Dawn Jourdan

About Dawn Jourdan

Dawn Jourdan is the Dean of the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Dawn studies issues at the intersection of urban planning and law. She is the author of Planning for Wicked Problems: A Planner’s Guide to Land Use Law.

Areas of Expertise

Planning Law and Administration, Land Use Planning and Governance

Selected Publications

Jourdan, D., E. Strauss, and M. Hunter. Sign Code Development Process: Best Practices in the Interdisciplinary Journal of Signage and Wayfinding,2:1, 2017, 32-58.

Jourdan, D., K. Hurd,* W. Gene Hawkins, and K. Winson Geideman, Evidence Based Sign Regulation: Regulating Signage on the Basis of Empirical Wisdom in The Urban Lawyer, 45:2, Spring 2014, 327-348.

Recent Courses Taught

Land Use Controls