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Robert W. Lake , Ph.D.
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Contact Information
Civic Square Building, room 483
Phone (732) 932-3133 ext.521
Fax (732) 932-2363
E-mail rlake@rci.rutgers.edu
Research Interests
- Community-based planning
- Locational conflict and social movements
- Environmental politics
- Urban and political geography
Courses
Publications and Activities
- Robert Lake. 2006. "Recentering the city," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 30: 194-197.
- Kathe Newman and Robert Lake. 2006. "Democracy, bureaucracy, and difference in U.S. community development politics since 1968," Progress in Human Geography 30: 44-61.
- Robert Lake. 2003. "Dilemmas of environmental planning in post-urban New Jersey," Social Science Quarterly 84: 1002-1017.
- Robert Lake. 2002. "Bring back big government," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 26: 815-822.
- Robert Lake and Kathe Newman. 2002. "Differential citizenship in the shadow state," GeoJournal 58: 109-120.
Profile
Robert Lake is Professor at the Center for Urban Policy Research (CUPR), Co-Director of the Rutgers Community Outreach Partnership Center, and a member of the Graduate Faculties in the Department of Geography and the Department of Urban Planning and Policy Development. He holds a Ph.D. in urban geography from the University of Chicago. Dr. Lake was Acting Director of CUPR (1997-98) and Associate Director during 1998-2000. He is Editor-in-Chief of the CUPR Press and Co-Editor of Urban Geography, a semi-quarterly scholarly journal. Since 1974, Dr. Lake has supervised research at CUPR on a broad array of public policy issues in the fields of housing, community development, and environmental policy. His current research focuses on environmental politics, environmental justice, locational conflict, local autonomy, and the role of community-based organizations in neighborhood revitalization. He is the author or editor of five books including Resolving Locational Conflict, Readings in Urban Analysis, and The New Suburbanites: Race and Housing in the Suburbs, and has published numerous articles in scholarly and professional journals. His research has been funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Economic Development Administration, United States Information Agency, National Science Foundation, U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee, National Institute of Mental Health, state and local governments, and private foundations.