Academy of Community Engagement Scholarship (ACES)

Marc Schlossberg

Inducted in
2024

University of Oregon

Professor, Planning, Public Policy and Management

Co-Director, Sustainable Cities Institute (SCI)

https://blogs.uoregon.edu/schlossb/

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Biographical Abstracts

I am a Professor of City and Regional Planning and co-director of the Sustainable Cities Institute (SCI) at the University of Oregon.  I teach, research, and apply my work in the areas of  sustainable transportation, livable community design, and the processes that can accelerate implementation of more sustainable policy and practice.  When I decided to enter academia, it was with the express purpose to find ways of leveraging university capacity to help advance community-based social-good efforts. It is gratifying that my career has followed that path.

Over the last several years, I have co-published three visual guidebooks on Rethinking Streets as a way to help accelerate the reduction of car dependency and the inequity and climate impacts such dependency exasperates.  As Co-Director of SCI, I have helped pioneer a new, massively scaled university-community partnership program that is currently being adapted on four continents; the UO's program is the Sustainable City Year Program and the international network of programs are part of the Educational Partnership for Innovation in Communities Network (EPIC-N).

I am also two-time Fulbright Scholar awardee and regularly lead an experiential, monthlong study abroad course on redesigning cities for people on bike that I created in 2011.

Areas of Expertise

  • Designing cities for cycling
  • University-community partnerships
  • Sustainable city design