Michael Burayidi

About Michael Burayidi

I am an urban planning scholar and intellectual with interest in downtown/urban redevelopment and planning with multiple publics. I am author/editor of eight books in this area of scholarship. I am also author of PAS Report 490, Downtown Revitalization in Small and Midsized Cities.

Areas of Expertise

Housing, Land Use Planning and Governance

Selected Publications

• A Handbook of Urban Resilience (Routledge 2019)., Cities and the Politics of Difference: Multiculturalism and Diversity in Urban Planning (University of Toronto Press 2015)
• City Resilience (a 4-volume anthology on planning for city resilience (Routledge, 2015).
• Resilient Downtowns: A New Approach to Revitalizing the Centers of Small and Medium City Downtowns (Routledge 2013)

Recent Courses Taught

• Land use planning
• Comprehensive planning
• Planning theory
• Housing policy