Faculty Profile

Pierre Clavel’s research and writing has been on planning, administration, and politics — with particular application to regionalism and nationalism in Appalachia and Wales, then applied to progressive cities like Hartford, Cleveland, Berkeley, Santa Monica, Burlington, Chicago, and Boston, as well as community development in Youngstown, Ohio, and Maine. Current projects include an archived collection and webpages on progressive cities and neighborhood planning.

Clavel was director of Cornell's Progressive Planning summer program from 1979–83, several times director of graduate studies, and department chair from 2001–04. Prior to Cornell, he taught at the University of Puerto Rico.

Clavel studied planning at the University of North Carolina, where he received his M.R.P. degree in 1959. He practiced with Blair and Stein Associates in New England and Upstate New York and received his Ph.D. at Cornell in 1966.

• CRP 3602 / 6602 American Planning History
• CRP 3090 / 5090 Community Development Seminar
• CRP 5130 Introduction to Planning History and Practice

• Opposition Planning in Wales and Appalachia (1983)
• The Progressive City (1986)
• Activists in City Hall: The Progressive Response to the Reagan Era (2010)

• Davidoff Award for the best book in planning (1989)

• Urban Affairs Association (2007, 2011)
• Planners Network, Memphis (2011)
  
• Research Committee of the International Sociological Society, Vancouver (2007)

• Progressive Cities