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Faculty

PhD Program

Stephen Baxter Professor 

BA, Dartmouth; B.Arch., Florida
MRP, Ph.D., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Office:  204 New East
Phone:  (919) 962-5012
Fax:      (919) 962-5206
Email:   dgod@email.unc.edu

Courses

Dr. Godschalk teaches courses on dispute resolution and site and project planning.

Research and Practice

Godschalk's experience ranges from faculty member to consultant to city planning director. He has been a member of the North Carolina Commission to Address Smart Growth, Growth Management and Development Issues. He has edited the Journal of the American Institute of Planners, and served on the boards of Directors of the American Planning Association, and the Association of Collgiate Schools of Planning as well as, the Chapel Hill Town Council, and the North Carolina Legislative Study Commission on Comprehensive Planning.

A registered architect as well as planner, he has been a frequent expert witness in legal cases challenging comprehensive plans. His research interests include smart growth, hazard mitigation, coastal planning, consensus-building, and distance learning. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners.

Selected publications

• "Learning at a Distance: Technology Impacts on Planning Education," Journal of Planning Education and Research 20:4, Summer 2001. (with L. Lacey)
  
  
• "Montgomery County, Maryland--A Pioneer in Land Supply Monitoring," in Minority Land Supply and Capacity with Parcel-Based GIS, New York: Wiley, 2000.
  
  
• "Development Planning," in the Practice of Local Government Planning, Washington D.C.: International City Management Association, 2000 (with E. Kaiser)
  
  
• "State Smart Growth Efforts Around the Nation," special issue of Popular Government, Fall 2000.

 
• Natural Hazard Mitigation: Recasting Disaster Policy and Planning, Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1999 (with T. Beatley, P. Berke, D. Brower, and E. Kaiser).

• Managing Conflict in Planning and Design, co-editor, special issue of Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, Summer 1999.

• "Integrating Hazard Mitigation and Local Land Use Planning," in R. Burby, (ed.), Cooperating with Nature: Confronting Natural Hazards with Land-Use Planning for Sustainable Communities, Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press, 1998 (with E. Kaiser and P. Berke). 

• Urban Land Use Planning, 4th edition. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. (with E. Kaiser and F.S. Chapin, Jr).

• Pulling Together: A Planning and Development Consensus Building Manual, Washington, D.C.: Urban Land Institute, 1994 (co-author).