Dowell Myers, Ph.D.

is a specialist in urban growth and development with expertise as a planner and urban demographer. He specializes in temporal models for better understanding housing and urban change, and he is well known for his work on the interaction between demographics and public policy. His recent work includes substantial emphasis on immigration, and his 2007 book, Immigrants and Boomers: Forging a New Social Contract for the Future of America, has been widely recognized. In the planning field, his program of research has pursued two sustained contributions: bringing people back in as the focus of planning success, and understanding planning as a temporal process of developing the future. Recent research projects have focused on the upward mobility of immigrants to Southern California and the many changes they create in the city, as well as on projections of the future impacts of the growing California population. Professor Myers has been an academic fellow of the Urban Land Institute and a member of the Governing Board of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. He has published recent articles in the Journal of the American Planning Association, Demography, Social Science and Medicine, and International Migration Review. His research group also publishes 3-4 major reports each year on newly discovered issues in California.