Dr. Renne’s Fall 2024 Planning Workshop Final Presentation at the Frisbie Group, December 5, 2024. The Fall 2024 graduate Planning Workshop class at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning just concluded. This marks my final course after teaching at FAU since January 2016. I will be starting at Tulane…
Recently, my longtime colleague and friend, Tom Sanchez, PhD, AICP, reached out on LinkedIn to ask for advice on resources for AI. I obtained my Doctorate from the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy in 2005, but since 2021, I have been pursuing a MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with…
As the Principal Investigator of the overarching study focusing on student commuting in southeast Florida, my colleagues and I published an article about one aspect of the research in the Journal of Transport & Health. This paper, led by Louis A. Merlin, with David A. Simpson, Katherine Freeman, and Serena Hoermann, tackles a topic that’s…
This weekend, my 11 year old son and I listened to the War on Cars podcast episode about a new book by Sara C. Bronin called ‘Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes our World’. I haven’t read the book yet but excited to get a copy. This is timely for me as I’m working…
The talk starts at: (start at 2:54:00) On October 24, 2024, I had the privilege of attending the Research-to-Practice Transit Symposium, where I presented insights into the complex relationship between transit-oriented development (TOD), land values, and gentrification. As a Professor at Florida Atlantic University and a recent Visiting Research Associate at the University of Oxford,…
As an urban researcher or data scientist, you’ve probably relied heavily on Pandas for data manipulation. It’s been the go-to “Excel on steroids” program. I’ve spent the past three years leaning Pandas but recently Polars has been catching my attention. Polars, written in Rust, is a DataFrame library that’s gaining traction for being incredibly fast…
Hurricane Milton exposed significant vulnerabilities in our ability to manage major storms. Roads were gridlocked and gas stations emptied. While the impacts to the Tampa region were significant, they could have been much worse. As we recover, it’s essential to rethink our approach. We must learn from the past and focus on retrofitting our communities…
September 30, 2024 Meet Professor John L. Renne. Learn a bit about him and his new website: JohnRenne.com
Professor John L. Renne 