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John
Adams
Professor Emeritus
Currently reviewing Ph.D. applicants
Expertise
Department
Urban and Regional Planning Area
Areas of Expertise
Housing finance and markets; housing policy; land use; local, state and regional economic development policy; urban planning; urban sprawl
    About

    John S. Adams is professor emeritus at the Humphrey School and in the University of Minnesota geography department. He researches issues relating to North American cities, urban housing markets and housing policy, and regional economic development in the United States and the former Soviet Union. He has been a National Science Foundation Research Fellow at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development, University of California at Berkeley, and economic geographer in residence at the Bank of America world headquarters in San Francisco.

    Adams was senior Fulbright Lecturer at the Institute for Raumordnung at the Economic University in Vienna and was on the geography faculty of Moscow State University. He has taught at Pennsylvania State University, the University of Washington, and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. His most recent book, Minneapolis-St. Paul: People, Place, and Public Life, looks at the region's growth and at what factors may affect the metropolitan area's future.

    Adams holds a doctorate in urban geography from the University of Minnesota and two degrees in economics.