Policy, Planning, and People: Promoting Justice in Urban Development

List of Contributors

Contributors Alberta Andreotti is a Researcher at the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Milano-Bicocca. Her main research interests are social capital and social networks, local welfare systems, poverty and social exclusion, and the middle class in comparative perspective. She has participated in several European projects, including comparative UrbEx-The Spatial Dimensions of Urban Social Exclusion and Integration. Tridib Banerjee is Professor of Planning and James Irvine Chair in Urban and Regional Planning in the School of Policy, Planning and Development, University of Southern California. His research focuses on design and planning of the built environment from a comparative perspective. He is interested in the political economy of urban design and development, and the effects of globalization on transitional urban forms and urbanism. Rachel G. Bratt is Professor and former Head of the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University and a Fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University. She also worked as a professional planner in the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, and has served on a number of boards and advisory committees. Her research is focused primarily on the role of nonprofit organizations in supplying decent, affordable housing to low-income households. Naomi Carmon is Professor of Urban Planning and Sociology and Joseph MeyerhoffChairinUrbanandRegionalPlanningattheFacultyofArchitecture and Town Planning, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. She is former President of Israel Sociological Society (ISS) and was a visiting professor at MIT and UCLA, University of British Columbia, and University of Auckland. She has served on Israeli government committees on land and planning issues and consulted with public and civic organizations. Her areas of teaching and 13423-Policy Planning and People_Carmon1.indd 383 3/14/13 9:48 AM 384 Contributors research have focused on social aspects of planning and evaluation of urban and regional plans, with an emphasis on urban regeneration and housing, social capital, and quality of life of minorities and immigrants. Karen Chapple is Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley and Theodore Bo Lee and Doris Shoong Lee Chair in Environmental Design. She specializes in community and economic development, metropolitan planning, and poverty, with a focus on the relationship between job growth and housing price appreciation, regional fair share housing programs, workforce development in information technology , housing dispersal programs, and regional collaboration. Norman Fainstein is Chair and Professor of Sociology at Connecticut College. He was President of Connecticut College, chief academic officer at Vassar College, and Dean of Faculty at the City University of New York (CUNY). His research and writings focus on urban history and politics, city and regional planning, economic development, race, social movements and public policy. Susan Fainstein is Senior Research Fellow at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, where she was previously Professor of Urban Planning. She has also taught at Columbia and Rutgers Universities and been a visiting professor at the University of Amsterdam, and the University of Witwatersrand. Her teaching and research have focused on comparative urban public policy, planning theory, and urban redevelopment . Among her books are The Just City, The City Builders: Property, Politics, and Planning in London and New York, Restructuring the City, and Urban Political Movements. She is a recipient of the Distinguished Planning Educator Award and the Davidoff Book Award of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. Eran Feitelson is Professor at the Department of Geography and Head of the Federmann School of Public Policy and Government at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since 1999 he has also served as chair of the Israeli Nature Reserves and National Parks Board. He has published widely on planning , water policy (including transboundary water) and transport policy issues. 13423-Policy Planning and People_Carmon1.indd 384 3/14/13 9:48 AM 385 Contributors Amnon Frenkel is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning and Head of the Graduate Program for Urban and Regional Planning at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. His research interests are land use projection models, regional and metropolitan planning, urban spatial dynamics and regional aspects of technology diffusion. George Galster is Clarence Hilberry Professor of Urban Affairs at the Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Wayne State University. His research interests are metropolitan housing markets, racial discrimination and segregation, neighborhood dynamics, residential reinvestment, community lending and insurance patterns, and urban poverty. Penny Gurstein is Professor and Director of the School of Community and...