Rolf Pendall, AICP
Assistant Professor
Department of City and Regional Planning
Cornell University
212 West Sibley Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
607-255-5561
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Rolf Pendall is an Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University, where he teaches courses in land use planning, growth management, affordable housing, infrastructure planning, and quantitative methods. His research on land-use controls concerns why communities adopt them, how they vary across the United States, whether they work as advertised, and whether they have desirable or undesirable consequences for affordable housing, ethnic and racial diversity, and the environment. In particular, he is interested in the prevalence and patterns of exclusionary zoning in US cities. He also researches land use change, using geographic information systems (GIS) and qualitative methods to analyze the patterns of and reasons for transition from rural to urban land use. Other research interests include tenant-based housing assistance and private property rights.
Before joining the faculty at Cornell University, Pendall taught in the graduate community planning program at the University of Rhode Island. In the early 1990s, he headed housing and land-use advocacy and research efforts at the Bay Area Council, a San Francisco-based business-sponsored organization with interests in affordable housing and regional growth management. Pendall holds a PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley, a MS in Community and Regional Planning and an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BA in sociology from Kenyon College in Ohio.