William W. Goldsmith

William Goldsmith has published widely in scholarly journals on U.S. cities, segregation, and poverty, and also on international urbanization and regional development. His 2016 book, Saving U.S. Cities: A Progressive Plan to Transform Urban America won honorable mention for the John Friedmann Book Prize from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP). An earlier coauthored publication, Separate Societies: Poverty and Inequality in U.S. Cities won the Paul Davidoff Prize from ACSP in 1993; the second edition, in 2010, has a foreword by President Clinton.

A member of the planning faculty at Cornell from 1967 until 2012, Goldsmith also taught in Puerto Rico, Colombia, Brazil, Italy, and UC Berkeley. He chaired the planning department at Cornell and also served on the faculty committee of the Cornell Prison Education Program, the faculty board of Cornell University Press, and the City of Ithaca’s Board of Public Works, as well as cofounding and chairing the board of Better Housing for Tompkins County. Goldsmith served on the Environmental Protection Agency Clean Air Act Advisory Committee during the Clinton and Bush Administrations.

Goldsmith holds a Ph.D. from Cornell in planning, economic development, and public administration and a B.S. in civil engineering from UC Berkeley.