David R. Godschalk, FAICP
Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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David R. Godschalk, FAICP, is Stephen Baxter Professor Emeritus in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where he continues to maintain an active teaching and writing schedule. A Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners, he has been both a professional planner and a prominent planning educator.
Godschalk has published ten books on the topics of:
- Growth management and land use planning,
- Natural hazard mitigation and coastal management, and
- Development dispute resolution and public participation.
His co-authored text, Urban Land Use Planning (University of Illinois Press, 2006) is in its fifth edition.
He is a member of the Board of the Multihazard Mitigation Council of the National Institute of Building Sciences. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation, the Board of Counselors of the Conservation Trust for North Carolina, and the Advisory Council of the Triangle Land Conservancy. He is on the editorial advisory boards of the Journal of the American Planning Association and the Journal of Architectural and Planning Research.
Godschalk was an elected member of the Chapel Hill Town Council (1985-1989) and the Governor’s appointee on the North Carolina Smart Growth Commission (2000-2001). He has been editor of the AIP Journal, vice president of a Tampa planning consulting firm, planning director of Gainesville, Florida, a planning faculty member at Florida State University, and an expert witness in a number of planning and growth management cases. He is a registered architect (inactive) in the state of Florida and a retired Commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve, where he was commanding officer of a Reserve destroyer crew.
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