June 15, 2004 APA Scholarly Journal Selects Georgia Tech Professor as New Editor WASHINGTON, DC — David S. Sawicki, FAICP, a city and regional planning professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, will become the new editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA) July 1. He succeeds Deborah Howe, FAICP, Carl Abbott, and Sy Adler, who have been co-editors of the quarterly publication since July 1998. "I am extremely pleased to welcome David as JAPA's editor-designate," said Paul Farmer, AICP, executive director of the American Planning Association (APA), which publishes the journal. "He brings exceptional qualifications to the position given his outstanding academic career." After earning his Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University in 1971, Sawicki began teaching at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He created a graduate planning program and then became its first chair in 1974. He remained at the university until 1983 when he joined the faculty at Georgia Tech's College of Architecture. He was director of the City and Regional Planning Program at Georgia Tech from 1983 to 1992 and continues today as a professor with both that program and with the School of Public Policy at the Institute's Ivan Allen College. This is not Sawicki's first post with JAPA, APA's planning journal of record. He has been JAPA's Review Editor (1976-1978), Planner's Notebook Editor (1983-1985), and a member of the editorial advisory board twice, from 1981 to 1985 and from 1985 to 1994. He has been on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Planning Education and Research twice also, from 1981 to 1985 and from 1995 to the present. Widely published, with more than 20 JAPA entries alone, his research has focused on demographic and economic analysis, forecasting, data analysis and micro-computing in planning. He is co-author with Carl Patton, FAICP, of the textbook Basic Methods in Policy Analysis and Planning, considered one of the profession's standard references. Sawicki has served also as president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, the organization of 80 planning schools with more than 800 planning faculty. He recently received several honors, including the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning/Fannie Mae Foundation Award for Best Conference Paper on Housing and Community Development (2001); and Georgia Tech's College of Architecture Distinguished Professor (1996), and Best Teacher Awards (2004). JAPA and its predecessor editions date back to 1915. It has been published under the current name since 1979, when the American Institute of Planners and American Society of Planning Officials were consolidated as the American Planning Association. Earlier this year the JAPA was recognized with a 2004 bronze award for general excellence from the Society of National Association Publications. Contact |
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