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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: lucie-laurian@uiowa.edu

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/.