![Member Spotlight: Robert Boyer](https://pages.charlotte.edu/inss/wp-content/uploads/sites/568/2014/12/Robert-Boyer-191x140.jpg)
Robert Boyer is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences at UNC Charlotte. He earned his PhD in Regional Planning from…
![Summary of the December Space Working Group Meeting](https://pages.charlotte.edu/inss/wp-content/uploads/sites/568/2014/12/InnerWellbeing-470x140.png)
The discussion of well-being was led by Michael Drinkwater at the December 1, 2014 phone meeting of the Space Working Group. Michael discussed several journal…
![Member Spotlight: Helene Hilger](https://pages.charlotte.edu/inss/wp-content/uploads/sites/568/2014/12/Helene-Hilger-178x140.jpg)
Dr. Hilger is a civil engineer who was engaged in environmental engineering research and teaching at UNC Charlotte before retiring in 2012. She started out…
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by Robert Boyer, UNC Charlotte Abstract: Urban planning and improvisational comedy are not obvious companions, and on the surface they seem contradictory: Isn’t urban planning…