Joel Rast
Professor & Director of Urban Studies
Bolton Hall 626
Degrees
PhD, University of Oregon
BA, University of California at Santa Cruz
Courses Taught
- PolSci 213 – Urban Government and Politics
- PolSci 216 – Environmental Politics
- Urb Std/PolSci 913 – Urban Political Process
- Urb Std 921 – Research Methods in Urban Studies
Teaching Interests
Urban Development/Redevelopment since World War II
Urban Politics
Environmental Politics
The Politics of Climate Change
Other Relevant Activities
Director, Urban Studies Programs
Director, Center for Economic Development
Selected Publications
Rast, Joel S. “Urban Political Development and the Social Construction of Interests: The Case of Chicago’s Dearborn Park” Urban Affairs Review 58.5 (2022): 1207-1233.
Rast, Joel S. The Origins of the Dual City: Housing, Race, and Redevelopment in Twentieth-Century Chicago Univerity of Chicago Press. 2019.
Rast, Joel S. “Urban Regime Theory and the Problem of Change” Urban Affairs Review 51.1 (2015): 138-149.
Rast, Joel S. “Why History (Still) Matters: Time and Temporality in Urban Political Analysis” Urban Affairs Review 48.1 Ed. Clarke, Susan, and Pagano, Michael. (2012): 3-36.
Rast, Joel S. “Critical Junctures, Long-Term Processes: Urban Redevelopment in Chicago and Milwaukee, 1946-1980” Social Science History 33.4 (2009): 393-426.
Rast, Joel S. “Regime Building, Institution Building: Urban Renewal Policy in Chicago, 1946-1962” Journal of Urban Affairs 31.2 (2009): 173-194.
Rast, Joel S. “Annexation Policy in Milwaukee: An Historical Institutionalist Approach” Polity 39. (2007): 55-78.
Rast, Joel S. “Environmental Justice and the New Regionalism” Journal of Planning Education and Research 25.3 (2006): 249-263.
Rast, Joel S. “Governing the Regimeless City: The Frank Zeidler Administration in Milwaukee, 1948-1960” Urban Affairs Review 42. (2006): 81-112.
Rast, Joel S. Remaking Chicago: The Political Origins of Urban Industrial Change DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press. 1999.