{"55726":{"#nid":"55726","#data":{"type":"profile","title":"Steven P. French","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/french-cv-1015.doc\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EClick here for Full Resume\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESteven P. French is dean of the College of Design and professor of City and Regional Planning at Georgia Institute of Technology. He joined Georgia Tech in 1992 as the director of the City Planning program and served in that position until August 1999. He was the director of the Center for Geographic Information Systems from 1997 through 2011. He served as associate dean for research for the College of Architecture (now the College of Design) from July 2009 through June 2013.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFrench\u0026rsquo;s teaching and research activities focus on sustainable urban development, land use planning, GIS applications and natural hazard risk assessment. In addition to his administrative assignments, Professor French has regularly taught graduate courses in land use, planning, and GIS. He has graduated six Ph.D. students and advised more than 50 Masters students in City and Regional Planning. He has also served on numerous dissertation committees in Architecture, Civil Engineering and Public Policy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOver the past twenty-five years, French has been the principal investigator or co-principal investigator on more than seventy research projects. He has participated in a number of National Science Foundation projects dealing with flood and earthquake hazards and was the Social Science Thrust Leader for the Mid-America Earthquake Center, a NSF Engineering Research Center. He has extensive experience in building and managing multidisciplinary teams of social scientists, architects, engineers and scientists. French is the author or co-author of more than 25 refereed journal articles and four books. He has served on the editorial boards of the \u003Cem\u003EJournal of the American Planning Association, Journal of Planning Education and Research, Journal of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association \u003C\/em\u003Eand\u003Cem\u003E Earthquake Spectra.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFrench has served on numerous Institute committees at Georgia Tech, including the conflict of interest committee, the strategic technology investment committee and the strategic plan implementation committee, where he was the liaison for the Burdell Interdisciplinary Design Center initiative. He has also chaired the College of Architecture Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure Committee and served on the Institute RP\u0026amp;T committee.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFrench holds a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before coming to Georgia Tech, he taught for ten years at California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo. In 1987-88, he served as the visiting professor of resources planning in the Civil Engineering Department at Stanford University. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners and an associate member of the American Institute of Architects.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003EEducational Background\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E1980 - Ph.D. (City and Regional Planning), University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n1973 - Master of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Colorado - Denver\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n1971 - B.A. with Honors (Economics), University of Virginia\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003EFields\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ESustainable Urban Development\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EGeographic Information System Applications\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EEarthquake and Flood Hazard Analysis and Mitigation\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EModeling Urban Development Impacts\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003Esustainable urban development; geographic information system applications; earthquake and flood hazard analysis and mitigation; modeling urban development impacts\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27369","created_gmt":"2010-05-13 16:25:36","changed_gmt":"2016-10-26 18:46:29","author":"Erin Howe","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","extras":[],"hg_media":{"352951":{"id":"352951","type":"image","title":"Steve French 2014 first choice","body":null,"created":"1449245728","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:15:28","changed":"1475895080","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:20","alt":"Steve French 2014 first choice","file":{"fid":"201997","name":"french1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/french1_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/french1_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":251867,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/french1_0.jpg?itok=d30aGGhf"}}},"media_ids":["352951"],"related_files":{"248626":{"fid":null,"name":"Jocelyn Thomas","file_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/JocelynThomasPic.jpeg","file_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/JocelynThomasPic.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":192778,"description":null},"248631":{"fid":null,"name":"Jocelyn Thomas","file_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/16x9%20cassidy.png","file_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/16x9%20cassidy.png","mime":"image\/png","size":2520190,"description":null},"248635":{"fid":null,"name":"Distinguished Alumni Awards 2022","file_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/daa-save-date-promo-logo.jpg","file_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/daa-save-date-promo-logo.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":112695,"description":null}},"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"},{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[{"id":"42061","name":"Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems"},{"id":"9582","name":"Center for Geographic Information Systems"},{"id":"9484","name":"College of Architecture"},{"id":"10318","name":"Full"},{"id":"44391","name":"PhD Advisers"},{"id":"9296","name":"School of City and Regional Planning"}],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":{"work":"4048943880"},"contact":[],"email":["steve.french@design.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}