Charles E. Connerly

William G. and Budd Bell Professor and Chairperson
cconnerl@fsu.edu

Education

B.A. (History) Grinnell College, 1968. M.U.P. (Urban Planning) University of Michigan, 1976. M.S. (History) University of Connecticut, 1974. Ph.D. (Urban and Regional Planning) University of Michigan, 1980.

Interests

Professor Connerly's primary teaching and research areas include housing and community development, economic development, neighborhood planning, policy analysis and evaluation, and research methods and planning history. He has contributed to a number of important studies and monographs dealing with housing and community problems and policies.

Selected Publications

Books

“The Most Segregated City in America”: City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920-1980, June 2005, University of Virginia Press.

Growth Management in Florida: Planning for Paradise. In press. Ashgate Press.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“Fair Housing in the US and the UK”, Housing Studies, May 2006, 23-40.

“Attitudes Towards Growth Management in Florida: Comparing Citizen Support in 1985 and 2001", Journal of the American Planning Association, Fall 2004, 434-443.

“‘One Great City’ or Colonial Economy?  Explaining Birmingham’s Annexation Struggles, 1945-1990", Journal of Urban History, November 1999, 44-73.

“From Racial Zoning to Community Empowerment: the Interstate Highway System and the African-American Community in Birmingham, Alabama”, Journal of Planning Education and Research, December 2002, 99-114.

[Curriculum vitae]