John D. Landis
John Landis is Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches courses in planning history, housing, project development, land use planning, and computer mapping. Prof. Landis' recent research has focused on a wide variety of housing and growth policy issues, including transportation and land use, housing production and affordable housing, the environmental impacts of urban growth, and the extent and causes of urban sprawl. Prof. Landis has published more than two dozen book chapters and articles in such journals as Access, Urban Studies, Environment and Planning B, and Mortgage Banking. Prof. Landis is the principal author of "Raising the Roof: California Housing Development Opportunities and Constraints, 1997-2020," published in 2000 by the California Department of Housing and Community Development. Prof. Landis' article, "Imagining Land Use Futures," won the 1995 award for best feature article in the Journal of the American Planning Association.