Will and Nan Clarkson
Visiting Chair
The Department of Urban and Regional Planning continued its annual tradition of hosting the Clarkson Chair in Planning, a scholar-in-residence, in October, 2011. Through a week-long series of public lectures and seminars, hosted both on and off campus, Clarkson week promotes interdisciplinary scholarship on a topic of current interest, and facilitates knowledge-sharing among academicians and local planning practitioners.
Thomas L. Daniels spent the week of October 30th in Buffalo as the Department of Urban & Regional Planning’s Clarkson Chair of the academic year 2011-2012. Dr. Daniels is a Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania where he teaches and does research on Land Use Planning, Environmental Planning, Metropolitan Growth Management, and Land Preservation.
Mr. Daniels has authored numerous books, chapters, journal articles, conference papers and presentations, and professional reports on the subjects of farmland and open space preservation and planning. He is currently a member of the American Planning Association and the Land Stewardship Committee for the Lancaster County Conservancy. He is also senior contributing editor to Farmland Preservation Report, and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Orton Family Foundation.
Tom Daniels holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, in Economics from Harvard University, a Master of Science degree in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, and a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from Oregon State University. He lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
From 1989 to 1998, Tom Daniels was the Director of the Agricultural Preserve Board of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He administered a nationally-recognized farmland preservation easement acquisition program with an annual budget of over $4 million, preserved over 16,000 acres in 188 easement projects, and assisted the Planning Commission staff with growth management and agricultural zoning issues. The program received the 1993 Outstanding Program Award from the Small Town and Rural Planning Division of the American Planning Association and the 1996 National Achievement Award from the American Farmland Trust.
Previous Clarkson Chairs
- 2011 Philip Berke
- 2010 Donald Shoup
- 2008 Michael Teitz
- 2007 Michael Greenberg
- 2006 Lawrence Frank
- 2005 Peter Dreier
- 2004 Michael Kwartler
- 2004 Peter Zumthor
- 2003 Lars Lerup
- 2003 Gerrit-Jan Knaap
- 2001 Alan Artibise
- 2000 Mark Wigley
- 2000 Michael Storper
- 1999 K. Michael Hayes
- 1998 Robert Yaro
- 1996 Sanford Kwinter
- 1995 Patsy Healey
- 1994 Daniel Hoffman
- 1993 M. Christine Boyer
- 1992 Alberto Perez-Gomez
- 1991 John Forester
- 1990 Marco Frascari
The Clarkson Visiting Chair is an endowed visiting position awarded semiannually to a distinguished scholar or professional in the disciplines of architecture, planning, and design. This award is in recognition of excellence in the pursuit of scholarship and professional application within these disciplines.
