Community MATTEers: Service-Learning in Engaged Design and Planning (Earthscan Tools for Community Planning) - Tapa blanda

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Mallika Bose is Associate Professor of landscape architecture at Penn State University, USA. She was the Director of the Hamer Center for Community Design from 2008 to 2012. Motivated by her interest in issues of equity/justice and how social structures are spatially embedded, she pursues research on built environment and active living/healthy eating, public scholarship and community-engaged design and planning.

Paula Horrigan is Associate Professor of landscape architecture at Cornell University, USA. Her teaching and research focus on placemaking, participatory design, and the pedagogies and practices of civic engagement that encourage university–community reciprocity and enable community-based problem solving. She leads the Rust to Green NY Action Research Project whereby university and community partners work together on fostering a narrative of resilience and sustainability in New York’s Rust Belt.

Cheryl Doble is Associate Professor Emeritus in the department of landscape architecture at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York, USA. She is the founding director of the college’s Center for Community Design Research, which facilitates the development of academic/community partnerships that support collaborative community-based design and research projects.

Sigmund C. Shipp is Associate Professor in the department of urban affairs and planning at Hunter College, New York, USA. He is the director of the undergraduate urban studies program. His research has involved a study of urban renewal, worker-owned cooperatives, and the Black church and college community development corporations. His recent research has focused on White poverty in America.