Goldsmith, William W
Professorresearch
research and scholarship focus
- United States Urban Policy
- Political Economy: race and class
- International Urbanization
- Development and Underdevelopment
- Latin America and the Caribbean
international geographic focus
- Brazil | country
- Canada | country
- Caribbean | trans-national region
- Chile | country
- France | country
- Latin America | trans-national region
- Netherlands | country
- United Kingdom | country
affiliations
head of
- International Development | graduate field
faculty appointment in
- City and Regional Planning (CRP) | Cornell department
member of graduate field
- City and Regional Planning | graduate field
- International Agriculture and Rural Development | graduate field
- International Development | graduate field
- Latin American Studies | minor graduate field
- Public Affairs | graduate field
- Regional Science | graduate field
teaching
teaching focus
- Urban Spatial Theory
- The City in Brazil
- Third World Urbanization
- The American City
- The European City
- Regional Planning and Development in Developing Nations
- Writing Seminars
teaches
- CRP 4900 - Student-Faculty Research (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- CRP 4920 - Undergraduate Honors Thesis Research (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- CRP 4930 - Undergraduate Honors Thesis Writing (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- CRP 4970 - Independent Study (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- CRP 7970 - Independent Study for Graduate Students (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- CRP 8910 - Masters Thesis in Regional Science (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- CRP 8920 - Masters Thesis, Project, or Research Paper (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- CRP 9920 - Doctoral Dissertation (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- CRP 4900 - Student-Faculty Research (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- CRP 4920 - Undergraduate Honors Thesis Research (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- CRP 4930 - Undergraduate Honors Thesis Writing (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- CRP 4970 - Independent Study (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- CRP 5190 - Urban Theory & Spatial Development (TR 02:55:PM-04:10:PM) | spring 2009 class
- CRP 7940 - Planning Internships (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- CRP 7970 - Independent Study for Graduate Students (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- CRP 8920 - Masters Thesis, Project, or Research Paper (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- CRP 9920 - Doctoral Dissertation (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- CRP 1100 - The American City (M 11:15:AM-12:05:PM) | fall 2008 class
service
current professional activities
- Director, Department of City and Regional Planning program, Rome
- Member, steering committee, Cornell's Latin American Studies Program
- Member, Editorial Board, Journal of the American Clean Air Act
- Member, Advisory Board of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
background
educational background
- Ph.D., Cornell University, 1968
- B.S.C.E., University of California, Berkeley, 1963
awards and distinctions
- Best Book Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning
featured in
- Barclay Jones' legacy lives on in new urban design lab | Cornell Chronicle feature
publications
selected publications (listing in progress)
- Schools in the City: Good Planning vs. Injuries of Class, Race, and Place - Draft
- Suburbs Still Sabatoge Cities - Draft
- The Invisible City of Color, or 'I Thought This Was a Course on Writing!' Local Knowledges, Local Practices: Writing in the Disciplines at Cornell, ed., Jonathan Monroe, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003.
- Political Economy (with Christopher Gunn), entry in the Encyclopedia of Community, Sage, 2003.
- Urban Responses to the Lost Decades: Insights from Brazil, Mexico, South Africa and the United States (with Priscilla Connolly and Alan Mabin), Landlines 15, 2, April 2003.
- Boss Nova In Brazil (with Abdurazack Karriem and Hannah Wittman), Bookpress 12, 8, December 2002.
- Levelling the Field: City Realities versus Anti-Urban Myths, Planners Network, September/December 2001 and winter 2002.
- Participatory Budgeting and Power Politics in Porto Alegre (with Carlos B. Vainer), Landlines 13, 1, January 2001. Also in Revista EURE 27, 82, December 2001 (Santiago, Chile).
contact
email address
wwg1@cornell.edu