Dr. Robert Goodspeed

Biography

Robert Goodspeed is an Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. His teaching areas encompass sustainability, resilience and adaptation, climate change, applied planning skills, land use, and environmental planning. Dr. Goodspeed’s research focuses on the use of new information technologies to enhance the planning process and outcomes, employing mixed-methods studies to examine innovative urban planning practices. His work integrates Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to develop novel methodologies and includes a theoretical analysis of sociotechnical practices such as crowdfunding in smart cities. He obtained his Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has a Master of Community Planning from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor’s in History from the University of Michigan. Dr. Goodspeed received the 2013 Donald Schön Award for Excellence in Learning and Practice from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning for his dissertation on planning support systems in spatial planning. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and serves on the board of the Consortium for Scenario Planning, an initiative of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Before pursuing his Ph.D., he was a research analyst at the Boston Metropolitan Area Planning Council and co-founded several award-winning websites.

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