University of Southern California
USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Dowell MyersProfessor of Policy, Planning, and Development and SociologyContact Information Phone: (213) 740-7095 Office: VKC 363 LINKS Faculty Profile on Departmental Website |
Education |
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 Ph.D. Urban Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Description of Research |
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Summary Statement of Research Interests |
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| He is a specialist in urban growth and development with expertise as a planner and urban demographer. An advisor to the Bureau of the Census, he has authored the most widely referenced work on census analysis, Analysis with Local Census Data: Portraits of Change (Academic Press, 1992). His program of research has pursued two contributions to the planning field: (1) bringing people back in as the focus of planning success; and (2) understanding planning as a temporal process of developing the future. Recent research projects have focused on the upward mobility of immigrants to Southern California and the many changes they create in the city, as well as on projections of the future impacts of the growing California population. A fellow of the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy and a member of several advisory boards, Dr. Myers has published recent articles in the Journal of the American Planning Association, Demography, American Sociological Review, and Journal of Housing Research. | |
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| (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981) Professor, School of Policy, Planning, and Development: Immigration; ethnic change/demographic diversity and trends; growth management; housing & urban development; real estate market analysis; local census data analysis; urban growth, sprawl & quality of life. | |
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