Christopher A. De Sousa
Associate Professor
Office: Bolton Hall 496
Phone: 414-229-4874
Fax: 414-229-3981
e-mail: desousa@uwm.edu
Curriculum Vitae: pdf (107kb)
Mailing Address:
Professor Christopher De Sousa
Department of Geography
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413
Education:
Ph.D., Geography, University of Toronto, 2000
M.Sc.Pl., Program in Planning, University of Toronto, 1996
B.A., Environment and Resource Management, Geography, University of Toronto, 1994
Courses Taught:
Geog 464: Environmental Problems
Geog 720: Urban Development Theory for Planning -
Syllabus (41 kb)
Urb Plan 684: Planning Local Economic Development
Office Hours:
TR 1:00-2:00pm, also by appointment
Research and Teaching Interests:
Brownfield Redevelopment
Urban Environmental Management/Ecology
Resource Conservation
Green Building Development
Representative Publications:
De Sousa, C., Wu, C. and L. Westphal. 2009. "Assessing the Effect of Publicly Supported Brownfield Redevelopment on Surrounding Property Values." Economic Development Quarterly 23(2): 95-110.
De Sousa, C. 2008. "Brownfields Redevelopment in Canada: Moving from Liability to Opportunity." In A. Abdel-Aziz and N. Chalifour (eds.) Canadian Brownfields Manual (Markham, Ontario: LexisNexis Canada Press 2004-2008, 2-1 to 2-29).
De Sousa, C. 2008. Brownfields Redevelopment and the Quest for Sustainability. (London: Elsevier Science/Emerald Group Publishing, Current Issues in Urban and Regional Studies Series, Volume 4).
Evaluating Progress Toward Sustainable Development in Milwaukee's Menomonee River Valley: Linking Brownfields Redevelopment with Community Quality of Life (with B. Gramling and K. LeMoine), In J. Sirgy, D. Rahtz, and R. Phillips (eds.) Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases III. (Blacksburgh, Virginia: International Society for Quality of Life Studies: 81-101), 2007.
Unearthing the Benefits of Brownfield to Green Space Projects: An examination of project use and quality of life impacts, Local Environment, 11(5), 2006, pp. 577-600.
Green Futures for Industrial Brownfields. In: The Humane Metropolis: People and Nature in the 21st-Century City, edited by R. Platt, University of Massachusetts Press (in association with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy), Amherst, MA, 2006, pp. 154-168.
Urban Brownfields Redevelopment in Canada: the role of local government, The Canadian Geographer 50(3), 2006, pp. 392-407.