W Dennis Keating, Ph.D.
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 Title: Professor & Dir of MUPDD Progr
 Dept: Urban Studies
 Office: UR 318
 Phone: 216-687-2298
 Email: W.KEATING@csuohio.edu
 Address: 2121 Euclid Ave. UR 318, Cleveland, OH 44115

Courses Taught

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Vitae


Education:
Ph.D., City and Regional Planning, University of California at Berkeley, 1978
J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1968
 
Brief Bio:
Dennis Keating is a Levin College Distinguished Professor. He holds a joint faculty appointment in the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. He is Director of the MUPDD Program. He formerly served as Chair of the Department of Urban Studies, Director of the Office of Student Services, Acting Director of several graduate programs, and Associate Dean of the College of Urban Affairs. Dr. Keating is currently President of the Housing and Built Environment Research Council of the International Sociological Association. He teaches courses on housing, neighborhood development, urban planning, and land use law. In the Fall, 2008 semester he taught a new course on the Housing Foreclosure Crisis (Neighborhood Development) and spoke about this on a panel at the 2009 annual conference of the Urban Affairs Association. He has published widely in these fields. He co-authored a chapter in A Right to Housing (Temple University Press, 2006). His latest publication was a 2008 co-authored article on the First Suburbs Consortium of Greater Cleveland in Housing Policy Debate. In November, 2008, he was a featured speaker at the Ohio conference on "The Future of Fair Housing". In Fall, 2003, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow.
 
Honors and Awards:
He is a Levin College Distinguished Scholar.
 
Teaching Areas:
Introduction to Planning, Planning/Land Use Law, Housing Policy, Housing Law, Neighborhood Development
 
Professional Affiliations:
American Planning Association (Law Division), Progressive Planners, Cuyahoga Affordable Housing Alliance
 
University Service:
CSU: Currently, UPRC.
Levin College: Chair, Academic Standards Committee, Advisory Committee, Center for Civic Education
 
Professional Service:
Currently, President, Research Council on Housing and the Built Environment, International Sociological Association.