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Pierre Clavel

Pierre Clavel

title

Professor

department

City & Regional Planning

address

219 West Sibley Hall

phone

(607) 255-6212

email

pc29@cornell.edu
Pierre Clavel studied planning at the University of North Carolina, practiced with Blair and Stein Associates in New England and Upstate NY, and then did a Ph.D. at Cornell working with Barclay Jones, Alan Altshuler, and others. His first teaching job was at the University of Puerto Rico. Later, Clavel, Cornell's faculty, and others introduced ideas from this background to Cornell's curriculum.

His research and writing has been on planning, administration, and politics with particular application to regionalism and nationalism in Appalachia and Wales and then applied to "progressive cities" like Hartford, Cleveland, Berkeley, Santa Monica, Burlington VT, Chicago, and Boston; and community development in Youngstown, OH and Maine.

Current projects include (with Ken Reardon) an archived collection and webpages on Progressive Cities and Neighborhood Planning. Clavel was director of Cornell's Progressive Planning Summer Program from 1979 to 1983, several times Director of Graduate Studies, and was chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning from 2001 to 2004.

education

  • B.A., Haverford College, 1957
  • M.R.P., University of North Carolina, 1959
  • Ph.D., Cornell University, 1966

publications

Professor Clavel has published the following from his work:

  • Urban and Regional Planning in an Age of Austerity (ed., with William Goldsmith and John Forester, 1980) "Opposition Planning in Wales and Appalachia" (1983)
  • "The Progressive City" (1986)
  • "Harold Washington and the Neighborhoods" (ed., with Wim Wiewel, 1990)
  • "Reinventing Cities: Equity Planners Tell Their Stories" (with Norman Krumholz, 1994).
He is currently writing "The Progressive City in the United States, 1969-2007."

courses

  • American Planning History
  • Community Development Seminar

research

Professor Clavel's areas of interest are:
  • Politics of Planning
  • Administration
  • Community economic development.
He also has been involved in research for the following: Administration of the “Progressive Cities and Neighborhood Planning” project; gathered additions to the collection in Olin-Kroch Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections; creation and updating of webpages; substantial acquisitions in 2007-08 with delivery of as many as 20 boxes (indexed) to RMC; contact with scholars in the U.S., U.K., and South Africa.

exhibitions

  • Urban Affairs Association (April 2007)
  • Research Committee of the International Sociological Society (Vancouver, August 2007)
  • Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (Milwaukee, October 2007)

 

Professor Clavel also serves on the Editorial Board for Progressive Planning, is a member of the Paul Davidoff Award Committee and Chair of the Barclay Gibbs Jones Dissertation Award Committee.