Peter Brown

About Peter Brown

Peter Hendee Brown, he/him/his, FAICP, FAIA, PHD, is a planner, architect, urban redevelopment consultant, and practitioner/academic who brings a multi-disciplinary approach to his professional work in city building and to his academic career as a teacher and writer.

Selected Publications

How Real Estate Developers Think: Design, Profits, and the Community, book, University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2015.






America’s Waterfront Revival: Port Authorities and Urban Redevelopment, book, University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2009.
\Actor perceptions of good design for real estate development,” a chapter in A Companion to
Real Estate, Squires, Heurkens, and Peiser, editors, Routledge Press, 2016., Producing the Urban Public Realm: Field Notes on Project Implementation, digital book, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing, 2019.

Recent Courses Taught

Private Sector Development, Planning Capstone Workshop, Planning and Design for the Urban Public Realm