JOHN D. LANDIS

Department of City and Regional Planning

University of California at Berkeley

Berkeley, CA  94720

   phone:  510-642-1324 (office)

   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

 

II.  ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

        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

    Professional Affiliations

           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).  

      Articles

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.  

     

       Selected Research Reports and Working Papers:  1992-2002

            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.