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Carlton Basmajian

Associate Professor of Community and Regional Planning, Urban Design, Iowa State University

Education
AB, University of Chicago (1996)
MCP, Georgia Institute of Technology (2000)
PhD, University of Michigan (2008)

Research Interests
History of urban and regional planning in the United States; Politics of planning, urban design, and the built environment; Planning in the US South; Regionalism and state-led planning; Landscapes of death

Current Projects
Regional Planning as Federal Policy: The Intergovernmental Cooperation Act of 1968 and the A-95 Review Process
Planned Modernization: the Southern Regionalists in the Interwar American South
Regionalism, Planning, and Growth: the Southern Growth Policies Board and the Sprawling American South

Experience

  • –present
    Professor of Community and Regional Planning, Urban Design, Iowa State University