"The Role of the University as Urban Developers"
Lecture by Dr. David Perry
David C. Perry currently serves as Director of the Great Cities Institute and Professor of Urban Planning and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He formerly served as interim dean of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs from September 2000 to June 2002.
The Great Cities Institute is a University-wide, transdisciplinary research center committed to building community-university partnerships that apply basic research to the great cities of the world.
Author of eight books and over 150 articles, book chapters and reports on urban policy, political economy and public infrastructure, Perry is an equally experienced policy practitioner having served on numerous public boards, commissions and research advisory panels. In Chicago, he is a member of the Mayor's Zoning Reform Commission and has co-chaired the City of Chicago's Housing Forum on Information Infrastructure. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute's Chicago Public Policy Committee and the Global Chicago Committee of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations.
In the Media:
March 8, 2008: The Columbian: Colleges majoring in urban renewal