Jeremy Németh, PhD is an Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and the Director of the PhD program in Geography, Planning, and Design at the University of Colorado Denver. He is currently a Chancellor’s Urban Engaged Scholar, which recognizes “outstanding contributions to the Denver metro region through community-engaged scholarship.”
His research looks at how planners, designers, and city dwellers can help create more socially and environmentally just places. He is particularly interested in the relationship between social equity and the built environment, and his recent work examines issues of disaster justice, shrinking cities, transportation equity, and green gentrification.
He is currently serving a three-year term as a Fulbright Specialist, and in 2015-16 was a Fulbright Scholar at the Università degli Studi Roma Tre and a Visiting Professor at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. He served as Chair of the Department of Planning and Design from 2012-15 and Director of the Master of Urban Design program from 2008-15.
His work can be found at http://jeremynemeth.com.