Stephen Baxter Professor Emeritus, FAICP BA, Dartmouth B.Arch., University of Florida MRP, Ph.D., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Office:   203 New East Phone:  (919) 962-5012 Fax:      (919) 962-5206 Email:   dgod@email.unc.edu

Courses
• PLAN 725  Development Dispute Resolution


Research and Professional Activities
David R. Godschalk is a city and regional planner and a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners.
His research and publications span three planning fields: 1) Growth Management and Land Use Planning,
2) Hazard Mitigation and Coastal Management, and 3) Dispute Resolution and Public Participation.  He is a
consultant to state and local governments on growth management, coastal management, and hazard mitigation.

Dr. Godschalk is Stephen Baxter Professor Emeritus in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also is Adjunct Professor in the real estate curriculum at the
Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC, where he teaches an MBA course on site planning and design.
He holds degrees from Dartmouth College, University of Florida, and University of North Carolina.

His co-authored books include: Urban Land Use Planning (University of Illinois Press, 2006); Natural Hazard
Mitigation: Recasting Disaster Policy and Planning (Island Press, 1999); Pulling Together: A Planning and
Development Consensus Building Manual (Urban Land Institute, 1994); Catastrophic Coastal Storms: Hazard
Mitigation and Development Management (Duke University Press, 1989); Understanding Growth Management:
Critical Issues and a Research Agenda (Urban Land Institute, 1989); Land Supply Monitoring: A Guide for
Improving Public and Private Urban Development Decisions (Oelgeschlager, Gunn, and Hain, 1986); and
Constitutional Issues of Growth Management (APA Press, 1979).

Godschalk has been vice president of a Tampa consulting firm, planning director of Gainesville, Florida, and a
planning faculty member at Florida State University.  He has served as an expert witness in planning and growth
management cases and an elected member of the Chapel Hill Town Council.  He is a registered architect
(inactive) in the state of Florida.


Selected publications
• Urban Land Use Planning, 5th Edition, Philip Berke, David Godschalk, Edward Kaiser, with Daniel
  Rodríguez.  University of Illinois Press, Chicago. 2006 (in press).

• “Land Use Planning Challenges: Coping with Conflicts in Visions of Sustainable Development and Livable
  Communities,” Journal of the American Planning Association 70:1, Winter 2004.