Guest Lecture: “Urban Sustainability – why it is important and how it can be achieved” – Dr. Jerry Anthony | Univerzitet u Beogradu

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Dr. Jerry Anthony, associate professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Iowa, Iowa, The United States of America (USA)

The Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade invites all interested to the lecture: “Urban Sustainability – why it is important and how it can be achieved” – Dr. Jerry Anthony, associate professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Iowa, Iowa, The United States of America (USA)

The guest lecture will be held on Friday, February 23rd 2018 at 3:00 pm, at the amphitheater of the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade, as a part of undergraduate studies curriculum activities fot the courses OASA-24071 Sustainable Urban Communities and OASA-24042 Traffic and Social Infrastructure.

Bio

Dr. Jerry Anthony is global change-maker.

In 2003, he co-founded the Housing Trust Fund of Johnson County, a non-profit organization that (with an operating budget of $1.2 million in FY2018) funds creation of new affordable housing in Johnson County, Iowa, USA.

In 2012, he co-founded the World Institute of Sustainable Development in Kochi, India.

He is a tenured associate professor of Urban and regional planning at the University of Iowa, where he has been employed since earning his Ph.D. from Florida State University in 2000.

He has been named an Excellent Educator by the American Planning Association, one of only two professors ever to be bestowed this recognition in the state of Iowa.

His publications are widely read, with a 2004 paper titled “The Effects of Florida’s Growth Management Act on Housing Affordability” named one of the top 10 most influential papers published in the prestigious Journal of the American Planning Association in 25 years.

His research has been funded by numerous US and international agencies, including The Brookings Institution and the MacArthur Foundation.

He teaches a study abroad course in the University of Iowa’s internationally decorated India Winterim program, called “2017-2018 India Winterim Courses: Sustainable Development: The Kerala Experience”. This course has had a transformative impact on scores of graduate and undergraduate students from over 15 North American universities since 2009.

From 2015 onwards, he has been a visiting scholar at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, advising and teaching students from over 20 Asian and Scandinavian countries.

Refereed articles:
Anthony, Jerry. 2017. State Growth Management and Urban Sprawl Reduction: Lessons from Florida, Journal of Urban Planning and Development, Vol. 143, Issue 4 (December 2017)

Khandelwal, Meena, Matthew E. Hill, Paul Greenough, Jerry Anthony, Misha Quill, Marc Linderman, and H.S. Udaykumar. 2017. Why Have Improved Cook-stove Initiatives in India Failed? World Development 92: 13–27.

Anthony, Jerry. 2016. Housing price effects of growth regulations: a concise taxonomy. International Journal of Housing Policy.

Greenlee, Andrew, Mary Edwards & Jerry Anthony. 2015. Planning Skills: An Examination of Supply and Local Government Demand. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 35(2): 161-173.

Anthony, Jerry. 2008. Exploring causes of smart growth policy adoption: Many challenges persist. Social Sciences Quarterly, 89(3): 1371-1377

Anthony, Jerry. 2007. Achieving the UN’s Millennium Development goal: Problems and prospects in a medium-sized Indian city. Journal of the American Planning Association, 73(2):223-237.

Anthony, Jerry, and David Forkenbrock. 2006. Land Use Law in Planning: Practice and Pedagogy. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 26(1): 80-91.

Anthony, Jerry. 2006. State Growth Management and Housing Prices. Social Science Quarterly 87(1):122-141.

Anthony, Jerry. 2005. Family Self-sufficiency programs: Program benefits and factors affecting participants’ success. Urban Affairs Review 41(1): 65-92.

Anthony, Jerry. 2004. Do State Growth Management Regulations Reduce Sprawl? Urban Affairs Review 39 (3): 376-397.

Anthony, Jerry. 2003. The effects of Florida’s Growth Management Act on Housing Affordability. Journal of the American Planning Association 69(3): 282-295.

Book chapters
Anthony, Jerry. 2011. Home Burdens: The High Cost of Homeownership. Chapter 4 in Katherine Porter (ed). Broke: How Debt Bankrupts the Middle Class. Stanford University Press.

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