Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Faculty
Stuart Meck

Stuart Meck, FAICP/PP
Associate Research Professor and Director, Center for Planning Practice
B.A. and M.A. in Journalism and Master of City Planning, The Ohio State University; M.B.A., Wright State University

 

Contact Information

Civic Square Building, room 247

Phone: (732) 932-3822, x640

Fax: (732) 932-3586

Email: stumeck@rutgers.edu

 

Research Interests

  • Land use law
  • Planning statute reform
  • State growth management
  • Affordable housing
  • Planning and zoning administration
  • Impact analysis
  • Public administration and finance
  • Comprehensive planning

 

Publications (2002-present) (partial list)

  • With Gregory K. Ingram, et al., Smart Growth Policies:  An Evaluation of Programs and Outcomes.  Cambridge, MA:  Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2009 (Chapter 6, Affordable Housing, with Tim MacKinnon, and Chapter 12, New Jersey State Profile).
  • With Kenneth Pearlman, Ohio Planning and Zoning Law, 2009 (14th) Edition. Eagan, MN: Thomson-West, 2009.
  • Chapter 6, Planning, in Managing Local Government Services, edited by Carl Stenberg and Susan Austin. Washington, D.C.: ICMA Press, 2007.
  • Numerous articles in American Planning Association, Planning and Urban Design Standards. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2006.
  • “Notes on Planning Statute Reform: Guideposts for the Road Ahead,” in Planning Reform in the New Century, edited by Daniel R. Mandelker. Chicago: Planners Press, 2005.
  • Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook: Model Statutes for Planning and the Management of Change, 2002 Edition. Chicago: American Planning Association, January 2002. (Gen. editor).
    Website: http://www.huduser.org/publications/polleg/growingsmart.html
    Also at: http://www.planning.org/growingsmart/

 

Monographs, Articles, and Papers

 

Profile

Stuart Meck is an associate research professor and director of the planning practice program in the Bloustein School.  Prior to his faculty appointment, he was director of the Center for Government Services (CGS), which was formerly part of the Bloustein School and served as the School’s training, research, and technical assistance unit. A specialist in planning statute reform and land use controls, Meck is a former national president of the American Planning Association, has 38 years of experience as a professional planner, researcher, and municipal administrator, and has written widely on planning and land use controls. His two major works are the Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook: Model Statutes for Planning and the Management of Change, 2002 edition (American Planning Association, 2002), for which he served as principal investigator and general editor; and, with Kenneth Pearlman, Ohio Planning and Zoning Law, 14th edition (Thomson-West 2009).  Meck is also a coeditor, with Professor Daniel R. Mandelker of the Washington University School of Law and several other attorneys and law professors, of Planning and Control of Land Development: Cases and Materials, 8th Edition (Lexis/Nexis, forthcoming in 2010).  He has done consulting work for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Czech Republic, the Fannie Mae Foundation, the Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands, Hillsborough County, Florida, and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, among others.  He has also provided technical assistance to a number of New Jersey municipalities. Meck is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners (FAICP), a licensed Professional Planner (PP) in New Jersey, and a registered Professional Community Planner (PCP) in Michigan.  Meck holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Journalism and a Master of City Planning from the Ohio State University, and an M.B.A. from Wright State University.  Meck is also an adjunct assistant professor in the Goucher College Master of Historic Preservation program.

 

Complete Curriculum Vitae (C.V.)

List of Publications