Kirk Harris

About Kirk Harris

Dr. Harris founded the Center for Equity Practice and Planning Justice at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning and serves as its Founding Director.

Dr. Harris served on the APA Social Justice Taskforce and his commentary is featured at:

Areas of Expertise

Anti-racism Planning, Community Development, Economic Development, Planning Law and Administration

Selected Publications

• Harris, Kirk E. Understanding the Disposition of Urban Planning Students Toward Social Justice
  and Equity Themes. SAGE Open July-September 2015: 1–15.
• Harris, Kirk E. Because We Can Doesn’t Mean We Should, and if We Do: Urban Communities, Social and Economic Justice, and Local Economic-Development-Driven Eminent Domain Practices. Economic Development Quarterly 2015, Vol. 29(3) 245 –261.
• CHICAGO BLACK MEN & BOYS COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE: Advancing Safe and Healthy Families in Our Community, Report 2019.
• The Illinois Infant Mortality Consortium Pilot: Fathers Initiative. Commissioned by the Illinois Department of Health, Office of Maternal and Child Health, Report 2017.

Recent Courses Taught

• Race, Class, and the Just City Lab
• Planning Law and Constitutional Issues in Land Use
• Planning Theory and Practice
• Mediation and Negotiations for Planners