Arnab Chakraborty

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://www.urban.uiuc.edu/faculty/chakraborty/

Title/Position:

Assistant Professor
Urban and Regional Planning

Bio/Research Summary:

Arnab Chakraborty is a specialist in land use policy with a special emphasis on factors that lead to a more efficient, equitable and environmentally sustainable urban structure, commonly known as smart growth. His research and teaching range from spatial allocation of public resources, regulation of land uses, and regional variations in politics of planning to effective communication of planning ideas. He is involved in action-oriented projects that bring together representative stakeholders including business, civic and elected officials to create more effective and sustainable growth policies. He has also developed participatory and analytical tools that are useful to local and state governments in quantifying land use, transportation and environmental impacts of development and development policies. In the past he has played a leading role in multiple regional planning exercises, most notably in Washington D.C. and Maryland.

In addition to USA, he has worked in The Netherlands, China and India. He is affiliated with the National Center for Smart Growth at the University of Maryland at College Park and the Land Use and Impact Assessment Modeling Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For more information on Arnab Chakraborty’s background see: http://www.urban.uiuc.edu/faculty/chakraborty/.