The School of Landscape Architecture and Planning Faculty Areas of Expertise

The School of Landscape Architecture and Planning's precedent-setting faculty have a wide array of research and practice areas of expertise.

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Arlie Adkins

Arlie Adkins

Associate Professor of Urban Planning
Program Chair, MS Urban Planning Program
Chair, Council of Faculty Members
Areas of Expertise
  • Affordable housing
  • Health and safety disparities
  • Transportation
  • Walkability
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Nataliya Apanovich

Lecturer in Sustainable Built Environments
Areas of Expertise
  • Food systems
  • Intersection of food and energy security
  • The role of culture in people's livelihoods
Jonathan Bean

Jonathan Bean

Associate Professor of Architecture, Sustainable Built Environments and Marketing
Faculty Advisor, Master of Science in Architecture Sustainable Market Transformation Concentration
CUES Distinguished Fellow
Areas of Expertise
  • Building science and market transformation
  • Home and Homebuilding
  • Social Science
  • Taste and consumer culture theory
Sandra Bernal

Sandra Bernal Cordova

Lecturer
UArizona Hispanic Serving Institution Fellow
Areas of Expertise
  • Arid lands with emphasis in the built environment and health due to climate change
  • Cultural implications of sustainability
  • Environmental impacts of education
Brian Bidolli

Brian Bidolli

Lecturer in Real Estate Development and Urban Planning
Areas of Expertise
  • Business and finance
  • Real estate development
  • Smart cities
  • Transportation
Kelly Cederberg

Kelly Cederberg

Adjunct Lecturer in Landscape Architecture
Pronouns:
she, her, hers
Areas of Expertise
  • Design thinking
  • Landscape design and site analysis
  • Parks and public spaces
  • Urban design

Gina Chorover

Senior Lecturer in Planning and Landscape Architecture
Chair, Heritage Conservation Certificate Program
Areas of Expertise
  • Cities and placemaking
  • Cultural and historic landscapes
  • Historic preservation documentation programs
  • History and sociology of public space
Jonathan Jae-an Crisman

Jonathan Jae-an Crisman

Affiliated Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning
Assistant Professor of Public and Applied Humanities
Areas of Expertise
  • Cultural policy
  • Participation
  • Placemaking
  • Urban design
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Kristina Currans

Associate Professor of Urban Planning
Areas of Expertise
  • E-scooters
  • Land development
  • Off-street parking
  • Transportation
  • Transportation Impact Analyses/Studies
  • Travel Behavior
Kersu Dalal

Kersu Dalal

Lecturer in Sustainable Built Environments
Areas of Expertise
  • Campus planning
  • Mixed-use development
  • Regional planning
  • Urban design
Kirk Dimond

Kirk Dimond

Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
Areas of Expertise
  • Landscape grading and drainage
  • Landscape performance
  • Renewable energy landscapes
  • Site design and construction
Vera Gates

Vera Gates

Adjunct Lecturer in Landscape Architecture
Areas of Expertise
  • Landscape design
  • Professional practice
Eduardo Guerrero

Eduardo Guerrero

Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Urban Design
Areas of Expertise
  • Affordable housing
  • Architecture
  • Neighborhood redevelopment and planning
  • Urban design

Joey Iuliano

Lecturer in Sustainable Built Environments
Areas of Expertise
  • Active transportation
  • Bicycle planning
  • Science and decision-making
  • Urban planning
Atticus Jaramillo

Atticus Jaramillo

Assistant Professor of Planning and Real Estate Development
Areas of Expertise
  • Housing policy
  • Community development planning

Linus Kafka

Professor of Practice in Planning and Real Estate Law
Areas of Expertise
  • Historic preservation law and policy
  • Real estate law
  • Urban history
  • Zoning and local planning law
Ladd Keith

Ladd Keith

Assistant Professor of Planning and Sustainable Built Environments
Faculty Research Associate, Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy
Areas of Expertise
  • Climate action planning
  • Climate change
  • Extreme heat
  • Urban planning
Kenneth J. Kokroko

Kenneth J. Kokroko

Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture
Deans' Equity and Inclusion Initiative Fellow
Areas of Expertise
  • Community outreach and engagement
  • Community-based participatory planning and design
  • Design theories of landscape infrastructure
  • greenway and urban trail planning and design
Paul Kraft

Paul Kraft

Adjunct Lecturer in Real Estate Development
Areas of Expertise
  • Return on investment analysis for real estate
  • Risk/loan underwriting of commercial real estate
  • Valuation of income properties
Daniel Kuhlmann

Daniel Kuhlmann

Assistant Professor of Real Estate Development and Planning
Areas of Expertise
  • Housing policy
  • Planning
  • Real estate development
Daniel A. Linder

Daniel A. Linder

Lecturer in Real Estate Development
Areas of Expertise
  • Corporate finance and real estate
  • Digital transformation
  • Real estate development
  • Real estate investment

Margaret Livingston

Professor of Landscape Architecture
Areas of Expertise
  • Resilient landscapes for urban microclimates in arid environments
  • Urban wildlife habitat establishment and preservation
  • Water conserving practices in urban environments
James Marian

James Brian Marian

Lecturer in Real Estate Development
Areas of Expertise
  • Commercial real estate sales and brokerage
  • Real estate development
  • Real estate finance and investment
  • Real estate industry ethics
  • Real estate valuation and analysis
Sarah Meggison

Sarah Meggison

Adjunct Lecturer in Urban Planning
Areas of Expertise
  • Development review
  • Project management
  • Public housing development
  • Urban and regional planning
Arthur C. Nelson

Arthur C. Nelson

Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning and Real Estate Development
Areas of Expertise
  • Demographics and the built environment
  • Efficient development patterns
  • Transit-oriented development
  • Urban containment policies and outcomes
Seth Asare Okyere

Seth Asare Okyere

Visiting Assistant Professor of Urban Planning
CAPLA Emerging Faculty Fellow
Areas of Expertise
  • Community resilience planning
  • Equity in everyday urbanisms
  • Global south urbanisms
  • International development planning

Gary Pivo

Professor of Real Estate Development and Urban Planning
Areas of Expertise
  • Sustainable Real Estate
  • Urban planning
  • urban water policy
Nancy Pollock-Ellwand

Nancy Pollock-Ellwand

Dean
Professor of Landscape Architecture
Areas of Expertise
  • Cultural landscapes
  • Heritage conservation
  • Landscape architecture
  • Urban reform history
Erik Schmahl

Erik Schmahl

Lecturer in Landscape Architecture
Pronouns:
he, him, his
Areas of Expertise
  • Garden design
  • Psychogeography
  • Visual communication
Garrett Smith

Garrett Smith

Lecturer in Sustainable Built Environments and Landscape Architecture
Interim Chair, Sustainable Built Environments Program
Areas of Expertise
  • Advanced statistics and research methods
  • Data science
  • Geospatial analysis
  • Recreation ecology
Philip Stoker

Philip Stoker

Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning
Areas of Expertise
  • Geographical information systems (GIS)
  • Inferential statistics
  • Rural and gateway community planning
  • Urban water sustainability
Kenny Wong

Kenny H. Wong

Lecturer in Sustainable Built Environments
Areas of Expertise
  • Affordable housing and housing policy
  • Design research
  • Engaged scholarship
  • Urban humanities
Bo Yang

Bo Yang

Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
Associate Dean for Research
Interim Director, Drachman Institute
Areas of Expertise
  • Community planning and design
  • Green infrastructure
  • Landscape performance
  • Stormwater management
Omar Youssef

Omar Youssef

Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Sustainable Built Environments
MS Arch Faculty Advisor, Design and Energy Conservation Concentration
Areas of Expertise
  • Climate analysis
  • Design and energy conservation
  • Health and wellbeing
  • Technology integration (drones, VR, wearable devices)