urban Affairs Review.
• Ganning, Joanna P. 2023. “Quantifying the Impacts on Central City Vacancy of Suburbanization without Growth.” Growth and Change, 54: 1002-1018.
• Ganning, Joanna P. 2024 (2022 online first). “Doctoral Education and the Academic Job Market in Planning.” Journal of Planning Education and Research 44(3): 1063-1077.
• Ganning, Joanna P. and Timothy Green. 2021 (June). “The Online Marketplace: Zero-Order City or Source of Social Inequality?” Growth & Change 52: 1251-1270.

Recent Courses Taught

• UST 605: Regional Theory and Analysis
• UST 250: The City in Film
• UST 601: Data Analytics for Social Impact