David S. Sawicki

Professor, College of Architecture
Professor, School of Public Policy

EDUCATION

Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1965
B.S.C.E.

Cornell University, 1971
Ph.D., Urban and Regional Planning

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Quantitative methods in urban and regional planning; methods of policy analysis and program evaluation; geographic information systems; economic development planning; case writing/teaching policy analysis; demographic analysis in public policy.

RECENT HONORS AND AWARDS

• Georgia Planning Association Award for Outstanding Plan Implementation and Effectiveness for "Tax Delinquency in The Atlanta Project Clusters." 1995.

• Support for Research on Crime in Atlanta. A Grant from Dr. Obie Clayton, Morehouse Research Institute. 1995.

• Support for Research on Lead Paint Poisening in Atlanta. A Grant from Dr. Joseph Miceli, Morehouse School of Medicine. 1995.

• McClure Prize (Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning), Honorable Mention awarded to Lynn Brockwell-Carey (Thesis Advisee). "The Feasibility of Building More Supermarkets in The Atlanta Project Area." 1993.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• "The Effects of Intermetropolitan Migration on Labor Force Participation in Poor Communities," with Mitch Moody. Under review by Economic Development Quarterly.

• "The Democratization of Data: Community Groups and Information Technology in the Next Decade," with Will Craig. Forthcoming in the Journal of the American Planning Association.

• "Deja-Vu All Over Again: Porter's Model of Inner-City Redevelopment," with Mitch Moody. Forthcoming in The Review of Black Political Economy.

• "Neighborhood Indicators: A Review of the Literature and An Assessment of Conceptual and Methodological Issues," with Patrice Flynn. Journal of the American Planning Association, Spring, 1996.

• "Exurban Industrialization: Implications for Economic Development Policy," with Arthur C. nelson and William J. Drummond. Economic Development Quarterly, Volume 9, Number 2, May 1995, pp. 119-133.

• "Disparate Trends: Metropolitan Atlanta Since 1960," with Amy A. Helling. 1994. Built Environment, Volume 20, Number 1, pp.9-24.

• "If (Urban) Design Is Everything, Maybe It's Nothing," with Richard Dagenhart. 1994. Journal of Planning Education and Research, Volume 13, No. 2, pp.146-148.

• Basic Methods of Policy Analysis and Planning (Second Edition) (with Dr. Carl V. Patton). 1993. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall).