About . . .Charles Connerly

Charles Connerly is William G. and Budd Bell Professor of urban and regional planning and department chair at Florida State University. His research primarily focuses on the history of race, planning, and communities in America. He is author of "The Most Segregated City in America": City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920-1980 (University of Virginia Press, 2005) and editor, along with Tim Chapin and Harrison Higgins of Growth Management in Florida: Planning for Paradise (Ashgate, 2007). He has also written over 25 articles. His work has been supported by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Florida Department of Community Affairs. He is currently researching a book on planning and Southern black communities in transition, which focuses on the effectiveness of planning in enabling historic African-American communities to preserve themselves in the midst of gentrification and redevelopment. Connerly is former co-editor of the Journal of Planning Education and Research and is the current North American Editor for Housing Studies.