Biosketch Harley Etienne is an Assistant Professor, jointly appointed to the School of City and Regional Planning and the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He teaches in the areas of urban community development, inner-city revitalization, neighborhood change, urban poverty, and qualitative research issues in planning. Etienne’s research focuses primarily on the intersection of social institutions and their relationship to processes of urban neighborhood change. He is keenly interested in the role that colleges and universities play in contributing to neighborhood-level change and regional economic development. Prior to graduate school, Etienne worked in Philadelphia in the public policy and economic development sectors for Greater Philadelphia First (now merged with the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce) and the Pennsylvania Economy League. Educational Background 2007 - Ph.D. (City and Regional Planning), Cornell University 2002 - M.A. (Urban Studies), Temple University 1996 - B.A. (Sociology), Morehouse College
Certifications
Member, American Planning Association
Fields
Housing and Community Development
Economic Development
Regional Development and Social Inclusion
Social Policy
Urban Theory
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housing and community development; economic development; regional development and social inclusion; social policy; urban theory]]>Recent Courses
CP 6612: Community Development: This course introduces students to the theory, history and practice of community development from the post-World War II era to the present through an analysis of case studies, federal policy and programs. This course also introduces students to the concepts of community development through organizing, capacity building, community-based organizations and community development corporations, and gentrification.
CP 64424: Equity, Social Justice and Economic Development: This course focuses how socially inclusive economic development is pursued by understanding various issues including workforce development, spatial mismatch, fair share housing schemes, the comparative advantage of suburbs vs. inner-cities and other relevant topics.
CP 4020 / PUBP 4211: Introduction to City and Regional Planning / Urban Policy
Current MCRP Advisees
Zachary Andriaenssens
Jesse Clark
Moki Macias
Micah Stryker
Recent Masters Projects Supervised
Brett Wearing, “School Choice and Urban Sprawl”
Steven Simms, “Micro‐finance and Community Development”
Reginald McClendon, “Adaptive Reuse of Abandoned School Buildings”
Glenn Frankel, “Aging in Cohousing: Community Matters”
Jessie Lawrence, “Sports and Entertainment as an Economic Generator in the Redevelopment of Downtown Newark”
Jess Rafferty, “Youth and Community Development: Collaborative Efforts to Impact Communities”
Matt Tester, “Split‐Rate Taxation: Augmenting the Planner’s Toolkit”
Tashieka Tucker, “The Use of K‐12 Education as an Economic Development Strategy for City Planners”
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My research focuses on understanding processes of neighborhood change and the resulting patterns of social inclusion and exclusion that result from that. This research interest ties the analysis of modes of economic development and the practice of planning as it pertains to the issues of race, gender and class.
Recent Publications
Pushing Back the Gates: Neighborhood-Level Perspectives on University-Led Urban Revitalization, Forthcoming, Temple University Press.
Diversity
in Urban Planning: From Admissions to Practice with Elizabeth Sweet (Accepted/Forthcoming: Journal of Planning Education and Research)
Setting
the Stage for Long-Term Recovery in Haiti with
Rob Olshansky (Under Review)
“Learning from Earthquakes: The Mw 7.0 Haiti
Earthquake of January 12, 2010: Report #1”, April 2010, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute Newsletter with Scott
Miles, Rebekah Green and Rob Olshansky
Review: "The Black Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century," Robert D. Bullard, editor. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. Journal of the American Planning Association, 74(2): 258-9.
Review: “Global Universities and Urban Development: Case Studies and Analysis,” Wim Wiewel and David C. Perry, editors. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, Inc. Economic Development Quarterly, 23(3): 267.
Funded Projects
English Avenue Planning Studio, Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute (Jan. 2008 – August 2008)
Housing Assessment of Pryor Road Neighborhoods, Atlanta Enterprise Communities (May 2009 – December 2009)