Biography : Allan Wallis

Allan Wallis is associate professor of public policy at the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado in Denver, where he directs the Ph.D. program the program in local government. His principal areas of research are regional governance and growth management. For the last four years he has been working on an evaluation of regionalism in South Florida for the MacArthur Foundation. He is also a consultant to the Foundation in the development of a strategic plan to guide its grant making in the area of regionalism.

For eight years, Dr. Wallis was director of research for the National Civic League. During that time he authored the series of articles--Reinventing Regionalism—which appeared in the National Civic Review. He recently completed, with Doug Porter, the monograph—Ad Hoc Regionalism—published by the Lincoln Land Institute. He is also author of the book, Wheel Estate: the Rise and Decline of Mobile Homes, published by Oxford University Press and Johns Hopkins University Press.

Professor Wallis holds a Ph.D. in environmental psychology from the City University of New York, a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University, and a Bachelors of Architecture from the Cooper Union. He has taught architecture at the University of Colorado and at Ball State University. He has also taught urban design and town planning at Pratt Institute and at the Cooper Union.