JOHN D. LANDIS
Department of City and Regional Planning
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
e-mail: jlandis@uclink.berkeley.edu
John Landis is
Chair of the City and Regional Planning at the University of California,
Berkeley, where he teaches courses in planning history, housing, project
development, land use planning, and computer mapping. Prof. Landis' recent
research has focused on a wide variety of housing and growth policy issues,
including transportation and land use, housing production and affordable
housing, the environmental impacts of urban growth, and the extent and causes of
urban sprawl. Prof. Landis’
article, "Imagining Land Use Futures," won the 1995 award for best feature
article in the Journal of the American Planning Association.
I. EDUCATION
University
of California, Berkeley. Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning (1983).
Dissertation: Are Urban Housing
Markets Competitive?
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. B.S. in Civil Engineering
(1978). Areas of Concentration:
Transportation planning and systems analysis
Regular Academic
Appointments and Positions
Department Chair (January
2002-present); Professor (August 1999-present); Associate Professor
(March 1993-July 1999); Assistant Professor (January
1987-February 1993), Department of City and Regional Planning, University of
California at Berkeley (March 1993-Present). Teaching areas: Housing policy and finance, planning
methods, urban and public economics, computer applications and geographic
information systems, real estate development and finance, planning history.
Assistant Professor, Graduate
Program in City Planning, Georgia Institute of Technology (January 1985 - December 1986).
Assistant Professor, Graduate Program in Community Planning and
Area Development, University of Rhode Island (January 1983 - December 1984).
Recent
Professional Development Courses
Basic Real Estate Development (principal instructor). Two-day
introductory course sponsored by the Urban Land Institute. Offered twice yearly
in 1996-2001.
Techniques of Real Estate Market Analysis (course coordinator and
principal instructor). Four-day course sponsored by the Urban Land Institute.
Offered annually from 1988 to 2001.
III. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Lambda Alpha Land Economics Society (currently inactive)
Urban Land Institute (Full Member and Fellow 1992-98)
American Planning Association
U.C. Berkeley Research Affiliations
Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economic
Institute
for Urban and Regional Development
U.C. Transportation Center
Reviewer
Editorial Board, URISA Journal, 1990-91
Regular
reviewer for Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of Planning Education and
Research, Housing Policy Debate.
Occasional reviewer for the AREUEA Journal, Applied Geography, Land
Economics and Urban Studies, Environment & Planning.
IV. PUBLICATIONS
Books
and Manuscripts
50 Years of the Department of City and Regional Planning
at UC Berkeley. (co-editor with Skip Lowney). Berkeley: Department of
City and Regional Planning
Desktop-Mapping for Planning and Strategic Decision-making. 1989. (with
Roberto Laserna). San Jose: Strategic Mapping Corporation.
Book
Chapters
Characterizing Urban Land Capacity: Alternative Approaches and Methodologies. 2002. in Gerrit Knaap, ed., Land Market Monitoring for Urban Growth Management. Cambridge: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
CUF, CUF II, and CURBA: A Family of Spatially-Explicit Urban Growth and Land Use Policy Simulation Models. 2001. Richard Brail and Richard Klosterman, eds., Planning Support Systems. Redlands: ESRI Press.
Using GIS to Improve Urban Activity and Forecasting Models: Three Examples. (with Ming Zhang). 2000.
in Stewart Fotheringham and Michael Wegner, eds., Spatial Models and GIS: New
Potential and New Models. London: Taylor-Francis.
Housing Policy and Planning (with Richard Legates). 2000. in Frank
So, ed. Principles and Practices of Urban Planning. Washington, D.C.:
International City Managers Association.
An Overview of GIS Technology and Applications in Real Estate.
1998. GIS in Real Estate. Gilbert Castle, III, editor. Chicago: The
Appraisal Institute.
Development Impacts of Urban Transport (with Robert Cervero). 1995.
in David Bannister, ed. Transport and Urban Development. London: Chapman
and Hall.
GIS Capabilities, Uses, and Organizational Issues." 1993. Profiting from a
Geographic Information System.
Gilbert Castle, III, editor. GIS World Publications.
Making Sense of California's Regional Growth Management Initiatives."
1993. California Policy
Choices: 1992. John Kirlin and Donald Winkler, editors.
Sacramento: University of Southern
California Press. (Volume 8).
Public-Private Development: Techniques of Project Assessment. 1989.
Financing Growth and Development. Washington, D.C.: Government Finance
Officers Association. 1989.
The Southern California Growth War of 1988. 1989. (with Cynthia Kroll).
in California Policy Choices: 1989, John and Anne Kirlin, editors.
Sacramento, CA: University of
Southern California Press. (Vol. 5).
Fast and Furious, but Different? High-Tech Housing Markets (with Vicki
Elmer). 2002 Housing Policy
Debate. 13:2 .
Transportation as a Stimulus of Welfare-to-Work: Private vs. Public Mobility (with Juan
Sandoval and Robert Cervero). 2002.
Journal of Planning Education and Research 22:1 (Fall).
Middle-aged Sprawl: BART
and Urban Development (with Robert Cervero) 1998. Access 14 (Spring).
Development and Pilot Application of the California Urban and
Biodiversity Analysis Model. (with Juan Pablo Monzon, Michael Reilly, and Chris
Cogan). forthcoming in Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems.
The Second Generation of the California Urban Futures Model: Parts I,
II, and III (with Ming Zhang). 1998. Environment and Planning B: Planning and
Design. 25: 657-666, 795-824.
Simulating Highway and Transit Effects. 1998. Access 12. (Spring).
Twenty Years of BART:
Land Use and Development Impacts (with Robert Cervero). 1996.
Transportation Research. 31(4):309-333.
Building Housing for Those Who Can Least Afford It. 1996. (with E.
Toby Morris and Michael Smith-Heimer). Urban Land. (October).
A Quarter-Century of Environmental Regulation and Growth Control in
California. 1996. (with Paul Sedway). Urban Land. (October).
The
Transportation-Land Use Connection Still Matters. 1995. (with Robert Cervero)
Access 7. [Reprinted in Transportation Research Record]
Imagining Land Use Futures:
Applying the California Urban Futures Model. 1995. Journal of the
American Planning Association. (Fall)
[Winner of the Best Article Award for 1995.]
California Housing Markets in the 1990s. 1994. (with Michael Smith-Heimer
and Subhrajit Guhathakurta)
Mortgage Banking. (September).
Four Productivity-raising Business Geographics Applications. 1994. (with
Ming Zhang). Business Geographics. 2:4 (August).
Future Tense. 1994. Planning. 60:2. {non-refereed}
The California Urban Futures Model:
A New Generation of Metropolitan Simulation Model. 1994. Environment
and Planning B: Planning and Design.
Does Growth Control Work?
A New Assessment. 1992. Journal of the American Planning
Association. 58:4.
Analyzing Transit Joint Development Using Quasi-Experimental Research
Design. 1992. (with Robert Cervero). Transportation Research.
Transit Joint Development: The U.S. Experience. 1992. (with Robert
Cervero and Peter Hall). Environment and Planning D: Policy
Analysis.
Micro-computer-Based GIS Systems: An Update. 1990. Journal of the
American Planning Association: 55:2 (Summer).
The Loma Prieta Earthquake: Focus on Small Business. 1990. (with Cynthia
Kroll and Qing Shen) Berkeley
Planning Journal.
Microcomputer-based Geographical Information Systems for Local
Planning: A Review and Evaluation.
1989. (with Jonathan Levine). Journal of the American Planning
Association: 55:2 (Spring). [Reprinted in A Planners Review of PC Software
and Technology, Planning Advisory Service Report 414-415: American Planning Association.
1989.]
The Future of America's Central Cities. 1988. Built Environment.
13:4.
Microcomputers in Planning:
History, Problems, Prospects. 1988. (with Richard Klosterman).
Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design. 15.
The Case
Against Statistics as Methods. 1988. Berkeley Planning Journal.
3:2.
An Empirical Basis for National Urban Policy. 1987. Urban Studies.
24.
Desktop Mapping,
Planning (June 1986), vol. 52; no. 6.
Planners Guide to Places Rated Almanac. 1988. (with David
Sawicki). Journal of the American Planning Association. 54:3.
(Summer).
How Cities Expand: Does
State Law Make a Difference. 1986. (with Thomas Galloway). Growth and
Change. 17:4. (October).
Land Regulation and the Price of New Housing. 1986. Journal of the
American Planning Association. 52:1. (Winter).
Electronic Spreadsheets in Planning: The Case of Shiftshare Analysis.
1985. Journal of the American Planning Association. 51: 2. (Spring).
Land Use Controls and Housing Costs: An Examination of San Francisco
Bay Area Communities. 1982. (with David Dowall). Journal of the American Real
Estate and Urban Economics Association. (Summer).
Book Reviews
Scarcity by Design: The
Legacy of New York City's Housing Policies, by Peter D. Salins and Gerard C.S.
Mildner. Journal of the American Planning Association. 1994.
Basic Microcomputer Programs for Urban Analysis and Planning by John
Ottensman, Journal of Planning
Education and Research (Winter 1986), vol. 5; no. 2.
Growth Management Revisited: A Reassessment of its
Efficacy, Price Effects and Impacts on Metropolitan Growth Patterns (with
Lan Deng and Michael Reilly). 2002.
University of California, Berkeley: Institute of Urban and Regional
Development Working Paper 2002-02.
Pay to Play: Residential Development Fees in California. California Department of Housing and Community Development. October 2001.
Forecasting & Mitigating Future Urban Encroachment Adjacent
to California Military Installations: A Spatial Approach
(with Michael Reilly, Robert Twiss,
Howard Foster, and Patricia Frontiera) 2001. University of California, Berkeley: Institute of Urban and Regional
Development Working Paper 2001-11
Estimating the Housing Infill
Capacity of the Bay Area (with Juan Onesimo Sandoval).
2001.
University of California,
Berkeley: Institute of Urban and
Regional Development Working Paper 2000-06.
Raising the Roof: California Housing Opportunities and Constraints, 1997-2020. California Department of Housing and Community Development. May 2000.
The California Urban and Biodiversity Analysis Model: Theory,
Development, and Pilot Applications. (with
Michael Reilly, Juan Pablo Monzon, and Chris Cogan). Final Report to the
National Biological Service. July 1998.
The Second Generation of the CUF II Model (with Ming Zhang and Matthew Zook). UC Transportation Center.
June 1998.
Residential Earthquake Recovery: Improving California's Post-Disaster
Rebuilding Policies and Programs. (with Mary
Comerio and Catherine Firpo). California Policy Seminar. March 1997.
No Vacancy: How to Increase the Supply and Reduce
the Cost of Rental Housing in Silicon Valley. Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics. June 1996.
Rail Transit Investments, Real Estate Values, and Land Use
Change: A Comparative Analysis of
Five California Rail Transit Systems. (with
Subrajit Guhathakurta, Ming Zhang, and William Huang). California Department of
Transportation. June 1995.
Fixing CEQA: Options and
Opportunities for Reforming the California Environmental Quality Act.
(with Robert Olshansky, William Huang, and
Rolf Pendall).California Policy Seminar. August 1995.
How
Shall We Grow? Alternative Futures
for the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. California Policy Seminar. April 1993.
Do Growth Controls Work?
California Policy Seminar. February
1992.