Faculty Biography

Branden M. Born
B.S., M.S., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Urban Design and Planning

410H Gould Hall, Box 355740
College of Architecture & Urban Planning
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-5740
206-543-4975
206-543-4190
206-685-9597 (FAX)
bborn@u.washington.edu

My primary interests are in planning process and policy/decision making, land use, and social justice. Specifically, I am interested in the differential impacts on population subsets from land use and social policy decisions. Currently this translates into examination of the Growth Management Act and its effects on urban density, and studying food systems in an applied and theoretical manner. I am particularly interested by the political realities that make or break projects. Thus I focus my time on community issues that relate to land use, planning decision making, and food systems. I believe critical thought and the ability to clearly identify questions are crucial to both learning and successful planning and policy development. My research interests, teaching philosophy, and personal goals are congruent with the departmental mission, and I try to involve students through in-class exercises and community service as they hone their skills and develop their professional interests during their UDP tenure.

Courses:

• URBDP 506 Planning Studio Prep
• URBDP 507 General Urban Planning Laboratory
• URBDP 520 Quantitative Methods in Urban Design and Planning
• URBDP 598 Planning for Urban Food Systems
• URBDP 598 Land Use II

Selected publications include:

Born, Branden and Mark Purcell. "Avoiding the Local Trap: Scale and Food Systems in Planning Reasearch," Journal of Planning Education and Research. Winter 2006.

Born, Branden. "A vision of South Lake Union in 2020: Expect more jobs, denser growth and an end to the Mercer Mess," Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce. October 5, 2006.

Jacobs, Harvey, and Branden Born. 2000. Assessing the Land Use Policy Capacities in Wisconsin's Great Lakes Coastal Counties with Emphasis on Coastal Hazards Mitigation (21p). Report prepared for the Wisconsin Coastal Management Program of the Wisconsin Department of Administration. Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Allan, Majid, Branden Born, and Geoff Herbach (editors). 1997. Fertile Ground: Planning for the Madison/Dane County Food System (89p). Final report of URPL Graduate Planning Workshop class. Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin-Madison.