Dr. William Drummond, Ph.D.

Drummond Dr. Drummond is an Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at Georgia Tech. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of North carolina at Chappel Hill in 1989, Master of Theology from Union Theological Seminary in 1980, M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in 1979,and his B.A. degree in History from Duke University in 1975.

MAJOR RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:

* Geographic Information Systems;
* Economic development applications of geographic information systems;
* Social service planning with geographic information systems;
* Growth management, land use policy and planning;
* Statistical analysis of land and housing markets;
* Planning analytical methods.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Virtual History (GT Research News)

"Extending the Revolution: Teaching Land Use Planning in a GIS Environment." Journal of Planning Education and Research. Summer 1994, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 280-291.

"Address Matching: GIS Technology for Mapping Human Activity Patterns." Journal of the American Planning Association. Spring 1995, vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 240-251.

"GIS as a Visualization Tool for Economic Development." Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems. Vol 17. no. 6, pp. 469-479.

"The Development of GIS-Based Small Area Social Indicators." Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management. Vol. 1, pp. 185-209. July 1993.

"Population Projection Models" (with David S. Sawicki). Spreadsheet Models for Urban and Regional Analysis. Edited by Richard K. Brail and Richard E. Klosterman. Rutgers Center for Urban Policy Research. February 1993.

"Computerized Information Management in a System-Poor Environment: Lessons from the Design and Implementation of a Computer System for the Sudanese Planning Ministry" (with Craig Calhoun and Dale Whittington). Third World Planning Review, November 1987.

"Land Data Systems: Defining a Research and Dissemination Agenda" (edited with Scott A. Bollens). Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Monograph 86-6, September 1986.

"An Examination of EPA's Regulatory Impact Analysis of Environmental Standards for Uranium Mill Tailings" (with Dale Whittington). Environmental Impact Assessment Review, September 1986.