Jeffrey S. Lowe is an Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy,in the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at 德克萨斯南方大学. In addition to his responsibilities as Director of the 卓越住房中心 and Community Development Policy 研究.Prior to joining the Department of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy faculty,Lowe was a visiting Associate Professor of Urban Planning in the Graduate School of Architecture,Planning and Preservation at Columbia University; and Associate Director/visiting Associate Professor of the Mid Sized Cities Policy 研究 Institute, Graduate Program in City and Regional Planning at the University of Memphis, 分别.也, he has held faculty positions in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Jackson State University and 佛罗里达 State University.Lowe is a past distinguished visiting fellow at the Advanced 研究 Collaborative,研究生中心,纽约城市大学.
Lowe’s research focuses on social justice and racial equity concerns within the context of community development.His scholarship advances understanding and policy recommendation for innovations in community-based planning, 组织发展, and neighborhood revitalization and land use decisions in cities and regions. He is the author of Rebuilding Communities the Public Trust Way: Community Foundation Assistance to CDCs, 1980-2000(列克星敦出版社2006), which highlights cases of community foundation assistance to CDCs from 1980 to 2000 in Cleveland, 俄亥俄州, 迈阿密,佛罗里达, 和新奥尔良, 路易斯安那州, and other publications including those in Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning, 城市事务杂志, 及城市地理学. 目前,Lowe is a member of the Grounded Solutions Network (a Community Land Trust) 研究 Collaborative, and his efforts as an activist scholar aided in establishing the New York City Community Land Initiative and the Houston (Texas) Community Land Trust. Lowe earned a Bachelor of Business 政府 from Howard University; a Master of City and Regional Planning from Morgan State University; and a Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Policy Development from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.