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Joan Fitzgerald

Interim Dean, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Director, Law and Public Policy Program

Director, Urban Studies Undergraduate Minor

Senior Research Fellow, Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy

Joan Fitzgerald is professor and interim dean of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and a Senior Research Fellow at the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University.

Her third book, Emerald Cities: Urban Sustainability and Economic Development (Oxford Univ. Press), examines how cities are creating economic development opportunities in several green sectors and discusses the state and national policy needed to support these efforts. Emerald Cities builds on her 2002 book, Economic Revitalization: Strategies and Cases for City and Suburb,(Sage) which identifies strategies for incorporating sustainability and social justice goals into urban economic development planning. Her 2006 book, Moving Up in the New Economy, (Cornell Univ. Press) focuses on how to build career ladders for low-income workers.

Fitzgerald has published in academic journals such as Economic Development Quarterly, Urban Affairs Quarterly, Urban Affairs and the political journal, The American Prospect. Her academic and consulting work has been supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur, Annie E. Casey, Rockefeller Brothers, Rockefeller, Surdna, Century, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundations. She has also conducted research for the U.S. Department of Labor, the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, the Boston Housing Authority and other government agencies. She is currently conducting research on eco-districts and their contribution to urban climate change planning.

Phone: (617) 373-3644 | Email: jo.fitzgerald@neu.edu |

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