Departmental Faculty

Christopher Campbell, PhD
Senior Lecturer Part-time, Urban Design and Planning
Director, Community, Environment, and Planning Program
Special Assistant to the Provost, Undergraduate Affairs

Biography

My research focuses on community and place-making at different scales and in different settings. I am particularly interested in the social aspects of place-making and the intersection of design, social behavior, and culture. My forthcoming book, titled Making Los Angeles: Constructing a Sense of Place Out of Ordinary Urban Space (Yale Cultural Series, Paradigm Publishers), looks at how people routinely draw upon underlying symbolic grammars to construct a sense of place in very un-place-like urban settings. I am also developing a research track in Russian urban planning and design. With Professor Frank Westerlund (UW) and Professor Irina Kukina (KSAACE), I founded and continue to run the Seattle/Krasnoyarsk Exchange Program on Urban Policy, Planning, and Education. This program promotes research and student, faculty, and professional exchanges between the University of Washington and Krasnoyarsk Academy of Architecture and Civil Engineering in Krasnoyarsk, Russia (Siberia).

Courses

• URBDP 562 Introduction to Neighborhood Planning and Community Development
• CEP 301 The Idea of Community
• CEP 303 Social Structures and Processes
• CEP 462 Community and Environment

Selected Publications

Campbell, C. August, 2006. Bridging the Divide: Modeling the Material and Ideational Elements of Place. Paper accepted for the American Sociological Association Annual Meetings. Montreal, Canada.

Campbell, C. May, 2006. Designing for the Profane: Reconsidering the Dark Side of Urban Life Urban Spaces. Paper accepted for the International Making Cities Livable Conference. Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Campbell, C. 2001. "Social structure, space, and sentiment: Searching for common ground in sociological conceptions of community," Research and Community Sociology. JAI Press, v.10: 21-57.

Campbell, Christopher D., Frederick Campbell, Lynda Goff, Wendy Katkin. 2001. "General Education Cluster Courses: Lessons form the First Five Years," Review and Recommendations Report, UCLA.

Campbell, Christopher D. and Arianne Abell. 1998. "A Qualitative Assessment of the UCLA Pilot Cluster Program." Prepared for the UCLA General Education Program, Office of the Provost, UCLA College of Letters and Sciences and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.