George Charles Galster (born 1948) is the Clarence Hilberry Professor of Urban Affairs in the Department of Urban Studies & Planning at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
George Charles Galster | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1948 (age 75–76) |
| Education | Ph.D., economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; B.S., organizational science, summa cum laude Case Western Reserve University; B.A., economics, summa cum laude, Wittenberg University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Economics, urban studies |
| Institutions | Wayne State University |
| Thesis | A bid-rent analysis of housing market discrimination (1974) |
Education
editGalster received his B.A. in economics summa cum laude from Wittenberg University, his B.S. in organizational science, also summa cum laude, from Case Western Reserve University, and his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1]
Career
editGalster joined the Urban Institute in 1993 as a principal research associate, and was its director of housing research from 1994 to 1996, when he joined Wayne State University.[1]
Research
editGalster is known for studying urban housing markets, economic segregation in American cities,[2] and housing discrimination against African Americans.[3]
Views
editGalster has been critical of the Detroit light rail program, QLINE, arguing that it will benefit property owners in the city, rather than those who are too poor to live near the Woodward Avenue corridor.[4] He has also criticized blight removal programs in Detroit for not addressing the root causes of the problem, and has compared them to "putting a Band-Aid on a wound" in this regard. He argues that the root causes of this problem include the construction of thousands of excess homes in Detroit since the 1950s due to the city's deregulated housing market.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b "George Galster Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 19 July 2016.
- ^ Cleeland, Nancy (23 July 2006). "L.A. Area Going to Extremes as the Middle Class Shrinks". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
- ^ "George Galster". Wayne State University. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
- Boger, John Charles (1996). Race, Poverty, and American Cities. University of North Carolina Press. p. 33. ISBN 9780807845783. - ^ Chakraborty, Barnini (2 August 2014). "Riding the rails: Millions at stake for Detroit's taxpayer-backed transit experiment". Fox News. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
- ^ Hackman, Rose (28 September 2014). "Detroit demolishes its ruins: 'The capitalists will take care of the rest'". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 July 2016.