{"390701":{"#nid":"390701","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Georgia Tech awards professor Mike Dobbins for his students\u2019 work with Atlanta\u2019s blighted communities","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMike Dobbins is the first non-scientist to win Georgia Tech\u2019s Innovation and Excellence in Laboratory Instruction Award, which recognizes his work with the CityLabs program in the School of City and Regional Planning.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDobbins is best known these days for the reports and proposals his students have produced on sweeping urban redevelopments. Recent topics include Memorial Drive; Fort McPherson; West End; and Northside Drive (which influenced the debate over Atlanta\u2019s provision of $200 million in bonds to build the Falcons stadium).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EReports produced under Dobbins\u2019 guidance traditionally cite the benefits of bringing all stakeholders into discussions \u2013 residents, community organizations, governmental entitites, and developers. The reports also emphasize opportunities to create jobs for nearby residents; to provide affordable housing; and to enable current residents to keep their homes after the neighborhood is improved.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cProfessor of Practice Mike Dobbins is a master of project selection, client relations, planning vision and student mentoring who not only consistently achieves the promise of experiential learning, but whose students leave Georgia Tech ready to overcome the most demanding professional challenges,\u201d Bruce Stiftel, chair of Tech\u2019s School of City and Regional Planning, said in a\u0026nbsp;statement.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28044","created_gmt":"2015-03-25 16:00:39","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:24:00","author":"Jessie Brandon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"maritime","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/saportareport.com\/ga-tech-awards-mike-dobbins-for-his-students-work-with-blighted-communities\/comment-page-1\/","dateline":{"date":"2015-03-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-03-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"101","name":"Award"},{"id":"53221","name":"dobbins"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"168874","name":"Saporta Report"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}