Urban Planning and Public Policy Faculty

Energy and environmental justice; just transition; energy efficiency; public policy and program analysis; spatial analysis; race/ethnicity; community organizing and development; mobility

Water resources management and policy, global climate change policy, ethics and environmental decisions, adaptive management and sustainable development

Urban design, sustainable design and development, urban built form, spatial and social inequality, affordable housing, public participation and urban design, land use regulations, non-behavioral issues in urban design

Environmental justice, climate adaptation, geographic information systems, spatial analysis

Transportation, air pollution, urban inequality, environmental equity, spatial analysis

Urban social-spatial transformation, late-socialist, postsocialist and authoritarian regimes, globalization, infrastructure, real estate, development theory and practice, governance

Regional economic development, land use, economic–physical development nexus, location choice, urban system modeling

Land-use and environmental law, public-private programs, community development, local government, political participation

Climate justice, energy and environment, political ecology, social movements, global urbanism

Environment, conflict and peacebuilding; transnational threat networks; international ethics

Climate change, environmental justice, environmental studies, sustainability, urban planning

Urban sociology, politics and policy, social movements, immigration, comparative urbanism, theory, planning conflicts

Urban inequality, urban labor markets, labor, community organizing and development, racial inequality, immigration

Economic development, Latin America, U.S.-Mexico border, political economy, economic sociology, group learning, labor

Urban inequality, immigration, race/ethnicity, youth violence, sociology of education and social policy

Housing policy, urban governance, civic engagement, Mexican urban development, financialization

Active transportation, human mobility, spatial data science, built environment, urban planning

Environmental planning and policy, water resources management, collaborative governance