David Perry (d.)
Former Professor Emeritus
Faculty Scholar, Great Cities Institute
Urban Planning and Policy; Great Cities Institute
Contact
Building & Room:
219 CUPPA Hall, MC 348
About
The late David Perry was a Professor of Urban Planning and Policy in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He served for nearly 12 years as Director of the Great Cities Institute at UIC and as Associate Chancellor for the university’s Great Cities Commitment.
Perry was the author or editor of eleven books, including The Global University and Urban Development: Case Studies and Analysis and Universities as Urban Developers: Case Studies and Analysis, and he produced more than 150 articles, book chapters, and reports on urban “anchor” institutions, urban and regional economic development policy, race, politics and urban violence, contested cities, public infrastructure, and the production of urban space. His work also appeared in non-academic outlets such as The New York Times, The Nation, and Metropolis magazine. In addition to his scholarly contributions, Perry was an experienced policy practitioner who worked with numerous community partners and served on national and local public boards and commissions, including Chicago’s Zoning Reform Commission, the Urban Land Institute’s National Public Infrastructure Committee, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the Rudy Bruner National Award Selection Committee, the National Task Force on Anchor Institutions, and the Strengthening Communities Strand of the Coalition of Urban Serving Universities of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities.
Professor Perry received his Ph.D. from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and went on to teach in the Government Department at the University of Texas at Austin. He later chaired the Urban Planning Program at the University at Buffalo, held the visiting Albert A. Levin Chair at Cleveland State University, and served as a senior faculty fellow at the State University of New York’s Rockefeller Institute. He was also listed as a Professor of Public Administration and Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago.