Robert W. Lake

expertise: community development, environmental politics, planning theory, locational conflict, urban and political geography

ROBERT W. LAKE is Professor at the Rutgers University Center for Urban Policy Research (CUPR) and Co-Director of the Rutgers Community Outreach Partnership Center. He holds a Ph.D. in geography from the University of Chicago and is a member of the Graduate Faculty in the Department of Geography and the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. He is editor-in-chief of the CUPR Press and co-editor of Urban Geography, a bimonthly scholarly journal. Since 1974, Dr. Lake has supervised research at CUPR on a broad array of public policy issues in the fields of housing, land use, community development, and environmental regulation. His current research focuses on issues of community- based planning, neighborhood revitalization, urban politics, and environmental justice.

Dr. Lake is the author or editor of numerous books including Resolving Locational Conflict, Readings in Urban Analysis, The New Suburbanites: Race and Housing in the Suburbs, and Real Estate Tax Delinquency: Private Disinvestment and Public Response. His articles have been published in the Journal of the American Planning Association, Environment and Planning A, Policy Studies Journal, Progress in Human Geography, Urban Geography, Political Geography, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and elsewhere. His research and consulting have been funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Mental Health, Economic Development Administration, United States Information Agency, the Council for European Studies, and numerous state and local government agencies.

rlake@rci.rutgers.edu