Urban Planning
Paul Gottlieb
Associate Professor and Extension Specialist
Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics
School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Key topics: Urban sprawl; SmartGrowth; growth management; "growth vs. environment"; regional planning; zoning and local land use policy; property tax reform; differences in economic welfare between suburbs and central cities; regional and city development; agriculture in New Jersey
Paul D. Gottlieb, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. He is also an extension specialist, with college-wide responsibilities related to smart growth,…
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Wolfram Hoefer
Associate Professor
Department of Landscape Architecture
School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Key topics: Adaptive re-use of brownfields as potential elements of the public realm; community outreach in New Jersey (CUES); cultural interpretations of landscapes; cross cultural comparison of brownfield design in North America and Europe; design theory of landscape architecture
Dr. Wolfram Hoefer joined the Department of Landscape Architecture at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey as an Assistant Professor in 2006.
In 1992 he earned a Diploma in Landscape Architecture from the Technische Universität…
James Hughes
University Professor
Heldrich Center for Workforce Development
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Key topics: Demographics and housing, regional and New Jersey economics, community development patterns
James W. Hughes, Ph.D., is a nationally recognized expert who has presented extensive budgetary and economic testimony before New Jersey state legislative committees. He has also provided countless policy briefings on demographics, housing, and…
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Michael Lahr
Research Professor
Rutgers Economic Advisory Service
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy
Key topics: NJ and National Economy, economic development (including incentives), economic modeling techniques, transportation economics
Dr. Michael Lahr serves as the Director of Rutgers Economic Advisory Service (R/ECON™). He is also a Research Professor of Planning and Public Policy at the Edward J. Bloustein School where he teaches a course on Global Analytics and…
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Director
Rutgers University Department of Transportation
Key topics: Pedestrian and bicycle planning and design, traffic calming solutions, parking, parking management, transit solutions.
Jack Molenaar is a transportation planner with more than 22 years of experience in the public and private sectors. At Rutgers, he oversees the university's bus system, which is the second largest in the state, and is responsible for traffic…
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Anton Nelessen
Professor
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Anton C. Nelessen has been teaching Urban Design and professional practice first at Harvard and currently at Rutgers for the past 39 years. He has emerged as one of the nations most respected urban visionaries. He has more than 40 years of…
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Arturo Osorio-Fernandez
Associate Professor
Management and Global Business
Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick
Key topics: Entrepreneurship, (social entrepreneurship, urban entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship & under-served populations, entrepreneurship base socioeconomic development), Managing Growing Ventures, Business Resilience, Management Skills, Socioeconomic renaissance, Urban revitalization, Business & communities, Minority Own Business, Hispanic & Latino minorities
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Michael Smart
Assistant Professor
Urban Planning
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Key topics: Transportation, changing demographics of US cities, decline in driving, public opinion toward mass transportation
Dr. Smart's current research explores the decline in vehicle ownership and use among young adults in the United States and across the developed world, focusing on the extent of generational shifts away from the automobile. Other research…
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