Uwe Brandes Receives Distinguished Educator Award

The Board of Governors of Lambda Alpha International Land Economics Society (LAI) has chosen Prof. Uwe S. Brandes of Georgetown University as the 2022 recipient of its Richard T. Ely Distinguished Educator Award.  This award is presented biennially from nominations submitted by LAI's 33 local chapters around the world and recognizes distinction by educators in the field of land economics and its related disciplines. 

 

LAI was founded in 1930 at Northwestern University by students of Professor Richard T. Ely whose contributions to the study of land economics and ethics have been particularly notable.  This award is a tribute to LAI's academic roots and expresses its commitment to continuing that legacy.  LAI presented the award to Prof. Brandes at its semi-annual Land Economics meeting in Los Angeles on October 14th, 2022.

 

The award recognizes Brandes' academic leadership as the founding director of the Masters Program in Urban & Regional Planning at Georgetown University, the Georgetown Global Cities Initiative as well as formation of the Georgetown Place Leadership Project, a community-based participatory research project studying the leadership and management of urban spaces in the metropolitan Washington, DC region.  The award states: "His manifest contributions to turban leadership echo the ethos of Professor Ely."

 

"This is an extraordinary honor for me," commented Brandes, "I would like to thank the Board of Governors of the LAI Land Economics Society for this important distinction.  This is an affirmation of the interdisciplinary study of urban development and the education of the next generation of city-builders."  

 

Uwe Brandes is Professor of the Practice in Urban & Regional Planning at Georgetown University, where he directs the masters program in Urban Planning and serves as the faculty director of the university-wide Georgetown Global Cities Initiative.  A scholar-practitioner, Brandes has combined teaching and research with professional practice throughout his career. 

 

Among his achievements are the development of the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative in Washington, D.C.; the formation of the research program in climate change at the Urban Land Institute and his work at Georgetown.  Outside of his University duties, Brandes serves as chair of the District of Columbia Commission on Climate Change & Resiliency. 

 

For more information on the Lambda Alpha International Land Economics Society, see here. 

 

For more information on the Georgetown Urban & Regional Planning Program, see here. 

 

For more information on the Georgetown Global Cities Initiative, see here.