Jerold S. Kayden is the Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), where he also serves as Co-Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design and Director of the Master in Urban Planning Degree Program. His research and teaching focus on the relationship between urban planning, law, and the built environment, as well as the role of public-private partnerships in urban development. His books include: Privately Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience, Landmark Justice: The Influence of William J. Brennan on America's Communities, and Zoning and the American Dream: Promises Still To Keep. He has written numerous articles on the constitution and property rights, smart growth, design codes, and market-based regulatory instruments, among other subjects. His current research explores how ideas of context and harmony are applied and misapplied in design review, historic preservation, and judicial review.
As a lawyer and planner, Professor Kayden advises governments, developers, and non-profit organizations. He has briefed and argued cases and served as expert witness in federal and state land-use cases across the country. His international work includes work for the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the United Nations, among others, in Asia and the former Soviet Union. He served as Senior Advisor on Land Reform and Privatization to the Government of Ukraine in the early 1990s for USAID/PADCO. In 2002, he founded Advocates for Privately Owned Public Space to improve New York City’s 500-plus zoning-created plazas, arcades, and indoor spaces, and He has been principal constitutional counsel to the National Trust for Historic Preservation since 1990.
Professor Kayden has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, awards from, among others, the Environmental Design Research Association, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning/American Institute of Certified Planners, and the American Planning Association, National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and he was “Teacher of the Year” at the GSD. He received the AB, Juris Doctor, and Master of City and Regional Planning degrees from Harvard University. He subsequently served as law clerk to Judge James Oakes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Justice William Brennan of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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