John I. “Hans” Gilderbloom is considered a legendary figure in urban affairs.  His finger prints are all over cities throughout the world.   He has been credited as a major player in getting legislation passed at the local, state and federal level: fair rent ordinances passed in over 100 cities, eviction control legislation, Americans Disability Act, HOPE VI, calmer streets legislation, and defending environmental protection laws.   Dr. Gilderbloom is a Professor in the Graduate Planning, Public Administration, Sustainability, and Urban Affairs program at the University of Louisville, where he also directed the highly lauded Center for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods at 30 years before it was moved to Washington D.C. with Neighborhood Associates Corporation (http://sunlouisville.org). In an international poll of thousands of Urbanists, planners and architects, Professor Gilderbloom was ranked one of the “top 100 urban thinkers in the world.”   Since earning his Ph.D., Gilderbloom’s research in urban sustainability has appeared in eight edited books, 60 scholarly peer-reviewed journals, 30 chapters in edited books, 11 monographs and 35 opinion pieces in newspapers and magazines including: Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, , Chicago Sun-Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Courier-Journal, USA Today Magazine, and is syndicated with City Lab/Bloomberg. The New York Times ran a Sunday feature of his work on renewing poor neighborhoods and ran a small opinion piece on pollution. His most recent books on stabilizing and regenerating neighborhoods came out in 2019: http://www.chromatichomes.com . He has consulted for National Geographic, Presidents (Bush, Clinton and Obama), Mayors (Jerry Abramson, Bernie Sanders), Senators (McConnell, Schumer); Governors ( Jerry Brown, Andrew Cuomo and Secretaries of Housing and Urban Development ( Cuomo, Cisneros). He has consulted with the Mayors of Moscow, Russia; Habana, Cuba; San Jose, Costa Rica, and over fifty US Mayors. He has brought in over $3.5 million dollars in federal, state and local grants and has won numerous awards including the University of Louisville medal for outstanding research and his pictured is backlit along University Avenue. He loves teaching, research, and community service at home and around the world. In January of 2020 Dr. Gilderbloom was named a Fellow at the Neighborhood Housing Associates Corporation in Washington D.C. and was invited to move his Center for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods (htttp://sunlouisville.org) to Georgetown.

Research Interests: Pollution and environmental justice, housing markets and housing policy, new urbanism, grassroots democratic capitalism

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Sociology, University of California Santa Barbara

Master of Arts, Sociology, University of California Santa Barbara

Bachelor of Arts, Sociology, University of California Santa Barbara

Courses

SUST 201: Environmental Management

PLAN 617: Housing and Community Development

PLAN 625: Historic Preservation and Sustainable Practice

PLAN 670: Sustainable Development and Planning

Recent Publications

Gilderbloom, J. H., W.L. Meares, and G.D. Squires (2020) “Pollution, place and premature death: Evidence from a midsized city.” Local Environment: International Journal of Sustainability and Justice, forthcoming https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2020.1754776

Frederick, Chad, Anna Hammersmith, and John Hans Gilderbloom (2019) “Putting “place” in its place: Comparing place-based factors in interurban analyses of life expectancy in the United States.” Social Science and Medicine. (232) 148-155.

Meares, W.L. and John I. “Hans” Gilderbloom (2019) “Exploring the Relationship Between Housing Choice Vouchers and Neighborhood Housing Dynamics in Louisville, Kentucky.” Housing and Society pages 38-54 published March 14, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1080/08882746.2019.1580943

John I. Gilderbloom (2018) Chromatic Homes: The Joy of Color in Historic Places. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky

Frederick, C. Riggs, W.W., and Gilderbloom, J. (2018) “Commute mode diversity and public health: A multivariate analysis of 148 US cities.” International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 12(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/15568318.2017.1321705