Smart Growth, Environmentalism, and Affordable Housing: are they compatible?
January 2006
Professor Calavita received his Doctorate, University of Florence. For many years now he has been a professor at San Diego State University. At present he is in the Graduate Program in City Planning at San Diego State University. Since 1980 the professor has taught courses in the History of Urban Planning, Urban Design and Planning Implementation. He is also an adjunct professor in the Urban Studies and Planning Program at UCSD, where he teaches a course in land use planning. Prof. Calavita has interests in affordable housing, growth management, new urbanism, planning history, and urban design.
He has written extensively about urban growth and affordable housing. His articles on the politics of growth, Inclusionary Housing and Housing Trust Funds have appeared in the Journal of the American Planning Association, Housing Policy Debate and the Journal of the Associate Schools of Planning. He regularly writes commentaries in the San Diego Union and Los Angeles Times on growth and housing issues. He is a member of SANDAG’s Walkable Communities Working Group and Co-Chair of SALUD (Scholars for Active Living through Urban Design) a program of the Active Living Policy & Environmental Studies (ALPES) Program.
Prof. Calavita is deeply involved in community issues. His expertise on growth issues and his opinions on how to implement solutions on Housing Problems is well known. These issues are not easily solved. I am sure he will come with some suggestions that we have heard before, but perhaps now is the time to pay attention and start working on solutions.