Marc Schlossberg

University of Oregon

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

Biographical Abstracts

Marc Schlossberg is a professor of city and regional planning and co-director of the Sustainable Cities Institute (SCI) at the University of Oregon. His teaching, research, and work focus on the areas of sustainable transportation, livable community design, and processes that can accelerate implementation of more sustainable policy and practice. When he 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.

Over the past several years, Schlossberg has co-published three visual guidebooks entitled Rethinking Streets as a way to help accelerate the reduction of car dependency and the inequity and climate impacts such dependency exacerbates. As co-director of SCI, he has helped pioneer a new, massively scaled university-community partnership program that is currently being adapted on four continents. The University of Oregon’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).

Schlossberg is also a two-time Fulbright Scholar awardee and regularly leads an experiential, monthlong study-abroad course on redesigning cities for people on bikes that he created in 2011.

Areas of Expertise

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