Sidney N. Brower
Professor, Planning

Office: 1230    |    Phone: 301-405-6796    |    Email

M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; B.Arch., University of Cape Town.

Professor Brower worked as an architect, and subsequently as a planner for the City of Baltimore from 1964 until 1979 when he joined the faculty of the University of Maryland. He is the author of three books: Design in Familiar Places: What Makes Home Environments Look Good (Praeger 1988); Good Neighborhoods: A Study of Intown and Suburban Residential Environments (Praeger 1996, 2000); and Designing For Communities (Center for the Study of Place, 2008). Brower is the author of numerous papers in journals, and book chapters on the subject of urban design and environment-behavior studies. He has participated in national and international conferences. His most recent paper, “ The corner store as an element of smart growth,” was presented at the Smart Growth @ 10 Conference in 2007.  He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, and Environment and Behavior.

In 1993 he received an award for Outstanding Contribution to Planning Education from the Maryland Chapter of the American Planning Association. In 1989, and again in 1995 he was visiting scholar to Peking University, in Beijing, China. In 1997 he spent six months as visiting faculty member at the University of Cape Town, South Africa; and in 2000 he was guest lecturer at the State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering in St. Petersburg, Russia. His research focuses on ways in which people's attitudes and behaviors affect and are affected by their physical surroundings, and on ways that research information can be made useful to planners and designers.

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