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- CV
Joel Rast
- Professor, Political Science
- Director, Urban Studies
- Director, Center for Economic Development
Education
Ph.D, University of Oregon
B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz
Office Hours
On Sabbatical
Courses Taught
- POL SCI 213 - Urban Government and Politics
- POL SCI 216 - Environmental Politics
- URB STD/POL SCI 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
Selected Publications
Rast, Joel. 2022. “Urban Political Development and the Social Construction of Interests: The Case of Chicago's Dearborn Park” Urban Affairs Review 58.5: 1207-1233.
Rast, Joel. 2019. The Origins of the Dual City: Housing, Race, and Redevelopment in Twentieth-Century Chicago University of Chicago Press.
Rast, Joel. 2015. “Urban Regime Theory and the Problem of Change” Urban Affairs Review 51.1: 138-149.
Rast, Joel. 2012. “Why History (Still) Matters: Time and Temporality in Urban Political Analysis” Urban Affairs Review 48.1: 3-36.
Rast, Joel. 2009. “Critical Junctures, Long-Term Processes: Urban Redevelopment in Chicago and Milwaukee, 1946-1980” Social Science History 33.4: 393-426.
Rast, Joel. 2009. “Regime Building, Institution Building: Urban Renewal Policy in Chicago, 1946-1962” Journal of Urban Affairs 31.2: 173-194.
Rast, Joel. 2007. “Annexation Policy in Milwaukee: An Historical Institutionalist Approach” Polity 39: 55-78.
Rast, Joel. 2006. “Environmental Justice and the New Regionalism” Journal of Planning Education and Research 25.3: 249-263.
Rast, Joel. 2006. “Governing the Regimeless City: The Frank Zeidler Administration in Milwaukee, 1948-1960” Urban Affairs Review 42: 81-112.
Rast, Joel. 1999. Remaking Chicago: The Political Origins of Urban Industrial Change DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press.