Carolyn Loh

About Carolyn Loh

Her research focuses broadly on municipal planning and land-use regulatory processes and the actors and politics involved in those processes. She has conducted research on the role and impact of planning consultants on municipal comprehensive planning processes, planning capacity, planning ethics, plan implementation, planning for equity, arts and cultural planning, and local land use regulation around fracking and open space subdivisions. A former planning consultant, she frequently collaborates with planning practitioners and has written about the importance of practice-focused research.

Areas of Expertise

Land Use Planning and Governance

Selected Publications

Loh, Carolyn G., Amanda Ashley, Rose Kim, Leslie Durham, and Karen Bubb. \Placemaking in Practice: Municipal Arts and Cultural Plans' Approaches to Placemaking and Creative Placemaking.\ (2022). Journal of Planning Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X221100503. 

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Elliott, Rebekah L., Carolyn G. Loh, Carolyn E. Psenka, Jennifer M. Lewis, Kyoung-Yun Kim, Karl R. Haapala, and Gül Okudan Kremer. (2022). \Advancing Transformative STEM Learning by Converging Perspectives from Education, Social Science, Mathematics, and Engineering\, Journal of Integrated Design & Process Science. DOI 10.3233/JID-220006.

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Hsu, David, Clint Andrews, Albert Han, Carolyn G. Loh, Anna Osland, and Christopher Zegras. \Planning towards deep decarbonization across the U.S.\ (2022). Journal of Planning Literature. https://doi.org/10.1177/08854122221097977 

Recent Courses Taught

UP5010 - Resources and Communication in Planning 

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UP6260 - Land Use Policy and Planning

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GPH3130 - Introductory Urban Geography 

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UP6260 - Land Use Policy and Planning