Marie Howland, Ph.D.
Professor;Director, Ph.D. Program

Office: 1119    |    Phone: 301-405-6791    |    Email

B.A. Economics, 1972, University of California, Berkeley; M.C.P. City and Regional Planning, 1974, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D. Urban Studies and Planning 1981, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Specializations in employment, urban and regional economic planning, economic development, suburban office development, and telecommunications and urban form.

Author of From Combines to Computers: Rural Development in the Information Age, published with Amy Glasmeier, State University of New York Press. She was co-principal Investigator for a five-year grant under the U.S. Department of Education's Urban Community Service Program. This project provides financial support enabling several URSP faculty and graduate students to provide technical assistance and planning and research services to Southeast Baltimore and the Palmer Park community of Prince George's County (1995 to present).

She has received grants from the National Rural Studies Committee, the Ford Foundation through the Aspen Institute, and the International Research Exchange Board. She has served on the executive board, Association of the Collegiate Schools of Planning, editorial advisor on the Journal of the American Planning Association, associate editor for the Economic Development Quarterly, editorial advisor for the News and Views, publication of the American Planning Association's Economic Development Division. She currently has a grant from the U.S. Department of State to suppport an exhange program with the School of Architecture in St. Petersburg, Russia and a grant from the Lincoln Land Institute to study brownfields and the redevelopment of industrial areas in central city Baltimore.

Professor Howland has served on the executive board, Association of the Collegiate Schools of Planning, editorial advisor on the Journal of the American Planning Association, associate editor for the Economic Development Quarterly, editorial advisor for the News and Views, publication of the American Planning Association's Economic Development Division.