Suzanne Moomaw

About Suzanne Moomaw

Suzanne Morse Moomaw, Chair and Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at UVA, focuses on housing, community, and economic development. She’s the former Director of UVA Press and author of Smart Communities. Moomaw also chairs the Finance Committee of the Charles F. Kettering Foundation.

Selected Publications

• Smart Communities: How Citizens and Leaders Can Build a Brighter Future (Second Edition, Jossey-Bass, 2014).
• Bittersweet: Extant Sugar Towns and the New Cuba (University of Virginia Press, 2026).
• Co-author, Pathways to Urban Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities for the United States. (Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2016).

Recent Courses Taught

• PLAN 3030: Neighborhoods, Communities, and Regions
• PLAN 5400: Housing and Community Development
• PLAC 4010: Neighborhood Planning Studio