George C. Homsy Assistant professor Department of Public Administration College of Community and Public Affairs Binghamton University Mailing address: Binghamton University P.O. Box 6000 Binghamton, New York, 13902-6000 Office location: Downtown University Center, Room 343 Email: ghomsy@binghamton.edu Telephone: (607) 777-9184 Education Ph.D. Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University Dissertation: Sustainability & the small city: municipal climate change action M.R.P. Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University Thesis: Land Use Planning Impacts of Moving Partial Takings from Political Theory to Legal Reality (Winner: 2004 American Planning Assoc. R. Marlin Smith Planning & Law Writing Award) B.S. Engineering Psychology, Tufts University Academic appointments Assistant Professor Department of Public Administration, Binghamton University, 2013 to present. Courses taught : PAFF 510 Research Design and Methods PAFF 569 / ENVI 481B Sustainable Communities: Theory and Practice PAFF 582 / ENVI 481A Planning Sustainable Cities and Regions Visiting Lecturer Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, Spring & Fall 2012 Courses taught : CRP 5850 Comprehensive Planning in the Sustainable City CRP 1109 Sustainability in the City Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters Homsy, G.C. (accepted) Powering Sustainability: Municipal Utilities and Local Government Policymaking. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy. Warner, M.E. & Homsy, G.C. (forthcoming 2016) Multigenerational Planning: Integrating the Needs of Children and Elders in International Perspectives on Age Friendly Cities, Frank Caro and Kelly Fitzgerald (eds). New York: Routledge. Homsy, G.C. & Warner, M. E. (2015). Cities and Sustainability: Polycentric Action and Multilevel Governance. Urban Affairs Review, 51 (1) 46-73. Homsy, G.C. & Warner, M.E. (2013) Climate Change and the Co-Production of Knowledge and Policy in Rural US Communities. Sociologia Ruralis, 54 (3) 291-310. Homsy, G.C. (2005). The Land Use Planning Impacts of Moving Partial Takings from Political Theory to Legal Reality, The Urban Lawyer, 37 (2) 269-298. Papers under review Warner, M.E., Homsy, G.C., & Morken, L. Aging America: Challenges for Planning and Service Delivery in Rural America. (R & R)
George C. Homsy C.V. page 2 of 5 Papers in progress Homsy G.C. and Abrams, G. Incentivizing Sustainability: The Success of Market-based Zoning Homsy, G.C. Unlikely Pioneers: Small City Leaders in Climate Change. Homsy, G.C. Size, status, and sustainability: variations in factors related to local climate change policymaking Homsy, G.C. Citizen Decision-making in the Sustainable City Warner, M.E., Xian, X., and Homsy, G.C. Balancing Sustainability: Economic Dev. and Environmental Protection Professional publications (selected) Homsy, G.C., Abrams G., Warner, M.E. & Monastra, V. (2015). Incentive Zoning: Understanding a Marketbased Planning Tool. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, Shared Services Project. Will be available at: http://www.mildredwarner.org/restructuring/nys Homsy, G.C & Warner, M.E. (2014). Intermunicipal Cooperation: The Growing Reform in Municipal Year Book 2014. Washington, DC: ICMA Press. Homsy, G., Qian, B., Wang, Y., & Warner, M. (2013). Shared Services in New York State: A Reform that Works. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, Shared Services Project. Available at: http://www.mildredwarner.org/restructuring/nys Homsy, G.C. & Warner, M.E. (2013) Defying the Odds: Sustainability in Small and Rural Places. Briefing paper. Washington, DC: International City County Management Association. Available at: http://icma.org/en/icma/knowledge_network/documents/kn/document/305454/defying_the_odds_sustaina bility_in_small_and_rural_places Homsy, G.C., & Warner, M.E. (2012). Off the Beaten Path: Sustainability Activities in Small Towns and Rural Municipalities in Municipal Year Book 2012 (pp. 29 37). Washington, DC: ICMA Press. Ghazaleh, R.A., Greenhouse, E., Homsy, G.C. & Warner, M. (2011) Using Smart Growth and Universal Design to Link the Needs of Children and the Aging Population Briefing Paper. Chicago: American Planning Assoc. Available at: www.planning.org/research/family/briefingpapers/multigenerational.htm. Greenhouse, E., Homsy. G.C., & Warner, M.E. (2010) Multi-generational community planning: Linking the needs of children and elders. Issue Brief. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University. Sitler, D., Rudden, M. Holzman, R. & Homsy, G.C. (May/June 2006). Town-Gown Partnerships for Success. APA Planning Advisory Service Memo (PASMemo). Chicago: American Planning Association. I have written 19 articles for the American Planning Association s Planning magazine including: Reclaiming the Hudson, April 2008 (Pollution remediation on New York s famed river) Earth, Wind, and Fire, August/September 2007 (Community-level energy & sustainability efforts) Sons of Measure 37, June 2006 (Impacts of Oregon s property rights battles) Making Great Strips Happen, December 2002 (Revitalization of strip malls) The Market Rules, November 2001 (Corporate sponsorship and ownership of public places) The Second Time Around, January 2001 (Remaking Boston after the Big Dig buries highway) Weather Report, May 2000 (Municipal efforts to fight climate change) New Lives for Old Malls, May 1999 (Efforts to turn old malls into town centers) Out of Business in Boston, February 1999 (Demise of city s adult entertainment district)
George C. Homsy C.V. page 3 of 5 General Publications and Broadcast Stories (selected) The Man Who Invented Parks (F. L. Olmsted), Old Farmer s Almanac, 2003 The Soul Behind the Seeds, Old Farmer s Almanac: Gardeners Companion, Spring 2002 Where Lightening Strikes More than Twice: Could It Be Dirty Air?, The Boston Globe, Dec. 18, 2001 Water Purifier Emerges from Basement Lab, The Boston Globe, September 18, 2001 Moribund Mall Set to Breathe New Life as Tree-lined Town Center, The Boston Globe, Jan. 17, 1999 During nine years with NPR S Living on Earth, I produced many features and documentaries including: Winds of Change in Maine, February 3, 1995 (Wind farms conflicts among environmentalists) The Trials and Tribulations of Clayoquot Sound, Sept. 17, 1993 (Forestry in western Canada) Wise-Use vs Preservation in the Adirondacks, July 10, 1992 (Land use battles in New York) Superfund, Super Slow?, July 26, 1991 (Challenges facing communities with Superfund sites) Cancer Alley: From Baton Rouge to New Orleans, May 17, 1991 (Env. justice in Louisiana) Fellowships & Research Grants Sustainable Communities Transdisciplinary Area of Excellence, Binghamton University. $7,500 (2015-2016) Neighborhood Heritage and Sustainable Communities: Devising Measures of Sustainability at the Local Level. Co-principal investigator (with Dr. Siobhan Hart, Department of Anthropology, Binghamton Univ.) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative, US Department of Agriculture. $495,168 (2014-2016) Rural Sustainability: Linking Economics and the Environment (Grant #: # 2014-68006-21834) Co-principal investigator (with Dr. Mildred E. Warner, Cornell University) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative, US Department of Agriculture. $499,094 (2012-2014) Great Recession 2.0: Fiscal Stress and Demographic Transformation: Implications for Service Delivery and Multi-generational Planning in Rural Communities (Grant #2011-68006-30793) Senior researcher (Principal investigator is Dr. Mildred E. Warner, Cornell University) Hatch and Smith-Lever program, Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station, $105,000 (2011-2014) Inter-governmental Cooperation: A Strategy for Rural New York Governments Senior researcher (Co-principal investigators are Dr. Mildred E. Warner and Dr. John Sipple.) C. Lowell Harriss Dissertation Fellowship. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. $10,000 (2011) Clarence Stein Institute for Urban and Landscape Studies Grant, Cornell University. $7,000 (2011) Cornell Population Program Fellowship, competitive tuition and stipend funding (Fall semester 2011) Cornell University Graduate School Fellowship, tuition and stipend funding (2009) Conference presentations Homsy, G.C. (2015, June 25) Incentivizing Sustainability: Exploring Market-based Zoning. American Planning Assoc. Northeast Regional Planning Conf., Saratoga Springs, New York. (Practicing planning conference) Homsy, G.C. & Abrams G. (2015, April 9) Incentivizing Sustainability: Exploring Market-based Zoning. 45 th Annual Conference of the Urban Affairs Association, Miami, Florida. Homsy, G.C. (2014, November 1) Powering Sustainability. Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
George C. Homsy C.V. page 4 of 5 Homsy, G.C. (2014, August 1) Municipal utilities: the potential to power sustainability. 77th Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, New Orleans, Louisiana. Homsy, G.C. (2014, March 20) Planning Alone: The Local Provision of Land Use, Economic Development, and other Planning Services. 44 th Annual Conference of the Urban Affairs Association, San Antonio, Texas. Homsy, G.C. & Warner, M.E. (2013, August 7) Climate Change and the Co-production of Knowledge and Policy in Rural U.S. Communities. 76 th Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, New York, New York. Warner, M.E., Homsy, G.C. & Morken, L., (2013, August 8) Aging America: Challenges for Planning and City Services in Rural America. 76 th Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, New York, New York (Warner - presenting author) Homsy, G.C. (2013, April 5) Fighting the Odds: Why Some Cities Adopt Sustainability Policies. 43 th Annual Conference of the Urban Affairs Association, San Francisco, California. Warner, M.E., Morken, L., and Homsy, G.C. (2013, April 4) Aging America: Challenges for Planning and City Services. 43 th Annual Conference of the Urban Affairs Association, San Francisco, California (Warner - presenting author) Homsy, G.C. (2012, November 1). Drivers of climate change policy action in small municipalities. Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Cincinnati, Ohio. Homsy, G.C., & Warner, M.E. (2012, April 21) Factors Influencing the Adoption of Sustainability Policies in Municipalities. 42 th Annual Conference of the Urban Affairs Association,, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Homsy, G.C. (2011, October 14). Sustainability in the Small City: Exploring Municipal Climate Change Innovation. Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Salt Lake City, Utah. Homsy, G.C. (2011, March 18). Planning Commissions: Citizen Decision-making in the Sustainable City. 41 th Annual Conference of the Urban Affairs Association, New Orleans, Louisiana. Homsy, G.C. (2007, October 20). Impacts of Regulatory Takings on Land Use Governance: Lessons from Florida s Harris Act. Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Professional Planning and Academic Awards Outstanding Planning Award for a Comprehensive Plan, American Planning Assoc., Mass. Chapter (2009) Planning to Thrive: City of Pittsfield Master Plan. R. Marlin Smith Planning & Law Writing Competition, American Planning Association (2004) George Portman research award, Dept. of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University (2004) Professional Planning Experience Senior Associate, Saratoga Associates, Inc., Saratoga Springs, New York Jan. 2005 to Dec. 2009 Project manager / senior planner (selected projects) Reweaving Troy s Urban Landscape, 14-acre downtown infill plan and form-based code, Troy, New York Planning to Thrive / City of Pittsfield Master Plan, Pittsfield, Massachusetts Building a Sustainable Future / City of Auburn Comprehensive Plan, Auburn, New York Shaping the Future Together, Joint Comprehensive Plan, Village and Town of Catskill, New York Fort Ann: A Beautiful Place at the Crossroads of a Beautiful Reading Joint Comprehensive Plan, Village and Town of Fort Ann, New York Shaping Success: Designing the Future of Queensbury, Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Revisions, Town of Queensbury, New York
George C. Homsy C.V. page 5 of 5 Other Professional Experience Freelance Journalist (2001 to 2003) Clients included: The Boston Globe, Old Farmer s Almanac and OFA Gardener s Companion, Tomorrow, Planning, National Public Radio, CBS Radio s Osgood Files, Weather Notebook Executive Producer, The Cultivated Gardener, Southborough, Mass. (1999 to 2001) Weekly, hour-long gardening program broadcast on over 60 public radio stations Co-founder and Coordinating Producer, Living on Earth, Cambridge, Mass. (1990 to 1999) Weekly environmental newsmagazine airing on over 400 National Public Radio stations Media consultant / assistant producer, Interlock Media Associates, Cambridge, Mass. (1989, 1990) Conducted training workshops, produced teacher-training and infant-nutrition programs, and designed studio facilities Katmandu, Nepal; Tegucigalpa, Honduras; and Georgetown, Guyana Research, University, and Community Service Sustainable Community Masters Degree Programming Committee, Binghamton University, 2014 to date Ethics and Integrity Committee, College of Community and Public Affairs, Binghamton University, 2014 to date Scholarship Committee, College of Community and Public Affairs, Binghamton University, 2014 Article referee: Climate Policy, Environment and Planning C, Urban Affairs Review Board of Advisors, Design Connect (student-run community workshops) Cornell Univ., August 2010 to May 2013 Curriculum Committee, Dept. of City and Regional Planning, Cornell Univ., January 2010 to December 2010 Treasurer, Cornell Association of PhD Planners, Cornell University, Jan. 2010 to Dec. 2010 Editor, Upstate Planner quarterly publication of APA New York Upstate chapter, 2005 to 2009 Board of Advisors, Metcalf Institute for Marine & Environ. Reporting, Univ. of Rhode Island, 1998 to 2002 Affiliations and certifications Urban Affairs Association (member since 2014) The Rural Sociological Society (member since 2014) Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (individual member since 2013) International City County Management Association (member since 2013) American Institute of Certified Planners (certification ongoing since 2007) American Planning Association (member since 2003)