Justin Hollander

Justin B. Hollander is an American urban planning and design scholar. He is a professor in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tufts, a Masters in Regional Planning (2000) from the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Ph.D. (2007) degree from the E.J. Bloustein School of Policy and Planning at Rutgers.

Career Hollander studies how cities and regions manage physical change during periods of growth and decline and the cognitive, health, and social dimensions of community well-being. He is an Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Planning Education and Research and served two terms on the Governing Board of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (the US national organization of urban planning academics) and was additionally appointed to the editorial boards of urban planning and architecture journals, Planning Practice & Research, the Journal of Planning Education and Research, Architectural Science Review, Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research, and Local Development & Society. His book Cognitive Architecture won the Environmental Design Research Association national research award. He was inducted as a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners.