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Lucie Laurian
August 2021 Curriculum Vitae
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PERSONAL PROFILE
ADDRESS
Office: 342 Jessup Hall Phone: (319) 353-2955
University of Iowa Email: [email protected]
Iowa City, Iowa 52242
EDUCATION
Ph. D. 2001 City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Mobilization as a Response to Risk Perceptions and Declines in
Housing Values in Communities Around Superfund Sites”
Masters 1995 Demography, Institut de Démographie Universitaire de Paris, University
Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris I (DESS, “Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures
Specialisées,” terminal Masters degree)
Masters
1995
Sociology, University René Descartes- Paris V (DEA, “Diplôme
d'Etudes Approfondies,” degree preceding a doctorate)
Undergraduate
1993
Sociology, University René Descartes- Paris V (DEUG, “Diplôme
d'Etudes Universitaires Générales” and Licence)
LANGUAGES: French: native; English: fluent; Spanish: read and spoken; German: spoken
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Summer 2021- Director, School of Planning and Public Affairs, University of Iowa
2020- 2021 Associate Director, School of Planning and Public Affairs, University of Iowa
2017- Full Professor, School of Planning and Public Affairs, University of Iowa
2009- 2016 Associate Professor, School Urban and Regional Planning, University of Iowa
2004- 2009 Assistant Professor, School Urban and Regional Planning, University of Iowa
2001- 2004 Assistant Professor, School of Planning, University of Arizona
RESEARCH AREAS
▪ Urban and environmental planning (sustainability, resilience, urban forestry)
▪ Plan evaluation and implementation (U.S. and New Zealand)
▪ Environmental injustice and public participation in decision-making (U.S. and Europe)
▪ Planning theory, Democracy, Trust, Time
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FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS AND GRANTS
2021 - “Public Libraries for Disaster Resilience: Assessing Libraries’ Community Impacts in
Times of Climate and Socio-Economic Crises,” University of Iowa Jumpstarting
Tomorrow Initiative. (PI, $150,000)
- Career Development Award, The University of Iowa
2020
- ACSP/Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Curriculum Innovation Award for the course
Eight Generational Planning: Envisioning Cities for Year 2228, joint with S. Spak and S.
Spears
- Korea Foundation Field Research Fellowship, South Korea
2017 - Faculty Service Award from the Iowa Initiative for Sustainable Communities, UI
Provost’s Office of Outreach & Engagement
- Elected Midwestern Regional Representative to ACSP Governing Board (2017-19)
- ACSP Featured Faculty, http://www.acsp.org/?page=FFLucieLaurian
- Stanley International Travel Award from International Programs, awarded to participate
in the Urban Planning History conference in Delft, The Netherlands, July 17-21.
2011-
2014
2006
“Sustainability-promoting local institutions” (PI). Funded by the National Science
Foundation Decision and Risk Management division (# 1122730, $390,000)
“Environmental Justice in France: Social and spatial distribution of pollution sources
among the 36,000 French communes” (PI). Funded by the University of Iowa International
Programs ($3,000)
2004 “Democracy in Environmental Cleanups: Are Advisory Boards Effective Participation
Mechanisms?” (PI). Funded by the University of Iowa Social Sciences Funding Program,
($30,026)
2002 “Participation in toxic site remediation: are community advisory boards successful?” (PI).
Funded by a University of Arizona Faculty Small Grant ($9,969)
2000 Dissertation Fellowship, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1999 Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development ($15,000)
1996
Tinker Field Research Travel Fellowship, Institute for Latin American Studies, University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1995 Fulbright Fellowship, awarded by the Franco-American Commission for Ph.D. in City and
Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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INVITED RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS
2012 Invited Researcher at the Université du Littoral Cote d’Opale. Research on perceptions of
and response to industrial risks, Dunkerque, France.
2001-2010 Researcher at the International Global Change Institute, University of Waikato, New
Zealand. Research on plan quality, implementation and outcome, and evaluation
methodologies in “Planning Under a Cooperative Mandate” project funded by the NZ
Foundation for Research, Science, and Technology.
2006-2011 Invited Researcher at the French Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques. Research on
environmental justice in France in collaboration with the Research Team “Mortality, Health,
Epidemiology”, Paris, France.
1997-99 Research Assistant, Carolina Population Center with Dr. Bilsborrow. Research on migration
to Quito, Ecuador funded by the NSF and the International Food Policy Research Institute.
Research on out-migration from the Ecuadorian Amazon funded by the NSF and the World
Wildlife Fund.
PUBLICATIONS
Laurian, L. E. Sternberg and N. Voigt da Mata. Forthcoming. The Transgressive Urban Forest: An
Ecological Aesthetic for the Anthropocene. Journal of the American Planning Association.
Laurian L. 2021. “Planning: Reclaiming the Dream of Better Futures” in M. Zapata and L. Bates (eds)
Planning Just Futures. Planning Theory and Practice. DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2021.1956815
Eisenman, T., S.. Chang, L. Laurian. Forthcoming. “Stewarding street trees for a global urban future:
Paris, Taipei, and Washington, D.C” in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional
Futures (Springer International Publishing AG).
Han A., L. Laurian, C. Brinkley. 2021. Thermal Planning: What Can Campuses Teach Us about
Expanding District Energy? Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. Published online:
17 Feb 2021
Han, A., L Laurian and Dewald J. 2020 Plans v. Political Priorities: Lessons from Candidates’ Social
Media Communications in Municipal Elections. Journal of the American Planning Association,
87(2): 211-227.
Han, A., L. Laurian & M.H. Go. 2020. Transforming incinerators into community amenities? The Seoul
experience, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 63(8): 1427-1452.
Laurian, L. 2019. Planning for Street Trees and Human–Nature Relations: Lessons from 600 Years of
Street Tree Planting in Paris. Journal of Planning History 18 (4): 282-310.
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Linkous, E.R., L. Laurian and S. Neely. 2019. Why do Counties Adopt Transfer of Development Rights
Programs? Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 62(13): 2352-2374.
Laurian, L and A. Inch. 2019. On Time and Planning: Opening Futures by Cultivating a “Sense of
Now.” Journal of Planning Literature 34(3): 267-285.
Crawford J. and L. Laurian. 2017. “Plan Monitoring and Evaluation” in C. Miller and L. Beattie (eds.)
Planning Practice in New Zealand, LexisNexis New Zealand Ltd.
Inch, A., L. Laurian and C. Mouat. 2017. Planning in the face of immoveable subjects: a dialogue about
resistance to development forces. Planning Theory and Practice 18 (3): 469-488.
Connerly, C., Laurian, L. and J. Throgmorton. 2017. Planning for Floods at the University of Iowa: A
Challenge for Resilience and Sustainability. Journal of Planning History 16 (1): 50-73.
Laurian, L., M. Walker and J. Crawford. 2017. Implementing Environmental Sustainability in Local
Government: The Impacts of Framing, Agency Culture and Structure in US Cities and Counties.
International Journal of Public Administration 40(3) 270-283.
Laurian, Lucie and Jan Crawford. 2016. Organizational Factors of Environmental Sustainability
Implementation: An empirical analysis in US Cities and Counties. Journal of Environmental
Policy and Planning 18(4):482-506.
Laurian, L. and J. Crawford. 2016. Sustainability in the US and New Zealand: Explaining and
addressing the implementation gap in local government. Journal of Environmental Planning and
Management 59 (12): 2124-2144.
Benmarhnia, T., L. Schwarz and L. Laurian. 2015. Social Inequalities Related to Incinerator Emissions:
an additional level of environmental injustice. Environmental Justice. 8(6): 213-219.
Funderburg, R. and L. Laurian. 2015. Bolstering Environmental (In)Justice Claims with a Quasi-
Experimental Research Design. Land Use Policy. 49: 511-526.
Crawford, Jan and Lucie Laurian. 2015 Organisational factors influencing implementation of
environmental sustainability, Part 2. Planning Quarterly 196: 28-33.
Crawford J. and Laurian L. 2014. Organisational factors influencing implementation of environmental
sustainability. Planning Quarterly 193:34-37.
Laurian L., Funderburg, R. 2014. Environmental Justice in France? A spatio-temporal analysis of
incinerator location. Environmental Planning and Management 57(3): 424-446.
Benmarhnia, T., Laurian, L and S. Deguen. 2013. Measuring Spatial Environmental Deprivation: a new
index and its application in France. Environmental Justice 6(2): 48-55.
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Laurian, L. 2012. This is what direct democracy looks like: How Athens in the 5th century BC resolved
the question of power. Town Planning Review 83(4):v-xii.
Laurian, L. 2012. Paris: An Ecocity in the 21st Century. In Timothy Beatley (Ed.) Green Cities of
Europe: Global Lessons on Green Urbanism. Island Press.
Viel J.F., M. Hagi, E. Upegui, L. Laurian. 2011. Environmental justice in a French industrial region: are
polluting industrial facilities equally distributed? Health and Place, 17(11): 257-262.
Laurian L, Crawford J, Day M, Kouwenhoven P, Mason G, Ericksen N, Beattie L. 2010. Evaluating the
outcomes of plans: theory, practice, and methodology. Environment and Planning B: Planning
and Design, 37(4): 740-757.
Laurian, L. 2009. Trust in planning: Theoretical and Practical Considerations for Participatory and
Collaborative Planning. Planning Theory and Practice, 10(3): 369-391.
Laurian, L. and M. Shaw. 2009. Public Participation and its Evaluation: the State of Planning Practice.
Journal of Planning Education and Research, 28(3): 293-309.
Laurian, L. 2008. Social distribution of environmental risks: Theoretical, methodological and analytical
foundations, and a first town-level analysis in France. (La distribution sociale des risques
environnementaux: Fondations théoriques, méthodologiques et analytiques, et première analyse
communale en France.) Population, 63 (4): 617-634.
Laurian, L., Crawford, J., Day, M., Beattie ,L. Kouwenhoven, P., Mason, G., and Ericksen, N. 2008.
Can the effectiveness of plans be monitored? Answers from POE, a new Plan Outcome
Evaluation Method. Planning Quarterly, 170:26-30.
Laurian, L. 2008. Environmental Injustice in France. Journal of Environmental Planning and
Management, 51(1): 55-79.
Laurian, L. 2007. Deliberative Planning through Citizen Advisory Boards: Five Case Studies from
Military and Civilian Environmental Cleanups. Journal of Planning Education and Research,
26(4): 415-434.
Laurian, L. 2006. Planning for Active Living: Should we support a new moral environmentalism?
Planning Theory and Practice, 7(2): 117-136.
Srivastava R. and Laurian, L. 2006. Natural Hazard Mitigation in Local Comprehensive Plans: The Case
of Flood, Wildfire and Drought Planning. Disaster Prevention and Management: An
International Journal, 15(3): 461-483.
Berke, P., Backhurst, M., Laurian, L., Day, M., Crawford, J., Ericksen, N. and Dixon, J. 2006. What
Makes Successful Implementation of Plans? An Evaluation of Local Plans and Implementation
Practices in New Zealand. Environment and Planning B, 33(4): 581– 600.
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Laurian, L. 2005. Public Input in toxic site cleanup decisions: the strengths and limitations of
Community Advisory Boards. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 32: 445-467.
Bechtol V. and Laurian L. 2005. Restoring Straightened Rivers for Sustainable Flood Mitigation.
Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal 14 (1): 6-19.
Laurian, L., Day, M., Backhurst, M., Berke, P. R., Ericksen, N., Crawford, J., Dixon, J., and Chapman,
S. 2004. What drives Plan Implementation? Plans, Planning Agencies and Developers. Journal
of Environmental Planning and Management, 47(4): 555-577.
Laurian, L., Day, M., Berke, P. R., Ericksen, N., Backhurst, M., Crawford, J., and Dixon. J., 2004.
Evaluating Plan Implementation: A Conformance-Based Methodology. Journal of the American
Planning Association, 70(4), 471-480.
Laurian, L. 2004. Public participation in environmental decision making: findings from communities
facing toxic waste cleanup. Journal of the American Planning Association 70(1):53-65.
Laurian, L. 2003. A Prerequisite for Participation: Environmental Knowledge and What Residents
Know About Local Toxic Sites. Journal of Planning Education and Research 22(3): 257-269.
Bilsborrow, R. Laurian L. and L. Murphy. 1998. Migration Decisions Among Settler Families in the
Ecuadorian Amazon: the Second Generation. Research in Rural Sociology and Development,
Volume 7, Pp. 169-195.
Laurian, L. 1998. Responses to Community-level Environmental Problems: an Interdisciplinary
Approach. proceedings of 4th International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Environment, in
Washington, D.C., July 1998 (peer reviewed).
Laurian, L. 1995. Parisians and the Construction of the Modern Waste Management System in the 19th
Century. Assises de l'UFR de Sciences Sociales, University of René Descartes- Paris V.
Book Reviews
Laurian, L. 2013. The environmental impact statement after two generations: Managing environmental
power. Greenberg, M R (Routledge, 2012). Journal of the American Planning Association 79(1):
99-100.
Laurian, L. 2013. Climate Change and Cities: First assessment report of the Urban Climate Change
Research Network. Rosenzweig C, Solecki W, Hammer S and Mehrotra S (eds.) (Cambridge
University Press, 2011). Journal of Planning Education and Research 33(2): 242-244.
Laurian, L. 2012. Discourse Dynamics in Participatory Planning – Opening the Bureaucracy to
Strangers by Diana MacCallum (Ashgate 2009). Planning Theory 11(2) 208-211.
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Laurian, L. 2011. Climatopolis: How our cities will thrive in the hotter future by Matthew E. Kahn
(Basic Books, 2010). Journal of the American Planning Association 77(3) 297-298.
Laurian, L. 2008. Designing Greenways: Sustainable Landscapes for Nature and People, by Paul
Cawood Hellmund and Daniels Somers Smith. Island Press, 2006. Journal of the American
Planning Association 74 (1): 145
Laurian, L. 2007. Incentives, Regulations and Plans: The Role of States and Nation-states in Smart
Growth Planning, by Gerrit-Jan Knaap, et al. Edward Elgar, 2007. Growth and Change: A
Journal of Urban and Regional Policy 38(4): 735-737.
Laurian, L. 2003. International Urban Planning Settings: Lessons of Success (International Review of
Comparative Public Policy, Vol. 12). Jack F. Williams and Robert J. Stimson (eds.) NewYork:
JAI Press 2001. Reviewed in Papers in Regional Science, 82 (2): 297-299
Manuscripts under review and in process
Laurian, L., Qian, H., Yifan, Ren and Zuo, Z. “Understanding planning research and planning schools
in North America” R& R with the Journal of Planning Education and Research.
Laurian, L. and A. Göçmen. Planners’ ecological knowledge and know-how: strengths and gaps. Work
in progress, planned submission to the Journal of Planning Education and Research.
Laurian, L. and Han, A. “Tracking Planning Decision-Making Process and Implementation using
Elected Officials’ Social Media Communications and Votes” to be submitted to the Journal of
Planning Education and Research.
Laurian, L., A. Inch and L. Pollans. Time in Planning Education. Work in progress.
Laurian, L. Institutional Factors of Sustainability Implementation in Local Government: The cases of
LAmsterdam and Venice. Status: In revision.
Laurian, L. “Regenerative Urban Green Spaces: What Would it Look Like?” In Biggers, J. (ed.)
Ecopolis Iowa City: Creating the First Regenerative City in the Heartland, The University of
Iowa Press. Book chapter accepted. Publication date unknown.
Other publications/ online presence
“Best Small Cities in America,” WalletHub Oct 20, 2020 at https://wallethub.com/edu/best-worst-small-
cities-to-live-in/16581#expert=Lucie_Laurian
“Fastest-Growing Cities in America,” WalletHub Oct 1, 2018 at https://wallethub.com/edu/fastest-
growing-cities/7010/#expert=lucie-laurian
“2018’s Best Small Cities in America,” WalletHub Oct 29, 2018 at https://wallethub.com/edu/fastest-
growing-cities/7010/#lucie-laurian
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PRESENTATIONS
Invited presentations
“Pandemic Insights: Obermann Center Conversations” interviewed with Charles Connerly by Jennifer
University of Iowa, April 17 2020
“What is Planning?” talk given in UI Environmental Policy and Planning Students, March 10 2020.
“Globalizing Planning Education.” GPEIG Roundtable, ACSP Oct 25 2019.
“Student Workshop: Publishing in Planning: Where & How?” ACSP roundtable, Oct. 26 2018.
“Planning for Environmental Health” The Gazette’s Iowa Ideas Conference, Cedar Rapids, Sept. 20
2017.
“Urban Planning: an introduction” talk given in UI Environmental Sciences class, Nov 2016.
“Urban Forestry and biodiversity,” talk given to the University of Iowa Student Environmental
Coalition, UI Office of Sustainability, March 24 2016.
“Ecopolis Iowa City Forum: flood resilient urban forestry and food systems, from Mosquito Flats
to Pawpaw Patch,” Introduced and moderated the forum, Iowa City Public Library, April 4 2016.
“Urban Public Spaces,” talk given at Hardin Junior High School, Cedar Rapids, Sept. 12 2016.
“Urban Planning is up for discussion,” talk given at the Iowa City Northwest Junior High School, Dec.
18 2015.
“Third anniversary of Hurricane Sandy” Panel sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Human
Rights, Global Health Studies and Iowa Physicians for Social Responsibility, Oct 29 2015.
“When irresistible forces meet immoveable subjects: facing the challenging subject of opposition in
planning,” Roundtable at the Association of the Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference,
Houston, Oct 22-25 2015.
“Ecopolis Bike Here”. Introductory presentation for Ecopolis talks. Iowa City, April 30 2015. Posted on
Earth Channel, City Channel 4.
“Sustainability implementation in local government in the US and NZ” presented at the University of
Iowa Environmental Science Seminar, October 23 2014.
“Implementing Sustainability in Practice: Institutional Barriers and Supporting Factors. Findings from
US localities and 2 European cases” presented at the University of Iowa Geography Colloquium,
February 7 2014.
“Where is the public interest in public participation?” roundtable participant, AESOP-ACSP joint
Congress, Dublin, July 14-19 2013.
“Implementing sustainability: the role of intra-agency communication and framing in local government
in NZ and the US” with Jan Crawford, Dunedin University, New Zealand, March 12 2013.
“Where is the public interest in public participation?” Roundtable, joint congress of the European
Schools of Planning and the American Collegiate Schools of Planning, Dublin, July 14-19 2013.
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“Environmental Justice in France” Presented in Eric Tate’s course “Environmental Justice” (044:177),
University of Iowa, Oct. 17 2012.
“Environmental Injustice: Evidence, causes and policy responses” presented in course “Policy Matters:
Perspectives on Contemporary Problems,” University of Iowa, Apr. 18 2012.
“Urbanism and health” Presented in Nancy Thompson’s course “Social Determinants of Health”
172:130. University of Iowa Department of Community and Behavioral Health, Feb. 6 2012.
“Urban and Environmental planning: What’s new?” Professional development seminar for the staff of
Kirkwood School for Children, Iowa City, March 12 2011.
“Greening Paris in the 21st century.” Presented in Sabine Golz’s course “Topics in Literature and
Theory, City as Text/Text as City” 048:166. University of Iowa, March 10 2011.
"The Greening of Paris: Creating New Parkland in a Compact City," University of Iowa Green Politics
conference, Dec. 3-4 2010.
“Environmental Justice in France,” Rex Honey’s 44:177 class, University of Iowa Geography
Department, Nov. 10 2010.
“Green urbanism: The new face of Paris in the 21st century,” University of Iowa European Studies
Group, Oct. 29 2010.
“Location of incinerators in France: Results froma spatio-temporal analysis,” Institut National d’Etudes
Démographiques, Paris, July 9 2010.
“Environmental Justice in France? A spatio-temporal analysis of incinerator location,” Geographical
Sciences and Urban Planning Colloquium, Arizona State University, Tempe, Apr. 30, 2010.
“Superfund and Other Hazardous Sites: Public Input in Mitigation Decisions,” Toxicology research
seminar series of the Interdisciplinary program in human toxicology, Department of Occupational
and Environmental Health, University of Iowa, Apr. 9 2010.
“International Research in Planning,” Introduction to International Studies (187:020) Department of
Political Science, University of Iowa, March 30 2010
“The Built Environment and Health: Making biking and walking possible, irresistible,” Department of
Epidemiology, College of Public Health, The University of Iowa, March 5 2010.
“Paris Urbanism from Cesar to Sarko,” European Studies Group, University of Iowa, Feb. 20 2010
“The 2008 Floods: a broad planning perspective,” Fall School of Instruction of the Iowa State
Association of Counties, Coralville, Nov. 19-21, 2008.
“Sprawl, the Environment and Public Health: Planning solutions to make biking and walking possible
again,” Environmental Sciences Seminar (159:100), Department of Geoscience, University of Iowa,
Nov. 14 2007.
"Environmental Justice: Ongoing Casual and Methodological Debates." Project on the Rhetoric of
Inquiry Symposium "Toxic Talk: A Cross-Disciplinary Conversation about Environmental Justice
and Sustainability." The University of Iowa, Sept 21 2007.
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“Local Food Systems in Iowa.” Iowa County Zoning Officials Conference, Cedar Falls, IA, Jun. 14
2007.
“Iowa City – Cedar Rapids. Regional Environmental Questions: Current Issues & New Directions.”
Regional Planning Summit organized by the Urban and Regional Planning Program of the
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, Feb. 3 2007.
“Environmental Injustice: Can the Concept Travel to France?” Occupational and Environmental Health
Seminar (175:280), Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Iowa
College of Public Health, Oakdale Campus, Oct. 31 2006.
“Environmental Injustice in France? Populations and pollution in the 36,000 French towns,”
International Mondays series, Iowa City Public Library, Oct. 9 2006.
“Environmental risks in France: Which populations are exposed?” Lundi de l’INED Seminar Series,
Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques (INED), Paris, France, June 26 2006.
“Health and the Built Environment: How to Plan Healthy Communities,” Kohn Colloquium, University
of Iowa Department of Geography, Feb. 24 2006.
“The Relationship Between Health and the Built Environment,” Community and Behavioral Health
Seminar Series, University of Iowa College of Public Health, Feb. 2 2006.
“Planning for Healthy Cities: Urban Form, Smart Growth, and New Urbanism,” Preventing Childhood
Overweight and Obesity, a North Central Region Conference hosted by Iowa State University and
the Food and Society Committee of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant
Colleges, Ames, Iowa, March 28-29 2005.
Papers presented at professional meetings
“Turning LULUS into Assets: Is it working? The case of incinerators and closed facilities” with A. Han
and M. Go, presented at the Association of the Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, Virtual
event, November 5-8, 2020.
“Regenerating the Environment: Are Planners Prepared? A study of American Planners’ Environmental
Knowledge, Know-how and Experience” with A. Göçmen, presented at the Association of the
Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, Virtual event, November 5-8, 2020.
“Extending University Energy District Systems Beyond Campus Boundaries: Potentialities and
Realities,” with Han, A. and C. Brinkley, presented at the Association of the Collegiate Schools of
Planning Conference, Greenville, Oct 24-27 2019.
“Revolt of the Street Trees: The Eco-Aesthetics of the Insurgent Forest,” with E. Sternberg, presented at
the Association of the Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, Greenville, Oct 24-27 2019.
“Transforming Incinerators into Community Amenities? The Seoul Experience,” with A. Han and M. H.
Go, presented at the Association of the Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, Buffalo, Oct 23-
28 2018
“On time and Planning” with A. Inch, presented at the Association of the Collegiate Schools of Planning
Conference, Denver, Oct 12-15 2017
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“Street trees: Between path-dependencies and paradigm shifts: Lessons from the history of tree planting
in Paris” presented at the Association of the Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, Portland
Nov 3-6 2016
“Urban tree planting in Paris since 1600” presented at the Conference of the International Planning
History Society, Delft, The Netherlands, July 17-21 2016.
“What time is this place now?” presented at the Association of the Collegiate Schools of Planning
Conference, Houston, Oct 22-25 2015
“Sustainability implementation in local government in the US and NZ” with Jan Crawford. Presented at
the Association of the Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, Philadelphia, Oct 30-Nov2 2014.
“Environmental Sustainability in Practice: Local Government Features that Support Implementation”
with Jan Crawford, presented at AESOP-ACSP joint Congress, Dublin, July 14-19 2013.
“Environmental Sustainability in Practice: Local Government Features that Support Implementation”
with Jan Crawford, presented at the Joint Congress of the European Schools of Planning and the
American Collegiate Schools of Planning, Dublin, July 14-19 2013.
“Organizational Factors Sustainability Implementation in Local Government: Assessment by an
International Expert Panel” with Jan Crawford, presented at the Association of the Collegiate
Schools of Planning Conference, Cincinnati, Nov 1-3 2012.
“Institutional structures and the implementation of sustainability plans” with Jan Crawford, presented at
the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, in Salt Lake City, October
13-16 2011.
“New Evidence of Environmental Injustice in Western Europe: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis of
Incinerators Siting in France” presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual
Conference, in Minneapolis, Oct 7-10 2010.
“Planning for Floods at The University of Iowa: A Challenge for Resilience and Sustainability” with C.
Connerly, J. Scott, and J. Throgmorton, presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of
Planning Annual Conference, in Crystal City, Oct 1-4 2009.
“Trust in Planning: from Theory to Practice” presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of
Planning Annual Conference, in Milwaukee, Oct 18-22 2007.
“Environmental (In)Justice In Europe: Is The Concept Relevant? The Case Of France” presented at the
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, in Fort Worth, Nov 9-12 2006.
“Public Participation in Military and Civilian Environmental Cleanups: a Comparison of Advisory
Boards” presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, in
Kansas City, Oct. 26-29 2005.
“Planning and Public Health: Rebuilding Bridges in the 21st Century” presented at the Association of
Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, in Portland, Oct. 21-24 2004.
“Barriers to the use of IT by small cities and towns: Does race or income matter most? The case of
Southern Arizona” presented at the International Conference on Public Participation and Information
Technologies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nov.10-12 2003.
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“How Can Community Advisory Boards Better Promote Public Input in Toxic Site Cleanup Decisions?”
presented at the Joint Congress of the American Collegiate Schools of Planning and the Association
of the European Schools of Planning, Leuven, Belgium, July 8-12 2003.
“Public Participation in the Cleanup of Toxic Sites: Do Community Advisory Boards Achieve their
Mission?” presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, in
Baltimore, Nov. 21-24 2002.
“The quality of district plans and their implementation: towards environmental quality” by Backhurst,
M., Day, M., Crawford, J., Ericksen, N., Berke, P., Laurian, L., Barfoot, C., Chapman, S. and J.
Dixon. Presented to NZPI Conference, Wellington, 8-12 April 2002.
“Participatory Environmental Planning in Practice: Modes of Participation and Reasons for Non-
Participation in the Cleanup of Superfund Sites” presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools
of Planning Annual Conference, in Cleveland, November 8-11 2001.
“Residents’ Perceptions and Responses to the Cleanup of Superfund Sites: the Realities of Participatory
Environmental Planning,” presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual
Conference, in Atlanta, November 2-5 2000.
“Why do People Migrate? A Contextual Model of Migration in Ecuador,” by Lucie Laurian and Richard
E. Bilsborrow, paper presented at the Population Association of America 2000 Annual Meeting in
Los Angeles, March 23-25 2000.
“Are Deep South Grassroots on the Internet?” presented at the International Conference on Public
Participation and Information Technologies in Lisbon, Portugal, October 20-22 1999.
“Migrants' Entry into the Urban Labor Market in Quito, Ecuador: Determinants of Entry and Subsequent
Labor Mobility,” by Lucie Laurian, Richard E. Bilsborrow, and Andrew Morrison, paper presented
at the Population Association of America 1999 Annual Meeting in New York, March 25-27 1999.
“The impacts of Environmental Degradation on Residential Choice and Mobility: a Theoretical Model,”
paper presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, in
Pasadena, CA, November 5-8 1998.
“Environmental Injustice: Testing the Housing Market Hypothesis at the Local Level,” paper presented
at the 20th Annual Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and
Management in New York City, October 29-31 1998.
“Planners and Environmental Justice: Environmental Degradation and the Decline of Poor and Minority
Neighborhoods,” paper presented at the 1998 Association of European Schools Of Planning, XIIth
Annual Congress, Aveiro, Portugal, July 22-25 1998.
“Population, Environmental Quality and Residential Choices: a Multidisciplinary Approach to the
Causes of Environmental Injustice,” paper presented at the International Interdisciplinary
Conference on the Environment, in Washington, D.C., July 7-10 1998.
“Causes of Environmental Injustice: Environmental Degradation and the Decline of Poor and Minority
Neighborhoods,” poster presented at the 1998 International Symposium on “City, Space and
Globalization,” College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan, in Ann
Arbor, Michigan, February 1998.
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TEACHING
COURSES TAUGHT
University of Iowa, 2004-2021
Eight Generational Planning: Envisioning Cities for Year 2228 undergraduate
The Making of cities: Planning Histories and Theories graduate
Designing Sustainable and Healthy Cities graduate
Environmental Policy and Management graduate
Environmental Management graduate
Analytic Methods in Planning I graduate
Global Perspectives on Environmental Planning graduate
Urban Design for Non-Designers graduate
Healthy Cities and Environmental Planning graduate
Special topics in environmental planning seminar graduate
University of Arizona, 2001-2004
Planning Theory, graduate Urban Social Issues, graduate
Healthy Cities, graduate Reports in Planning, graduate
University of North Carolina, 1999-2000
Public Policy Evaluation, undergraduate
Demographic Analysis Module in Quantitative Methods course, graduate
Micro-Economics, graduate (teaching assistant)
Land, Environment, Resources Economics, graduate (teaching assistant)
FACULTY ADVISOR FOR CAPSTONE PROJECTS (Iowa Initiative for Sustainable
Communities)
2019-20 Keokuk Pathways and Greenways Plan
2018-19 Webster City Parks and Recreations Plan
2017-18 Mason City: North End Healthy Neighborhood Plan
2016-17 Mason City: Community Plan for Sustainability
2015-16 Sioux City: Downtown Greenspace Plan
Winneshiek County MetroNet Fiber-optic Network Plan
2014-15 Sioux City: Active Transportation- Blue Zones plan
2013-14 Cedar Rapids: Evaluation and Development iGreenCR Program
2011-12 Dubuque: Indicator and Indicator Measurement for 11 Sustainability Principles
Dubuque: Driftless area Food systems
2010-11 Charles City: Waterfront Development and Credit Trading
2009-10 Decorah: Stormwater Management and Utility Plans
Decorah: Economic Impacts of Frac Sand Mining
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STUDENT ADVISING, DISSERTATION AND MASTERS REPORT COMMITTEES
Other institutions
Ph.D. Committee Member
2017-18 Natalie Murdoch, Lincoln University, New Zealand
2018-19 Ritu Raj Kaur, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India
University of Iowa:
Ph.D. Committee Member
2019-21 Amina Grant, Civil and Environmental Engineering
2016-19 Cody Hodson, Geography
2010-17 Stève Levillain, French and Italian
Jaimie Sanchagrin, Geography
Bradley Parsons, American Studies
2011-2012 Nirmalla Barros, Institute for Rural and Environmental Health
Masters Theses Committee Member
2017-19 Brianna Zumhof, Geography and Sustainability Sciences
2012-13 Blake Rupe, International Studies
Masters in Planning Practicums and Independent Studies
2016 Samantha Wittrock: Health and Trails in Weld County, Colorado
2016 Qilu Chen: study of the economic advantages of ecological landscaping in Iowa City
2015 Samantha Wittrock: study of food systems in Latin America
2014 Gloria Wenman: Practicum in college teaching
2014 Zac Hall: Practicum on urban forestry and Emerald Ash Borer response plan for Iowa City
2014 Bailee McClellan: study of national, regional and local Danish planning systems
2012 Becky Soglin: study of alternative biomass sources for the University power plant
2012 Hannah Fleck: review of the literature on the conceptualization and implementation of
megascale infrastructure projects
2011 Lorin Ditzler: review of the mental health impacts of urban design and urban green
infrastructure (from an environmental psychology standpoint)
Masters students advising
2020-21 Mia Gerace, Asmita Poudel
2019-20 Benjamin Davison, Heather Flynn
2018-19 Ryan Schweitzer, Seth Thomas, Hannah Neel
2017-18 Michael Delp, Ryan Schweitzer, Seth Thomas
2016-17 Liz Darnall, Adam Kofoed, Mariah Kauder
2015-16 Ryan Dusil, Elizabeth Rumpza, Stewart Sankey, Samantha Wittrock, Rachel Serslev,
Jordan Brown
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2014-15 Della Caldwell, Xiaochen Hu, Matthew Van Hoeck, Ben Curtis, Li Wen Liu, Gabriel
Martin
2013-14 Mike Saporano, Della Caldwell, Xiaochen Hu, Michael Tylka, Yangli Wang
2012-13 Matthew Martin, Gloria Wenman, Caitlin Shananan, Yuan Zhang
2011-12 Christopher Bjornstad, Tyler Dvorak, Xiao Luo, Matthew Martin, Becky Soglin
2010-11 Michael Burke, Urvashi Chakraborty, Tyler Dvorak, Brittany Graham, Albert Han,
MaryGrace Weber
2009-10 Caroline Bringham, Andrew Collings, Katie Decker, Andrew Kass, Erik Lehman
2007-08 Meghan White, Tiffany Wilson, Douglas Ongie, Daphne Boulin
2006-07 Drew Westberg, Anne Russett, Bogdana Russ, Angela Stover, Brandy Howe
2005-06 Adam Galuzzo, Jennifer Jordan, Jeffrey Banks, Kristen Lueken
Undergraduate students
2010-11 Laura Wonderlin, International Studies
2006-07 Songwei Chen, International Studies
2005-06 Angela Stover, Summer Research Opportunities Program
University of Arizona: Dissertation and Masters Theses
Ph.D., Member of committee
2005 Angela Donelson. “Social Networks, Poverty and Development: an Analysis of Capacity
Building in Arizona and New Mexico Colonias”
Masters Theses, Chair of committees
2004 Rahul Srivastava. “Natural Hazard Mitigation Planning: Evaluation of Six Counties’
Comprehensive Plans in Arizona.”
Vanessa Bechtol. “Restoring straightened rivers: an alternative approach to sustainable
flood mitigation.”
Ari Posner. “The American Dream Lost: Predatory Lending and Foreclosures in Pima
County, Arizona.”
2003
Rob Zucarro. “Planning for the Sonoran Desert National Monument: Social Indicators as a
Social Analysis tool for Public Land Management”
Ethan Stapp. “Factors Affecting Interagency Wildland Fire Management and
Recommendations for Future Collaborative Endeavors”
Megan Johnson. “Brownfield Redevelopment in the City of South Tucson, Arizona”
Suzanna Randall. “Revitalization and Property Values: Fact or Fiction? The Case of
Tucson, Arizona”
2002
Ryan Raleigh. “Housing Market in the City of Tucson and in Pima County: Trends in
Housing Costs and Affordability”
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Masters Theses, Member of committees
2004
Sarah Prasek. “Rainwater Harvesting in US-Mexico Border Colonias: Integrating
Alternative Infrastructure in Planning”
2003
Gabriela Kinkead. “Suitability Study for Housing Development at the Wa:k Community of
the San Xavier District Tohono O’odham Nation”
Eric Heideman. “In the Name of Smart Growth An Analysis of Arizona's Growing Smarter
Plus.”
2002
Andrew Fleckner. “City of South Tucson Community Housing Plan”
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Undergraduate advising
1999 Alyssa Wilson, Honors thesis
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SERVICE
DEPARTMENTAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Service to the University of Iowa
2021- Director, School of Planning and Public Affairs (starting Summer 2021)
2020- Associate Director, School of Planning and Public Affairs
Member of the UI Faculty Policies and Compensation Committee
Member of the Advisory Council for the Iowa Center for Health Effects of
Environmental Contamination (CHEEC)
2019 Judge for the 2019 UI Jakobsen Graduate Conference
Evaluator for Public Policy Center Summer Scholar-in-Residence program (11 proposals)
2018 Chair, tenure review Department Consulting Group, Urban and Regional Planning
Faculty annual evaluation reviews, Urban and Regional Planning
2017 Judge for the 2017 Jakobsen Graduate Conference
Chair and member for four tenure, 3rd year and annual review committees for Urban and
Regional Planning faculty
2016 Chair and member for 3rd year and annual review committees for pre-tenure Urban and
Regional Planning faculty
Spring 2015 Assistant Interim Director, School of Urban and Regional Planning
2012-present Member of the Advisory Board for the School of Urban and Regional Planning
2010- present Annual Review Committee for pre-tenure faculty, Urban and Regional Planning
2010-present Outstanding student award committee, Urban and Regional Planning
2009-2014 Student Admissions Committee, Urban and Regional Planning
2012 Chair of a Promotion and Tenure review committee, Urban and Regional Planning.
Evaluation committee, UI Vice President for Research Social Science Funding Program
2011-2013 Speakers committee, Urban and Regional Planning
2008-2011 Flood Mitigation Task Force, University-wide
2011 Truman scholarship committee, University-wide
2010-11 Faculty search committee, Urban and Regional Planning
2008-09 Sustainability Curriculum Task Force, University-wide
Faculty Parking Appeals Committee, University-wide
2006-08 Fulbright Campus Student Competition Review Committee, International Programs
Faculty Summer Research Program Review Committee, International Programs
2005 David Forkenbrock Prize Committee, Urban and Regional Planning
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2004-05 Outstanding Student Award Committee, Urban and Regional Planning
University of Arizona
2003 Annual Review Committee School of Planning
Grievance Committee, School of Planning
Student Affairs Committee, School of Planning
2002-03 Chair, Ethical Review of Activities Involving Human Subjects, School of Planning
Tenure Review Committee, School of Planning
2001-03 Visual Resources Committee, College of Architecture, Planning & Landscape Archit.
Curriculum Committee, School of Planning
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
EDITORIAL WORK
2019- present Associate Editor, Journal of the American Planning Association
2019-present Review Article Editor, Planning Theory
2013-2019 Book Review Editor, Planning Theory
MEMBERSHIP IN EDITORIAL BOARDS
2017-present Sustainability and Disaster Risk Management
2014-present Développement durable et territoires (Sustainable Development and Territories)
2011-present Journal of Planning Education and Research
2010- present Journal of the American Planning Association
2009- present Town Planning Review.
2007- present Journal of Environmental Planning & Management
REVIEWER FOR SCHOLARLY JOURNALS
2001-present Reviewer for these journals:
- Journal of the American Planning Association
- Journal of Planning Education and Research
- Town Planning Review
- Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
- Environmental Management
- Journal of Environmental Management
- Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
- Planning and Design
- Environmental Impact Assessment Review
- Planning Theory
- Journal of Planning Literature
- Planning Theory and Practice
- Journal of Urban Affairs
- Journal of Urbanism
- State and Local Government Review
- Landscape and Urban Planning
- Human Ecology
- International Journal of Landscape Ecology
- Evaluation: the international journal of theory,
research and practice
- Environment and Planning
- Environment International
- Journal of the American Water Resources
Association
- Smart and Sustainable Built Environment
- Land Use Policy
- Environmental Research - Evaluation and Program Planning
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MENTORING
2019-present Mentor to a junior female faculty member at the Ohio State University
2016-present Mentor to a junior faculty at the University of Texas San Antonio
2015-present Mentor to a junior female faculty at the University of South Florida
2009-14 Mentor to two junior female faculty in Planning at the University of Iowa and at
Columbia University.
SERVICE TO THE AMERICAN COLLEGIATE SCHOOLS OF PLANNING AND PLANNING
ACCREDITATION BOARD
2021- Member of the ACSP Review and Appraisal Committee
2019-21 Co-Chair of the ACSP Task Force on Student Enrollment and STEM CIP codes
Member of the ACSP Values Statement Task Force
2018-20 Co-Chair of the ACSP Task Force on Student Enrollment in Schools of Planning
Member of the ACSP Governing Board working group on the ACSP values and mission
Member of the GPEIG working group on bylaws, awards, and Marsha
Ritzdorf award committee
PhD Students mentoring clinics
2017-19 Elected Midwestern Regional Representative to ACSP Governing Board
2017- Planning Accreditation Board Site visit team member (2 site visits)
2015-18 Chair of the ACSP Gill-Chin Lim Award for the Best Dissertation on International Planning
(ACSP Global Planning Educator's Interest Group)
2013-15 Member of the ACSP Gill-Chin Lim Award for the Best Dissertation on International Planning.
2012 Judge for the Poster competition at the Association of the Collegiate Schools of Planning,
Cincinnati, Nov 1-3.
2009 Conference of the Association of the Collegiate Schools of Planning, Crystal City, Oct 1-4.
- Participant in FWIG Roundtable – Managing Your Career in the Twenty-first Century
2007 Conference of the Association of the Collegiate Schools of Planning, Milwaukee, Oct 18-22.
- Abstract reviewer, Environmental Planning track
- Moderator, discussant: “Understanding Urban and Regional Settlement Patterns through
Landscape Ecology Concepts and Metrics” panel
2006 Conference of the Association of the Collegiate Schools of Planning, Fort Worth, Nov 9-12
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- Abstract reviewer, Environmental Planning track
- Moderator, discussant: “Taking Care of Special Interests” panel
2005 Member, Community Workgroup for “Iowans Fit For Life” Comprehensive State Plan
Conference of the Association of the Collegiate Schools of Planning, Kansas City, Oct. 26-29
- Abstract reviewer, Environmental Planning track
- Moderator, discussant: “Assessing Tools and Methods For Environmental Planning” panel
2004 Conference of the Association of the Collegiate Schools of Planning, Portland Oct. 21-24
- Abstract reviewer, Environmental Planning track
- Moderator, discussant: “Natural Hazard Mitigation and Management” panel
OTHER SERVICE
2020 Reviewed James Throgmorton’s book manuscript City Crafting in a Contested Age:
Tales from the Field by a Scholar Turned Mayor
2017 Reviewer of research proposals for University of Nebraska, Lincoln Collaboration
Initiative Grants
Reviewed book proposal: Sustainable Integrated Urban and Rural Development for
Springer, June 2017.
Urban Planning activity about biodiversity in cities, Lincoln Elementary School, Iowa
City, March 2017.
2014 External reviewer, Promotion and Tenure case, Urban / Regional Studies and Planning
Program of the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, Virginia
Commonwealth University
2011- present Reviewer for proposals submitted to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada.
2010-2013 Reviewer for proposals submitted to the French Agency for Food, Environmental and
Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES, Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de
l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du Travail, ex. AFSSET, Agence Nationale de
Sécurité Sanitaire).
2007-present Reviewer for National Science Foundation proposals
2010 Member of the Item Writers Task Force that developed the AICP Advanced Specialty
Certification in Environmental Planning for the American Planning Association,
Washington, DC, Jan 21-24.
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PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
- Planning Accreditation Board
- American Collegiate Schools of Planning
Governing Board Task Force on Student Enrollments and STEM CIP Codes
Global Planning Educator's Interest Group (GPEIG)
Faculty Women in Interest Group (FWIG)
- American Population Association
- International Union for the Scientific Study of Population
- American Association of University Professors
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS
2018-present Willowwind School Board of trustees, Member
Willowwind School Foundation, Member
Iowa City Tree Committee, Member
2016-present Iowa Pollinators, Member and Co-treasurer
2014-present Sustainable Iowa Land Trust (SILT), Advisor
2016-2018 Johnson County, Iowa, Comprehensive Plan Committee. Elected member
2014-2016 Arts Iowa City, Artifactory projects, Advisor
Ecopolis Iowa City, Member
Iowa City Biodiversity working group, Member
2013-2016 IC Design working group, Member
2011-2018 Iowa City Parks and Recreations Commission, Commissioner
2008-2012 Johnson County Local Food Alliance, Board member
MAJOR DIVERSITY, EQUITY and JUSTICE TRAINING
Academics for Black Survival and Wellness. Aug. 2020. 7 daylong workshops organized primarily by
Black counseling psychologists, primarily at the University of Florida,
https://www.academics4blacklives.com/.