Alfred D. Price

Associate Professor

office : 201Q Hayes Hall
phone : 716.829.2133 ext 213
e-mail : adprice@buffalo.edu

Education

B.A. (sociology), Princeton University
M. Arch. & U.P., Princeton University

Courses

Professor Price enjoys teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses. For the past six years, he has taught a two-semester, large lecture course for the University at Buffalo: World Civilizations I & II. Professor Price has the privilege of training and supervising three graduate urban planning students who serve as teaching assistants and who are supported financially by the highest levels of fellowships awarded by the university. Professor Price also teaches an undergraduate elective course, Design of Cities. In the graduate program, he teaches the School of Architecture and Planning’s only seminar course in project finance, Financing Urban Development. In some years, Professor Price teaches Housing and Social Policy and periodically directs a section of the graduate planning studio.

Research

Professor Price’s research heavily overlaps his public service and is concerned primarily with housing for low-income households. As domestic housing policy at the federal level has changed, local governments are increasingly challenged to find new ways of responding to this challenge. Accordingly, Professor Price’s work spans investigation into site intensification schemes, creative financing mechanisms and approaches, and policy issues related to housing affordability.

Public service

Professor Price enjoys working for a public university because he believes deeply in the centrality of the public sector to the quality of our common life and because such institutions recognize service as a faculty obligation. Professor Price’s public service commitments include service on the board of directors of Downtown Neighborhood Development, Inc., Buffalo’s lead agency for housing initiatives in the central business district; and consultant to the Bethel Community Development Corporation, a not-for-profit agency sponsored by the oldest African-American religious congregation in the city.

Selected publications

  • “Bethel Neighborhood Redevelopment Plan: A Proposal for Action.” (2001). Conducted for the Board of Directors of the Bethel Community Development Corporation, Inc. Buffalo, NY: Bethel Community Development Corporation
  • “Buffalo’s New Tomato Fields: Greenhouse Crops Lead the Way” (1998). in Re-Developing Brownfields: a Different Conversation, Proceedings of the International Symposium. Waterfront Regeneration Trust, Toronto, Ont.
  • “Housing Affordability: An African-American Perspective” (1997). One-Third of a Nation, Vol. II, (L. Morris and U.J.O. Bailey, eds.) Washington, DC: Howard University Press

Selected activities, honors, awards

Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, State University of New York, 2000; Marcus Garvey Medal of Distinction (1991), conferred by the Hon. Richard Bernal, Jamaican Ambassador to the United States.