About Rolf Pendall
Rolf Pendall, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has over 30 years’ experience as a practitioner, scholar, and educator on a broad array of urban growth and development issues, including land-use planning and regulation; federal, state, and local affordable housing policy and programs; metropolitan growth patterns; and racial residential segregation and the concentration of poverty.
Selected Publications
In October 2019, we released the National Longitudinal Land Use Survey (NLLUS), a freely downloadable database of responses in 1994, 2003, and 2019 to a survey on local land-use regulations and housing programs in the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S. I’m now working on publications to analyze the responses; the first iteration (25 metropolitan areas only) was the basis for my 1995 dissertation from U.C. Berkeley.
,The second sub-project explores the incidence, motivation, and impacts of changes in land-use regulation, using results from NLLUS and the results of a big-data search for articles on land-use change from an archive of hundreds of newspapers. Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, we’re exploring why places change their regulations, whether those regulations cause housing markets to change, and how local planners carry out those changes.
Recent Courses Taught
UP 501: Planning Theory and History
,UP 510: Plan Making
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