Join John Landis, Emeritus Professor of City and Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design, for a talk on the new edited collection, Megaprojects for Megacities, and other recent publications.
John Landis is Emeritus Professor of City and Regional Planning at the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania where he served as City Planning department chair from 2008 to 2017. John’s current research focuses on the relationships between planning practice, urban entrepreneurship and innovation, and successful urban development outcomes. In addition to Megaprojects for Megacities, John’s recent publications include: “Minority Travel Disparities and Residential Segregation: Evidence from the 2017 National Household Travel Survey” (Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. 2022); “Fifty Years of Local Growth Management in America” (Progress in Planning, 2021); and “Do Restrictive Land Use Regulations Make Housing More Expensive Everywhere?” (with Vincent Reina, Economic Development Quarterly, 2021). Prior to joining the Penn faculty in 2007, John served on the planning faculties of the University of California-Berkeley, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Rhode Island.
Providing expert commentary on urban topics and highlighting Penn IUR's research in the context of pressing urban issues.
