Professor Hack teaches, practices, and studies large-scale physical planning and urban design. He is co-author of the third edition of Site Planning and Lessons from Local Experiences, as well as numerous articles and chapters on the spatial environment of cities. Recently he has been one of the principal investigators in an international comparative study of changes in city form over the last forty years in response to the globalization of their economies, widespread motorization, and new communications technologies.

Professor Hack has prepared plans for over thirty cities in the United States and abroad, including the redevelopment plan for the Prudential Center in Boston, the West Side Waterfront plan in New York City, and the new Metropolitan Plan for Bangkok, Thailand. He has also worked with smaller communities on urban design issues by preparing downtown development guidelines for the center of Portland, Maine; design review manuals for Hendersonville and Germantown, Tennessee; and guidelines for the development of the entrance corridors and downtown of Charlottesville, Virginia. Earlier in his career, Professor Hack directed the Canadian government's housing and urban development research and demonstration programs, initiating several large neighborhood demonstration projects and the redevelopment of urban waterfronts in a number of Canadian cities. He has also served as an urban design consultant for projects in Japan, Taiwan and Saudi Arabia.

Dean Hack has served on the executive committee of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning and the Planning Accreditation Board. He is a fellow of the Urban Land Institute and a design advisor for the planned National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.

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Professor Birch has published widely in two fields, the history of planning and contemporary planning and housing. Her articles have appeared in such publications as the Journal of Urban History, Journal of Planning Education and Research, Journal of the American Planning Association and Planning magazine. Her book, The Unsheltered Woman: Housing in the Eighties is a collection of essays generated by a Ford Foundation sponsored research project undertaken with Donna E. Shalala. She served as an Associate Editor of the Encyclopedia of New York City, edited by Kenneth T. Jackson. She is currently the editor of the Urban Studies and Planning section of the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Professor Birch has lectured in the United States and abroad on city planning matters. She has been a Visiting Scholar at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario (1997), a Foreign Scholar at the University of Hong Kong (1995), and a Visiting Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (1994).

Professor Birch served as president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, co-edited the Journal of the American Planning Association, and was president of the Society of American City and Regional Planning History. From 1990 through 1995, Dr. Birch was a member of the New York City Planning Commission. In 1994, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning gave her the Margarita McCoy Award "in recognition of her outstanding contribution to furthering the advancement of women in the planning academy." She is currently engaged in research on the rise of downtown housing funded by the Fannie Mae Foundation and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

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Tom Daniels is a Full Professor who joins Professor Keene in directing the concentration in Environmental Planning and Growth Management. Tom's main areas of interest are farmland preservation, growth management, and connection between land use and water quality. Tom has taught at SUNY-Albany, Kansas State University, and Iowa State University. He has served on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of the American Planning Association, and in 2002 he was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

Tom is the author of When City and Country Collide: Managing Growth in the Metropolitan Fringe (1999), and co-author of Holding Our Ground: Protecting America's Farmland (1997) and The Small Town Planning Handbook (2003), published by the American Planning Association.

Tom often serves as a consultant to state and local governments and land trusts. He lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania where for nine years he managed the county's nationally-recognized farmland preservation program.

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Professor Keene’s teaching and research interests focus on the legal aspects of city and regional planning, land development regulation, environmental planning and law, legal and policy issues relating to brownfield remediation, and management of urban growth. He is the co-author of Saving American Farmland: What Works?; Guiding Growth: A Primer on Growth Management for Pennsylvania Municipalities; The Protection of Farmland: A Reference Guidebook for State and Local Governments; and Untaxing Open Space: An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Differential Assessment of Farms and Open Space, along with numerous articles and reports. He recently co-authored a study with Nancy L. Mohr, Visions of Landscapes: A Study of Sprawl, Values in Conflict, and the Need for Public Persuasion, which examined public attitudes toward alternative ways of shaping suburban land development.

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Professor Mandelbaum teaches courses in the fields of planning theory, communication policy and planning, international comparative planning, community design, and urban history. He is primarily interested in the formation and development of human communities, the moral orders which shape these communities and the flows of individuals and information through them. Currently he is involved in research on two complementary themes: planning intelligence and the democratization of access to knowledge.

Dr. Mandelbaum is editor of the Gordon and Breach international series of case studies under the title Cities and Regions: Planning, Policy and Management. The first volume, on Battery Park City, was published in 1997; the second, on the suburban expansion of Sydney, Australia, became available in the spring of 1999. Titles on planning in Israel, Warsaw, and Rome are forthcoming. He is the editor of Explorations in Planning Theory and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Planning Education, Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, The Responsive Community, Journal of Planning Literature, and Town Planning Review. In recent years he has devoted a good deal of effort to the affairs of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. Currently he is chair of the Conference Committee.

Professor Mandelbaum's latest book, Open Moral Communities, which deals with a communitarian sensibility and the ways in which policy and planning arguments are set within myths of community, was published by MIT Press in the spring of 2000.

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Professor Putman's teaching and research focus on the use of quantitative methods to understand metropolitan transportation and land use interactions and to assist in the forecasting, design and evaluation of regional land use and transportation policies. He is director of the University of Pennsylvania's Urban Simulation Laboratory that maintains a large collection of urban and regional computer simulation models and associated software for use by students, faculty and the community at large. Professor Putman's writings include Integrated Urban Models 2: New Research and Applications of Optimization and Dynamics, Integrated Urban Models: Policy Analysis of Transportation and Land Use, and Urban Residential Location Models.

Professor Putman has spent nearly thirty years attempting to improve planning practice through the use of quantitative methods and computer simulations. He has maintained an active role in the application of these techniques to planning practice, and his consulting firm has an international reputation for integrated transportation and land use model development and application. Dr. Putman's software is currently licensed by sixteen major metropolitan planning agencies, including those of eight out of the ten largest American cities. At the present time, more than one-third of the U.S. population lives in an area in which Professor Putman's models have been used.

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Professor Tomazinis teaches courses in transportation, infrastructure and international planning. Since 1981, he has run the University of Pennsylvania TRANSLAB (Transportation Planning Studies Laboratory). He is the author of two books, Productivity, Efficiency and Quality in Urban Transportation Systems and Efficiency Indicators of Urban Public Transportation Systems.

Professor Tomazinis has practiced extensively in the United States and abroad. Between 1991 and 1993, he served as the chairman of a task force appointed by the Pennsylvania Joint Commission for Efficiency of State Government Services to investigate and report on increasing efficiency and privatization in state government operations. During the Carter administration, he was an advisor to the Office of Urban Affairs and a member of the Camp David Technical Mission on Energy to Egypt immediately following the Camp David accords. Professor Tomazinis received a United Nations appointment to advise the Beijing Design Planning Institute on transportation planning. He designed Athens and Lisbon airports and transportation systems in Islamabad, Pakistan and Skopje, Yugoslavia. Dr. Tomazinis has also advised the governments of Iran, India, and Taiwan on transportation and development issues.

In May 1999, Professor Tomazinis received the University of Pennsylvania's G. Holmes Perkins Award for Distinguished Teaching. He is currently involved in the design and building of Technopolis, a model city of science to be located in Thrace, Greece.

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Professor Wong teaches local economic development, information technology applications, urban economics, program and policy evaluation, and planning methods. He is conducting multiple research projects in community information networks, enterprise and empowerment zones, neighborhood transition and stability, and community-university partnership. He also serves as the Director of the Philadelphia Data Consortium and leads the InfoResource West Philadelphia project team that hires over ten master's and doctoral planning students. His other research and professional interests include public leasehold systems, land development theories, and waterfront development in Hong Kong.

His recent publications include "Spatial Organization of Urban Places" (in the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences), "Fragmentation and Economic Development" (in Solving Urban Problems in Areas Characterized by Fragmentation and Divisiveness), and "Creating a positive future for a minority community," (Vol. 24, Journal of Urban Affairs).

In 1998, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning named Professor Wong's doctoral dissertation, "Local Enterprise Zone Program and Economic Development Planning: A Case Study of California and Four Mid-Atlantic States" the best planning dissertation in North America.

Professor Wong came to Penn from Florida International University in Miami, where he taught urban studies from 1996 to 1998. Before that, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Southern California. In recent years, he was the Associate Director of the Joint Center for Environmental and Urban Problems in South Florida, Interim Director of the FIU's Community Outreach Partnership Center Program, and Director of Research and Data Services of the FIU's Metropolitan Center. In 1999, he was an advisor to the Empowerment Trust, Inc. of Miami.

Prior to his doctoral pursuit, Professor Wong worked as a practicing planner (certified by the British Royal Town Planning Institute) in Hong Kong. His responsibility included harbor reclamation consultant studies, urban renewal, long-range infrastructure planning, and zoning process.

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Professor Sagalyn's teaching focus is on real estate finance. She is most widely known for her research on public/private development; her most recent book, Times Square Roulette: Remaking the City Icon (MIT Press, 2001) has just been released to bookstores.

She was most recently the Earle W. Kazis and Benjamin Schore Director of the MBA Real Estate Program and the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate at Columbia University Graduate School of Business. An expert in real estate finance, Professor Sagalyn is a director of United Dominion Realty Trust (NYSE: UDR) and Capital Trust (NYSE: CT) (and chair of the audit committee for both boards), as well as a board member of J.P. Morgan U.S. Real Estate Income and Growth Fund and The Retail Initiative, a subsidiary of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC).

She also recently served on the New York City [Board of Education] Chancellor's Commission on the Capital Plan. Her current research interests include the politics of rebuilding the World Trade Center site and the politica economy of preservation.

Jonathan Barnett is an architect and planner, educator, and author of numerous books and articles on the theory and practice of city design.

He has been an urban design advisor to many U.S. cities, including long-term associations with Charleston, S.C., Cleveland, Kansas City, Miami, Norfolk, and Pittsburgh, and has also been an advisor to several U.S. Government agencies including the U.S. General Services Administration, the National Park Service, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Capitol Planning Commission.

His work on large-scale urban development and redevelopment projects includes the reuse plans for the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, the Treasure Island Naval Station in San Francisco, and for the former air force base in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and re-use plans for former railway yards in Philadelphia and Sacramento, California. He has also been the urban designer for studies of the Ocean View Avenue corridor in Norfolk, the Highway 111 corridor plan for Indian Wells, California, The Trinity River Corridor in Dallas, the Uptown Houston District, and the Euclid Avenue Corridor in Cleveland.

His work on suburban development includes design prototypes for the Third Regional Plan for the New York City Metropolitan Area, the urban design for Daniel Island, a 4500 acre planned community near Charleston, S.C., and the master plans for the Village of Irvington, New York, Wildwood, Missouri, and Brookfield, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee.

Jonathan Barnett is also a professor of practice in city and regional planning at the University of Pennsylvania; he was formerly professor of architecture and founder of the Graduate Program in Urban Design at the City College of New York, and has been the William Henry Bishop visiting professor at Yale, the Eschweiler Professor at the University of Wisconsin, the Kea Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland, and the Sam Gibbons Eminent Scholar at the University of South Florida.

Books about Urban Design written by Jonathan Barnett include Urban Design as Public Policy, Introduction to Urban Design, The Elusive City: Five Centuries of Design, Ambition, and Miscalculation, and The Fractured Metropolis: Improving the New City, Restoring the Old City, Reshaping the Region.

A Magna cum Laude graduate of Yale, Mr. Barnett also holds an M.A. degree from the University of Cambridge and an M. Arch. from Yale. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners.

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