Peter Dunn

PhD University of Washington
MSc London School of Economics
BA University of Virginia

Peter Dunn is a lecturer in regional planning in LARP, where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate students interested in creating better communities. He is also the Program Director and academic advisor for the B.S. in Sustainable Community Development.

Professor Dunn’s intellectual focus is at the intersection of planning and digital technologies. Specifically, he asks how such technologies are not straightforward solutions to identified problems, but are messy sites where diverse actors work through conflicting visions of desirable public life. Work from his doctoral dissertation, which investigates the idealized promise and actual use of smartphone apps for urban mobility, has been published in Urban Planning and the Journal of Urban Technology. He also served as a researcher on an NSF-funded project investigating community resilience to natural hazards. Other interests include cartography, the politics of public space, and feminist political theory. Prior to entering academia, Professor Dunn worked for Boston’s Metropolitan Area Planning Council and the International City/County Management Association.

Tuesdays 10 - 11am & Wednesdays 10 - 11am
(No appointment needed.)

Students can also make an appointment for another time at calendly.com/ptdunn

History of Sustainable Community Developoment (SUSTCOMM 232)
City Planning (SUSTCOMM / REGIONPL 574)
Sustainable Cities (REGIONPL 580)
Intro to GIS for Planning (REGIONPL 625)
Planning History & Theory (REGIONPL 651)