Christopher Silver, Ph.D., AICP
Professor and Dean
College of Design, Construction and Planning
University of Florida
Christopher Silver, Ph.D., AICP is professor and dean of UF’s College of Design, Construction
and Planning. He came to UF in the fall of 2006 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
where he was professor and head of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning for eight years.
Prior to that, Dr. Silver served for three years as urban development advisor to Indonesia under
a U.S. Agency for International Development project. He also has held academic appointments at
Virginia Commonwealth University. His international experience in Indonesia began in 1989 with a
Fulbright Senior Lectureship at the University of Indonesia. Since then, he has spent more than a
decade researching urban development and decentralization in that country, as well as developing
and implementing faculty and student exchange programs.
Dr. Silver’s scholarship includes $2 million in funded research projects, and he is author or
co-author of five books (two forthcoming) as well as numerous articles, chapters, book reviews,
paper presentations and speeches. He earned his doctorate from the University of North Carolina.
He has held major positions in several national professional organizations, previously as co-editor
of the Journal of the American Planning Association, and most recently as president of the
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, chair of the International Division of the American
Planning Association and current editor of the Journal of Planning History. He has consulted on
historic preservation, affordable housing and tourism planning, both here and abroad.
