I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences and a faculty in the Public Policy Ph.D. program at UNC Charlotte. My research interests are focused on transportation, housing, and firm location. In particular I am interested in the effects of public and private investments on firm and household location behavior and how these micro-level behaviors shape intra-urban sorting patterns.
Some of my recent research projects include explorations into the effects of neighborhood amenities on residential sorting; rail transit investments on neighborhood change and residential mobility among low-income individuals; and economic impacts associated with the suburbanization of poverty. My research is quantitative with theoretical grounding in economics as well as geography.
Ph.D. (2015) Spatially Integrated Social Science (Geography/Economics), University of Toledo
M.A. (2011) Economics, University of Toledo
M.Sc. (2009) Economics, Luleå University of Technology (Sweden)
Reid, N. and I. Nilsson, 2022. From Mill District to Brewery District: Craft Beer and the Revitalization of Charlotte’s NoDa Neighborhood. In Harvey, D.C., E. Jones, and N. Chapman (eds.) Beer Places: The Micro-Geographies of Craft Beer, University of Arkansas Press.