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Teaching Faculty

The following members of our teaching faculty have regular and ongoing commitments to teach and develop courses and curriculum materials for the Lincoln Institute.

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Pedro Abramo is a professor and researcher at the Institute of Urban and Regional Planning and Research (IPPUR) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, specializing in property economics, urban land use and housing. He has taught and published in Brazil and internationally.

Claudio Acioly is an architect, urban planner, and development practitioner at the Institute of Housing and Urban Development Studies in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He has served as team leader and project manager on various housing and urban development projects in several countries, and he lectures internationally on housing policies, slum upgrading, land management, and inner-city revitalization.

Albina Aleksiéne is chief of the Market Data Analysis Group, State Enterprise Centre of Registers of Lithuania. She is responsible for developing a mass appraisal system in Lithuania to value real property for purposes of taxation.

Richard Almy is a partner at Almy, Gloudemans, Jacobs & Denne, a Phoenix-based firm specializing in assessment policy and procedures. As an international consultant, author and teacher, he advises countries developing market value-based property tax systems. He is former executive director of the International Association of Assessing Officers (IAAO).

Laurel Arndt, a consultant in environmental planning, open space, and natural areas in the urban environment in Phoenix, Arizona, has worked with local, regional, and state jurisdictions. She is working with the Lincoln Institute on its Making Sense of Place documentary film project and the state trust land project with the Sonoran Institute.

Lavea Brachman, attorney and 2004–2005 visiting fellow at the Lincoln Institute, teaches, writes, and practices in the area of brownfield and vacant property redevelopment. She is on leave as director of the Delta Institute Ohio, an organization working to improve environmental quality and promote community development in the Great Lakes region. She is currently writing a Guidebook on Brownfield Redevelopment for communitybased organizations.

David Brunori is research professor of public policy at George Washington University, and teaches state and local taxation at its law school. He is also a contributing editor of State Tax Notes and the author of Local Tax Policy: A Federalist Perspective.

Julie Campoli is principal of Terra Firma Urban Design, a landscape architecture, urban design and land planning firm, based in Burlington, Vermont, that assists communities in planning for compact growth. She is coauthor of Above and Beyond: Visualizing Change in Small Towns and Rural Areas and other publications.

Armando Carbonell, senior fellow and cochairman of the Department of Planning and Development at the Lincoln Institute, is also design critic in urban planning at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Previously, he was executive director of the Cape Cod Commission, a regional planning and land use regulatory agency.

Richard Carlson is director of valuation for the City of Boston Assessing Department, where he has worked in various research capacities since 1986. He has formulated multivariate regression equations for valuation of residential properties and implemented new valuation techniques including GIS.

Jeffrey Chapman is professor and director of the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University in Tempe. He specializes in state and local finance and administration of financial resources, and has recently published in the area of local land use responses to fiscal stress.

John Charman, fellow at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) in the United Kingdom, is a valuation surveyor and the coordinating editor of European Valuation Standards produced by the European Group of Valuers Associations. He teaches property appraisal to officials in countries in economic transition, and is former president of the Institute of Revenue, Rating, and Valuation.

Patrick Condon is the James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Livable Environments at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver. He is the driving force behind the Smart Growth on the Ground program, which works with host communities to produce 10 sustainable new urban districts in British Columbia by 2010.

Gary C. Cornia is the Stewart Grow Professor of Public Management and director of the Romney Institute of Public Management, at the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He has served as a member of the Utah State Tax Commission, chair of the Governor's Tax Review Commission in Utah, and president of the National Tax Association.

James J. Czupryna, appraiser and consultant based in Townsend, Massachusetts, has extensive practical and teaching experience in property valuation and environmentally sensitive lands. He was chairman of the American Society of Appraisers’ International Real Property Committee and former vice president of Hunneman and Company, Inc., a Boston real estate firm.

John Davis is partner and cofounder of Burlington Associates in Community Development LLC, a consulting cooperative specializing in projects that promote permanently affordable housing, mostly developed through community land trusts. Davis has taught housing policy and neighborhood planning at several New England universities.

Claudia De Cesare is a property tax adviser to the Secretariat of Finance in the municipality of Porto Alegre, Brazil. She has been involved in valuation, property taxation, and other land instruments in the academic and practical fields. She is a member of the advisory board of the International Property Tax Institute and is the former technical director of the Brazilian Appraisal Institute.

Carl F. Dierker is the regional counsel for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region I/New England, in Boston, Massachusetts. He is responsible for providing overall legal and policy advice to the regional administrator and other senior managers in all areas of federal environmental law.

Chengri Ding is a professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Maryland in College Park. He specializes in urban economics, housing and land studies, GIS and spatial analysis. He is special assistant to the president of the Lincoln Institute for the Program on the People's Republic of China.

Alan Dornfest, property tax policy supervisor for the Idaho State Tax Commission, has analyzed tax programs for more than 25 years. He is an assessment administration specialist for the International Association of Assessing Officers, has instructed and developed sales ratio studies and tax policy courses, served IAAO technical committees and the IAAO Executive Board, and authored several books.

Richard F. Dye is Ernest A. Johnson Professor of Economics at Lake Forest College in Illinois and adjunct professor at the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research concentrates on state and local government finance as it relates to economic development and has examined the impact of Illinois’ property tax cap. He is visiting fellow at the Lincoln Institute in 2005–2006.

Richard W. England is professor of economics at the University of New Hampshire and visiting fellow at the Lincoln Institute. During recent years, his research has concentrated on how local property taxation and zoning rules affect land use change in the United States. He has been widely published, and has been visiting professor at numerous international universities.

Diego Alfonso Erba, visiting fellow at the Lincoln Institute, is professor in the Department of Exact and Technological Sciences, University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), São Leopoldo, Brazil. He has worked with distance education for many years in Brazil, and is writing a book about the cadastral systems of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Ann-Margaret Esnard is associate professor and director of the Visual Planning Technology Lab in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Florida Atlantic University. She has a multidisciplinary background in planning, agronomy, and engineering, along with computer applications expertise. Esnard teaches courses and publishes on a variety of topics related to GIS, land use, and environmental planning.

Rex L. Facer II is assistant professor of public management at the Romney Institute of Public Management of the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He specializes in city management, public finance, public management strategy, and public policy analysis.

Andreas Faludi is chair of spatial policy systems in Europe at Delft University of Technology. He has written extensively on planning theory and on Dutch and European planning, and is the editor of the volume European Spatial Planning (Lincoln Institute, 2002).

Charles J. Fausold is state extension specialist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He is the author of several Lincoln Institute working papers on the value of open space.

Edésio Fernandes is a lawyer, urban planner, and professor in the Development Planning Unit of University College, London, and has conducted research on the legal-political conditions for urban environmental management in developing countries. He coordinates the International Research Group on Law and Urban Space in London, and was director of the National Program to Support Land Regularization in the Brazilian Ministry of Cities.

William Fischel is professor of economics and Patricia F. and William B. Hale ’44 Professor in Arts and Sciences at Dartmouth College. His research specialties are the law and economics of land use, local government, and property taxation. He is author of The Economics of Zoning Laws, Regulatory Takings, and The Homevoter Hypothesis. He is visiting fellow in 2005–2006 at the Lincoln Institute.

Fernanda Furtado is a professor and researcher in the School of Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal Fluminese University, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. As fellow at the Lincoln Institute, she has contributed to the development of the Program on Latin America and the Caribbean since 1995. She has studied, lectured, and published extensively on the topic of value capture.

Jerome C. German is director and chief assessor in the Real Estate Division of the Lucas County Auditor’s office. He helped develop and implement integrated countywide computer-assisted mass appraisal systems (CAMA) and geographic information systems (GIS). He teaches and publishes widely on assessment administration, GIS spatial analysis, and CAMA modeling.

Robert J. Gloudemans is a consultant and partner in Almy, Gloudemans, Jacobs & Denne, a Phoenix-based firm specializing in assessment policy and procedures. He advises and teaches mass valuation techniques to assessment jurisdictions in North America and countries in economic transition.

Rosalind Greenstein is senior fellow and cochairman of the Department of Planning and Development at the Lincoln Institute. She specializes in the political economy of metropolitan regions, research design and epistemology, and local economic development with an emphasis on the social implications of such development.

Mark Haveman is program director for the Minnesota Center for Public Finance Research, the research and education arm of the Minnesota Taxpayers Association. His areas of project responsibility include education finance, property taxes, and local government aid distribution. He also served as program director at the Minnesota Office of Strategic and Long-Range Planning.

Yu-Hung Hong, fellow at the Lincoln Institute, is engaged in research on utilizing land as public revenue sources with a focus on institutional development of property taxation, public leasehold systems, and land readjustment. He teaches public finance in the Department of Urban Study and Planning at MIT.

Lewis D. Hopkins is professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and author of Urban Development: The Logic of Making Plans. His research considers when and how to make and use plans for urban development, and his publications address the logic of plans and the design of computing tools to enhance planning.

Jack Huddleston is professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has served as chief economist for the Wisconsin Office of State Planning and as chief of local fiscal policy analysis for the Wisconsin Department of Revenue. His research and teaching focus on local and state finance, regional economic development, and planning analysis and evaluation.

Gregory K. Ingram is president and CEO of the Lincoln Institute and cochairman of the Department of International Studies. He was formerly Director-General Operations Evaluation at the World Bank, where he was responsible for evaluating operations, policies, and programs. He has published in the areas of housing and land markets, urban economics, infrastructure, environment, and development.

Harvey M. Jacobs is professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and the Gaylord Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research and teaching focus on public policy, theory and philosophy of land use, environmental management, and the impact of the private property rights movement.

Thomas A. Jaconetty, chief deputy commissioner of the Board of Review of Cook County, Illinois, has been involved in the disposition or review of taxes on numerous parcels of real estate. A certified review appraiser, he has written about property taxation and assessment administration. In 1998 he was appointed to the Planning Committee of the National Conference of State Tax Judges where he served as chairman in 2003 and 2004.

Jerold S. Kayden is Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design and cochair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at Harvard University Graduate School of Design where he also serves as director of the Master in Urban Planning Degree program. His research and teaching focus on law and the built environment, and publicprivate urban development.

Daphne A. Kenyon heads D. A. Kenyon & Associates, a public policy consulting firm, in Windham, New Hampshire. She has served as president of the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, professor and chair of the Economics Department at Simmons College, and senior economist with the Office of Tax Analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Urban Institute. She is visiting fellow during 2005–2006 at the Lincoln Institute.

Tom Kingsley is senior researcher of housing, urban policy, and governance at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC. He served as director of the Institute’s Center for Public Finance and Housing from 1986 to 1997, and currently directs the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership, which aims to further the development of advanced data systems for urban policy analysis and community building.

Josh Kirschenbaum is senior program associate at PolicyLink in California, where he coordinates the Community Building in the Digital Age initiative to understand how technology can be used to build healthy communities. He is the coauthor of Community Mapping: Using Geographic Data for Neighborhood Revitalization.

Gerrit-Jan Knaap is a professor of urban studies and planning, and the director of the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education at the University of Maryland, in College Park. He is the coauthor, editor and coeditor of several books, including: Land Market Monitoring for Smart Urban Growth (Lincoln Institute, 2001) and Partnerships for Smart Growth: University-Community Collaboration for Better Public Places (with Wim Wiewel; M.E. Sharpe and Lincoln Institute, 2005).

Alex Krieger, professor and chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, is founding principal of Chan Krieger & Associates in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This award-winning firm offers architectural, urban design, and master planning services.

Michael Kwartler is an architect, planner, urban designer and educator. He is the founding director of the Environmental Simulation Center, a nonprofit research laboratory that develops innovative applications of information technology for community planning. He has written and taught extensively on urban design and the practice of legislating good city form.

Robert N. Lane is director of the Regional Design Program at the Regional Plan Association, New York City, which is devoted to combating sprawl and promoting centered development in the metropolitan region. He heads RPA’s Healthy Communities initiative, which links community design to physical activity and health.

James N. Levitt directors the Program on Conservation Innovation at the Harvard Forest of Harvard University, Petersham, Massachusetts. He also serves as research fellow at the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. His work focuses on how to advance and finance land and biodiversity conservation.

John Chien-Yuan Lin is a professor at the Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University, Taipei. His research focuses on national infrastructure and land use planning, industrial/business park development, and local economic development. He has published (in Chinese): Knowledge Economy and Land Use and New Urban Planning Paradigm in the 21st Century.

Gianni Longo is the founding principal of ACP-Visioning & Planning, a firm based in New York and Columbus, Ohio. In 1984, Longo developed Vision 2000, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the first and most successful visioning program in the country. He is the author of several books including A Guide to Great American Public Places.

Therese J.McGuire is professor of management and strategy at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in Chicago, Illinois, and is faculty fellow at Northwestern’s Institute for Policy Research. Her areas of expertise are state and local government finances and regional economic development. She is coeditor of the National Tax Journal.

Matthew J.McKinney is director of the Public Policy Research Institute at the University of Montana, Helena. He was founding director of the Montana Consensus Council and helped citizens and officials with diverse viewpoints develop forums to build agreement on effective public policy on land use planning and growth management. He has published extensively.

Alex MacLean is the founder of Landslides, a Cambridge, Massachusetts, firm specializing in illustrative aerial photography. He has spent more than 25 years recording American cultural landscapes and is the author of several books, including Above and Beyond: Visualizing Change in Small Towns and Rural Areas.

Daniel P. McMillen is professor in the Department of Economics and the Institute for Government and Public Affairs at University of Illinois at Chicago. His fields of specialization include urban economics, real estate, and applied econometrics. He has published widely in these areas, and is visiting fellow in 2005–2006 at the Lincoln Institute.

María Mercedes Maldonado, attorney and city planner, is professor and researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for Regional Studies (CIDER), University of Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. Her principal areas of research include the ethnic and legal significance of urban rights, property rights, and modifications to the states’ rights in issues such as territory, land management, and value capture.

Jane H. Malme, fellow at the Lincoln Institute, is an attorney and consultant on property tax policy, law, and administration in North America and internationally, and directed the Massachusetts Department of Revenue's Bureau of Local Assessment as it implemented major property tax reforms from 1978–1990. She is coauthor of An International Survey of Taxes on Land and Buildings and The Development of Property Taxation in Economies in Transition.

Dan Marckel is senior research fellow in the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Trained as an architect, he works with public and private groups to revitalize aging communities and manages multijurisdictional efforts to integrate land use development, natural and social systems, and infrastructure.

Rosemary Monahan coordinates EPA–New England's Smart Growth Program, which helps communities grow in environmentally sound ways. She ran EPA–New England's Sustainable Development Challenge Grant program, which funded innovative projects that integrated environmental protection, economic development, and community well-being.

Carlos Morales Schechinger has been professor at the Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM) for more than 20 years. He has held positions in taxation, land policy, urban projects, property mortgages, and real estate management in the Secretariat of Urban Development in Mexico City’s Treasury Department and in national development and private banks.

John R. Mullin, president of Mullin Associates, Inc., is also dean of the Graduate School and director of the Center for Economic Development at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He specializes in economic development, industrial planning, and market analysis, and has consulted on projects in New England, Pennsylvania, and New York.

Wallace E. Oates is a professor of economics at the University of Maryland in College Park, and a university fellow at the Energy and Natural Resources Division of Resources for the Future, Washington, DC. His primary interests are public finance, particularly fiscal federalism and state-local finance, and environmental economics.

Paul V. O'Leary, attorney and accredited senior appraiser in West Barnstable, Massachusetts, is active in many appraisal, legal, and real estate professional associations. He is a senior member of both the American Society of Appraisers (ASA) and the Massachusetts Board of Real Estate Appraisers.

R. Kelley Pace occupies the LREC Endowed Chair of Real Estate at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He has served as guest editor and on the editorial board of the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. His writing and research focus on modeling spatial and temporal aspects of data.

Dan L. Perlman, assistant professor of biology and chairman of the Environmental Studies Program at Brandeis University, taught conservation biology at Harvard University for nine years. He is coauthor of Practical Ecology for Planners, Developers, and Citizens (Island Press and Lincoln Institute, 2005) and the electronic textbook Conserving Earth’s Biodiversity.

David Perry is director of the Great Cities Institute and professor of urban planning and policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a senior research fellow at the International Institute of Communications at San Diego State University, and coauthor of The University as Developer: Case Studies and Analysis (with Wim Wiewel; M.E. Sharpe and Lincoln Institute, 2005).

Richard D. Pomp is the Alva P. Loiselle Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law, in Hartford. He is a consultant to numerous cities, counties and states, as well as the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Congress and the Department of Justice. He has taught at several universities and is the author of more than 70 articles, numerous chapters in books, various monographs and a leading casebook on state taxation.

Peter Pollock directs Boulder, Colorado’s Planning Department. He previously was the urban planner for the National Renewable Energy Lab, where he specialized in solar access protection and energy-conserving land use planning.

Eduardo Reese is professor of management and the urban project at the Conurbano Institute at the General Sarmiento National University in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is also professor of planning methodology, architectural projects, and land management in several postgraduate courses at the National Universities at Cordoba, La Plata, and Mar del Plata. He is responsible for various urban planning projects in Argentina.

Francisco Sabatini, professor at the Institute of Urban and Territorial Studies, at the Catholic University of Chile in Santiago, specializes in residential segregation, citizen participation and environmental conflicts. He has published widely and also works as a consultant for public agencies, and private and public corporations.

Paulo Sandroni is an economist and professor at the Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil, and at the Schools of Public Administration and Economics of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo. He is a consultant on macroeconomic impacts of urban transformations and real estate assessment.

Robert M. Schwab is associate dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Maryland in College Park. His primary field of research is public economics, particularly in state and local government. He has contributed to several papers and books on education, infrastructure, land taxation, and tax amnesties.

Stephen J. Small, tax attorney in Boston, Massachusetts, was previously an attorney adviser in the Office of Chief Counsel of the IRS, where he wrote the federal income tax regulations on conservation easements. He is the author of many publications, including The Federal Tax Law of Conservation Easements and Preserving Family Lands. He advises landowners on federal income and estate tax planning.

Martim O. Smolka is senior fellow and cochairman of the Department of International Studies and director of the Program on Latin America and the Caribbean at the Lincoln Institute. He is the author of many publications on intraurban structuring, the dynamics of property markets in Latin American cities, and property tax systems. He is also associate professor (on leave of absence) at the Urban and Regional Research and Planning Institute (IPPUR) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Yan Song is assistant professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests include economics of land use regulations, growth management, spatial analysis of urban form, land use and transportation interactions, and how to accommodate research by using systems such as GIS and other computer-aided planning tools.

Frederick Steiner is dean of the School of Architecture and Henry M. Rockwell Chair in Architecture, University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of many publications on ecological landscape planning and design. His most recent book is Human Ecology: Following Nature’s Lead.

Jeffrey O. Sundberg is associate professor in the Department of Economics and Business at Lake Forest College in Illinois and chair of its Environmental Studies Program. His research focuses on the demographic and economic variables of ballot measures for open space public funding and the tax implications of conservation easements.

Lawrence Susskind is Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the president of the Consensus Building Institute, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An experienced land use mediator, he has mediated more than 50 complex disputes related to the location of controversial facilities and the formulation and implementation of development projects.

Jody Tableporter is head of regeneration for the London Development Agency. Her projects include the redevelopment of the Waterloo and Elephant & Castle station areas, the refurbishment of the South Bank arts complex, and the restoration of Crystal Palace Park. Prior to her work at LDA, Jody advised architectural firms on large-scale physical master plans.

Robert Tannenwald is assistant vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and director of its New England Public Policy Center. He specializes in state and local public finance and has researched devolution, unemployment insurance, the business tax climate, and the impacts of state and local tax policies. He publishes Fiscal Facts, a newsletter on the fiscal condition of New England.

Michelle Thompson real estate research and education consultant in Ithaca, New York, coordinates courses for the Lincoln Institute. She has applied her expertise in real estate appraisal, geographic information systems, and computer modeling of the spatial component of property value to a wide variety of educational programs and community development work.

Maria Clara Vejarano is coordinator and professor in the Architecture and Urbanism School at the National University of Colombia, Bogotá. She researches and consults on urban and regional planning, housing, and instruments for land management. She formerly worked in the National Department of Planning and the Ministry of Economic Development.

Lawrence C. Walters is associate professor of public policy analysis and director of the MPA program at George Mason University, in Fairfax, Virginia. He has written on regulated utility property tax assessment and on state procedures for centralized assessment practices.

Wim Wiewel is senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of Baltimore, where he is also professor of public administration. His most recent books include The University as Urban Developer: Case Studies and Analysis (with David C. Perry; M.E. Sharpe and Lincoln Institute, 2005) and Partnerships for Smart Growth: University-Community Collaboration for Better Places (with Gerrit-Jan Knaap; M.E. Sharpe and Lincoln Institute, 2005).

Robert D. Yaro, president of Regional Plan Association, New York City, is professor of city and regional planning at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. He chairs the Civic Alliance to Rebuild Downtown New York, a coalition formed to guide redevelopment in the aftermath of September 11.

Joan M. Youngman is senior fellow and the chairman of the Department of Valuation and Taxation at the Lincoln Institute. An attorney, she specializes in state and local taxation and the legal problems of valuation for property taxation.

Yves Zenou is professor of economics at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Sweden. His research interests include urban, labor, public, and development economics. He teaches urban economics, game theory, and search-matching models in the labor market and has published extensively.