The Advisory Board of Cityscape |
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Peter Dreier is the Dr. E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics, and director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Program, at Occidental College in Los Angeles. He joined the Occidental faculty in January 1993 after serving for nine years as a senior official in Boston’s municipal government under Mayor Ray Flynn. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and his B.A. from Syracuse University. For more than three decades he has been involved in urban policy as a scholar, teacher, government official, journalist, and advocate for reform. Professor Dreier has written widely on American politics and public policy, specializing in urban policy, housing policy, community development, and community organizing. He is coauthor of three books on urban policy, The Next Los Angeles: The Struggle for a Livable City (University of California Press), Place Matters: Metropolitics for the 21st Century (University Press of Kansas), and Regions That Work: How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together(University of Minnesota Press) and coeditor of Up Against the Sprawl: Public Policy and the Making of Southern California (University of Minnesota Press). He has published more than 100 scholarly articles in edited books and journals, including the Harvard Business Review, Urban Affairs Review, Journal of the American Planning Association, North Carolina Law Review, Housing Policy Debate, National Civic Review, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Real Estate Finance Journal, Journal of Urban Affairs, Cityscape, Social Problems, Housing Studies, and others.
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Richard K. Green, Ph.D., is the Director of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate. He holds the Lusk Chair in Real Estate and is Professor in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development and the Marshall School of Business. Prior to joining the USC faculty, Dr. Green spent four years as the Oliver T. Carr, Jr., Chair of Real Estate Finance at The George Washington University School of Business. He was Director of the Center for Washington Area Studies and the Center for Real Estate and Urban Studies at that institution. Dr. Green also taught real estate finance and economics courses for 12 years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was Wangard Faculty Scholar and Chair of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics. He also has been principal economist and director of financial strategy and policy analysis at Freddie Mac. More recently, he was a visiting professor of real estate at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, and he continues to retain an affiliation with Wharton. He is or has been involved with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, the Conference of Business Economists, the Center for Urban Land Economics Research, and the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties. Dr. Green also is a Weimer Fellow at the Homer Hoyt Institute, and a member of the faculty of the Selden Institute for Advanced Studies in Real Estate. He was recently President of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association. Dr. Green earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned his A.B. in economics from Harvard University. |
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Keith R. Ihlanfeldt is the Director of the DeVoe L. Moore Center and holds the Devoe L. Moore Eminent Scholar Chair at The Florida State University. He also serves as a chief consultant to the Property Tax Oversight Program of the Florida Department of Revenue. His specialty areas are urban and regional economics, local public finance, and labor economics. He is on the editorial boards of eight academic journals and was recently elected a Fellow of the Regional Science Association, a distinction held by only 50 other regional scientists worldwide.
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Annette M. Kim is associate professor of international urban development at M.I.T.’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning where she teaches courses on housing, property rights, public finance, and project appraisal in developing countries. She researches the development of property markets and reformation of property rights in transition countries in eastern Europe and Asia. Her publications include Learning to be Capitalists: entrepreneurs in Vietnam’s Transition Economy by Oxford University Press, 2008. She has served as a consultant to the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements, the World Bank, African and Asian governments, as well as community-based NGOs. Professionally, she worked as an architect of low-income housing and construction project manager of commercial projects in the United States. She holds degrees from University of California Berkeley (Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning and M.A. in Visual Studies), Harvard University (M.P.P.), and Wellesley College (B.A.).
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Carlos Martín studies housing architecture and construction -particularly the social and industrial implications of housing’s physical quality, affordability, building regulation, environmental sustainability, and construction labor. Trained as an architect, construction engineer, and historian of technology, Dr. Martín has over 13 years of experience in government, academia, and industry managing research and advocacy programs in housing technology and policy locally, nationally, and internationally. He has authored numerous publications on technological policy and regulation in housing. He has consulted for construction workforce programs on green jobs, housing advocacy organizations on green building, and foreign governments and the World Bank on construction regulations and sustainable development. Dr. Martín is currently a Senior Associate in Abt Associates’ Social and Economic Policy Division. Prior, Carlos served as Assistant Vice President for Construction, Codes, and Standards and the National Green Building Program at the National Association of Home Builders. He was also Technical Director for Housing with the Development Innovations Group on two Gates Foundation-funded international housing and community development surveys, a researcher for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development's Affordable Housing Research & Technology Division and its Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH), and the SRP Assistant Professor for Energy and the Environment at Arizona State University's Del E. Webb School of Construction and School of Architecture. He received his BSAD in Architecture from MIT and his MS and PhD degrees in Civil & Environmental Engineering from Stanford. |
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Douglas S. Massey is the Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, where he supervises the Ph.D. program in urban policy studies. He is the co-author (with Nancy Denton) of the award-winning book American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass (Harvard University Press 1993) and numerous articles and books on urban poverty and racial stratification. He is also a leading specialist on immigration and is co-author (with Jorge Durand and Nolan Malone) of the award winning book, Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Age of Economic Integration (Russell Sage Foundation 2003). He is currently serves as President of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and is Past-President of the Population Association of America and the American Sociological Association. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Association.
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Sandra J. Newman is Professor of Policy Studies at Johns Hopkins University and Director of the Center on Housing, Neighborhoods and Communities in its Institute for Policy Studies. She holds joint professorial appointments in the Departments of Sociology and of Health Policy and Management (in the Bloomberg School of Public Health). She was a Fulbright Senior Fellow at the Australian National University and a Visiting Scholar in the research office of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, for which she received a Distinguished Service Award. Her research focuses on the role of housing in the lives of families, children, and disabled populations. Among her current projects are a study of subgroup differences in the effects of homeownership on children and the effects of housing affordability on child outcomes. She is a member of the MacArthur Foundation Network on Housing and Families with Children, and serves on several research advisory boards including the German Marshall Fund-U.S. Comparative Domestic Policy Project, the Center for Housing Policy, and the National Low-Income Housing Coalition. Newman has written numerous articles and written or edited several books including Low-End Rental Housing (2005); Housing and Mental Illness (2001); The Home Front: The Implications of Welfare Reform for Housing Policy (1999); and Beyond Bricks and Mortar (1992, with A. Schnare). In addition to Cityscape, she is on the editorial boards of Journal of Policy Analysis and Management and Housing Policy Debate.
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Marybeth Shinn is Professor and Chair of the Department of Human and Organizational Development at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. Her primary research focus is homelessness, including cross-sectional and longitudinal studies to understand the precursors of homelessness for families and older adults and experimental interventions to understand what combinations of housing and services end it for families and individuals with serious mental illnesses. She has also worked on targeting prevention programs, evaluated the coverage of street counts, examined the consequences of homelessness for children, and written about what we can learn about preventing homelessness from international comparisons. Beth serves on the Research Council for the National Alliance to End Homelessness, and has served on a Research Advisory Panel for the New York City Department of Homeless Services and as a faculty member for State Policy Academies run by the Federal Interagency Council on Homelessness. Beth received her Ph.D. in social and community psychology from the University of Michigan in 1978, and her BA summa cum laude from Radcliffe College, Harvard University in 1973. She has served as president of the Society for Community Research and Action and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, and received the award for Distinguished Contributions to Theory and Research from the former group. She also studies how social settings affect individual well-being. Her edited book Toward Positive Youth Development: Transforming Schools and Community Programs won the 2010 Social Policy Edited Book Award from the Society for Research on Adolescence.
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Raymond Struyk is a Senior Fellow NORC at the University of Chicago. Before that he was principally at the Urban Institute in Washington, where he worked on strengthening social safety nets, active labor market programs, housing sector reform, and the institutional development of think tanks. For three years he served at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Evaluation. From 1992 until the fall of 1998 he was resident in Russia, directing the USAID-supported housing sector reform program. Other housing reform-related resident advisory positions have been in Egypt, Hungary and Germany. He is the author of about 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals and 30 books. Mr. Struyk has been of member of the Board of Trustees at the Institute for Urban Economics since 1995. He is presently on the editorial boards of seven journals. Mr. Struyk received his PhD in economics from Washington University in St. Louis.
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Paul Waddell is Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. He teaches and conducts research on modeling and planning in the domains of land use, housing, economic geography, transportation, and the environment. He has led the development of the UrbanSim model of urban development and the Open Platform for Urban Simulation, now used by Metropolitan Planning Organizations and other local and regional agencies for operational planning purposes in a variety of U.S. metropolitan areas such as Detroit, Houston, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Seattle, as well as internationally in a growing list of cities in Europe, Asia, and Africa. His current research focuses on the assessment of the impacts of land use regulations and transportation investments on outcomes such as spatial patterns of real estate development and prices, travel behavior, emissions, and resource consumption. He is also working on ways to engage public participation in making complex policy choices. Over the past five years, Professor Waddell has served as PI or Co-PI on numerous research grants from the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Federal Highway Administration, and state and local governments. He is also active in providing consulting for local governments in developing and applying analytic tools for decision support, and began his professional career working as a regional planner with the North Central Texas Council of Governments. |
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John C. Weicher is Director of Hudson Institute's Center for Housing and Financial Markets. From 2001 to 2005 he served as Assistant Secretary for Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at HUD, with responsibility for half a trillion dollars of FHA mortgage insurance. His major initiatives included regulatory reform of the real estate settlement process, mission regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and establishing a risk-based premium structure for FHA's multifamily mortgage insurance. He previously served as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research at HUD from 1989 to 1993, and as Chief Economist at both HUD (1975-1977) and OMB (1987-1989). He has managed research staffs and projects at the Urban Institute and the American Enterprise Institute. During 2007-2008 he chaired the Committee to Evaluate the Research Plan of the Department of Housing and Urban Development of the National Research Council; he has also been a member of the Millennium Housing Commission, the Census Advisory Committee on Population Statistics, and the Committee on Urban Policy of the National Research Council. He holds an A.B. in English from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. He was President of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association in 1982, and received the Association's George Bloom Award for Career Achievement in 1993. He is the author or editor of fourteen books, and the author of numerous popular and scholarly articles. He has testified before Congressional committees on more than 40 occasions.
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