
Marc Schlossberg
2024
University of Oregon
Professor, Planning, Public Policy and Management
Co-Director, Sustainable Cities Institute (SCI)
https://blogs.uoregon.edu/schlossb/

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